 Lovelace ; but he has excelled his original in the moral effect of the fiction. Lothario, with gaiety which cannot be hated, and bravery which cannot be despised, retains too much of the spectator's kindness. It was in the power of Richardson alone to...  The General Biographical Dictionary - Page 197edited by - 1816Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 664 pages
...••or esteem and detestation, to make virtuous resentment over-power all the benewoMBVi which wit, elegance, and courage, naturally excite; and to lose at last the hero m the villain. The fifth act is not equal to the former; the events of the drama are exhausted, mtt... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 380 pages
...despised, retains too much of the spectator's kindness. It was in the power of Richardson alone to ti ach us at once esteem and detestation, to make virtuous...resentment overpower all the benevolence which wit, elegance, and courage, naturally excite ; and to lose at last the hero in the villain. The fifth act... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 378 pages
...despised, retains too much of the spectator's kindness. It was in the power of Richardson alone to *'ach us at once esteem and detestation, to make virtuous...resentment overpower all the benevolence which wit, elegance, and courage, naturally excite ; and to lose at last the hero in the viilain. The fifth act... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 418 pages
...cannot be hated, and bravery which cannot be despised, retains too much of the spectator's kindness. It was in the power of Richardson alone to teach us at...naturally excite; and to lose- at last the hero in the villain. The fifth act is not equal to the former; the events of the drama are exhausted, and little... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 422 pages
...cannot be hated, and bravery which cannot be despised, retains too much of the spectator's kindness. It was in the power of Richardson alone to teach us at...naturally excite ; and to lose at last the hero in the villain. The fifth act is not equal to theformer ; the events of the drama are exhausted, and little... | |
 | Aristotle, Thomas Twining - 1812 - 516 pages
...hated and despised." [Dr. Johnson. Note at the end «if Othello.} —Not so, Shakspeare's Richard. " and detestation, to make virtuous resentment " overpower...naturally excite, and to " lose at last the hero in the villain V NOTE 261. P. 202. OR AS CONTRARY TO TECHNICAL ACCURACY. — ILxfK tu» окотят«, trí»... | |
 | John Nichols - 1812 - 758 pages
...bravery which cannot be despised, retains too much of the spectator's kindness. It was in the PI.HMT of Richardson alone to teach us at once esteem and...which wit, and elegance, and courage, naturally excite ; ami to In-c at last the hero in the villain." * Mrs Sheridan, on publishing the " Memoirs of Miss... | |
 | James Plumptre - 1812 - 480 pages
...cannot be hated, and bravery which cannot bedespised, " retains too much of the spectator's kindness. It was " in the power of Richardson alone to teach us...resentment " over-power all the benevolence which wit, elegance, " and courage, naturally excite; and to lose at last the " hero in the villain." p. 62. In... | |
 | John Colin Dunlop - 1814 - 450 pages
...cannot be hated, and bravery which cannot be despised, retains too much of the spectator's kindness. It was in the power of Richardson alone to teach us at...virtuous resentment overpower all the benevolence which art and elegance and courage naturally excite ; and to lose at last the hero in the villain." But though... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1814 - 718 pages
...cannot be hated, and bravery which cannot be despised, retains too much of the spectator's kindness. It was in the power of Richardson alone, to teach us...virtuous resentment overpower all the benevolence which art and elegance and courage naturally excite ; and to lose, at last, the hero in the villain.' In... | |
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