 | Puerto Rico. Department of Education - 1916 - 148 pages
...impenetrable. A genius is a headland into the infinite. — -Victor Hugo. THE DEFECTS OF SHAKESPEARE His first defect is that to which may be imputed most...that he seems to write without any moral purpose. Prom his writings, indeed, a system of social duty may he selected, for he that thinks reasonably must... | |
 | Octavius Francis Christie - 1924 - 296 pages
...piety." 2 And thus he criticizes Shakespeare : " His first defect is that to which may be imputed most of evil in books or in men. He sacrifices virtue to convenience,...that he seems to write without any moral purpose." 3 And be it noted that Fielding, too, makes the same claim for Tom Jones in his dedication to Lord... | |
 | 1909 - 498 pages
...pretensions to renown; and little regard is due to that bigotry which sets candour higher than truth. His first defect is that to which may be imputed most...moral purpose. From his writings indeed a system of social duty may be selected, for he that thinks reasonably must think morally; but his precepts and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1908 - 256 pages
...pretensions to renown ; and little regard is due to that bigotry which sets candour higher than truth. His first defect is that to which may be imputed most...virtue to convenience, and is so much more careful to glease than to PREFACE 21 without any moral purpose. From his writings indeed «, a^system of social... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 298 pages
...pretensions to renown; and little regard is due to that bigotry which sets candor higher than truth. His first defect is that to which may be imputed most...moral purpose. From his writings indeed a system of social duty may be selected, for he that thinks reasonably must think morally; but his precepts and... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pages
...pretensions to renown; and little regard is due to that bigotry which sets candour1 higher than truth. His first defect is that to which may be imputed most...is so much more careful to please than to instruct 2 'Analogy': '1. Resemblance between things with regard to some circumstances or effects'; 3. 'By grammarians,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2008 - 380 pages
...pretensions to renown; and little regard is due to that bigotry which sets candor higher than truth. His first defect is that to which may be imputed most...moral purpose. From his writings indeed a system of social duty may be selected, for he that thinks reasonably must think morally; but his precepts and... | |
 | 1887 - 638 pages
...excellencies has likewise faults, and faults sufficient to obscure and overwhelm any other merit. . . . His first defect is that to which may be imputed most...that he seems to write without any moral purpose. . . . The plots are often so loosely formed that a very slight consideration may improve them," &c.... | |
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His first defect is that to which may be imputed most of the evil in books or in men. He sacrifices virtue to convenience, and is so much more careful to please than to instruct, that he seems to write without any moral purpose. From his writings indeed... 
