 | William Shakespeare - 1765 - 652 pages
...naturally love juftice, I cannot eafily be perfuaded, that the obfervation of juilice makes a play worfe ; or, that if other excellencies are equal, the audience will not always rife betterpleafed from the final triumph of perfecuted virtue. In the prcfent -cafe the publick has... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1773 - 514 pages
...naturally love juftice, I cannot eafily be perfuaded, that the obfervation of juftice makes a play worfe ; or, that if other excellencies are equal, the audience will not always rife better pleafed from the final triumph of perfecuted virtue. In the prefent cafe the public has... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1785 - 632 pages
...naturally love juilice, I cannot eafily be perfuaded, that the obfervation of juftice makes a play worfe ; or, that if other excellencies are equal, the audience will not always rife better pleated from the final triumph of perfecuted virtue. In the prefcnt cafe the public has... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 500 pages
...naturally love juftice, I cannot eafily be perfuaded, that the obfervation of juftice makes a play worfe ; or, that if other excellencies are equal, the audience will not always rife better pleafed from the final triumph of perfecuted virtue. In the prefent cafe the publick has... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1790 - 722 pages
...naturally love juftice, I cannot eafily lie perfuaded, that the obfervation of juftice maket a play worfe ; or, that if other excellencies are equal, the audience will not always rife tetter pleafed from the final triumph of perfccuted virtue. In the prefent cafe the publick has... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1798 - 446 pages
...naturally love juftice, I cannot eafiiy be pcrfuaded, that the obfervation of juftice makes, a play wnrfe ; or, that if other excellencies are equal, the audience will not always rife better pleafed from the final triumph of perfccuted virtue. In the prefent cafe the public has... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1800 - 396 pages
...and abominable criticism, and that endeavours had been used to discredit and decry poetical justice. A play in which the wicked prosper, and the virtuous...persuaded, that the observation of justice makes a worse; or, that if other excellencies are equal, the audience will not always rise better pleased from... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 454 pages
...naturally love juftice, I cannot eafily be perfuadeci.that the obfervation of juftice makes a play worfe ; or, that if other excellencies are equal, the audience will not always rife better pleafed from the final triumph of perfecuted virtue. In In the prefent cafe the publick... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1804 - 642 pages
...and abominable criticising and that endeavours had been used to discredit and decry poetical justice. A play in which the wicked prosper, and the virtuous...the observation of justice makes a play worse ; or tliat, if other excellencies are equal, the audience will not always rise better pleased from the final... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 356 pages
...and abominable criticism, and that endeavours had been used to discredit and decry poetical justice. A play in which the wicked prosper, and the virtuous...persuaded, that the observation of justice makes a VOL. XIII. C play worse; or, that if other excellencies are equal, the audience will not always rise... | |
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A play, in which the wicked prosper and the virtuous miscarry, may doubtless be good, because it is a just representation of the common events of human life: but since all reasonable beings naturally love justice, I cannot easily be persuaded, that the... 
