 | John Styles - 1807 - 216 páginas
...dramatic pieces of the present day — " It is acknowledged with universal conviction, that the perusal of his works will make no man better, and that their ultimate eil'ect is to represent pleasure in alliance with vice, and to relax those obligations by which life... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 582 páginas
...his plays must always be condemned. It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that the perusal of his works will make no man better ; and that their ultimate effect is to represent pleasure in alliance with vice, and to relax those obligations by which life ought to be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 422 páginas
...his plays must always be condemned. It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that the perusal of his works will make no man better ; and that their ultimate effect is to represent pleasure in alliance with vice, and to relax those obligations by which life ought to be... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 596 páginas
...play» must always be condemned. It is acknowledged, with universal conriction, that the perusal of hie works will make no man better; and that their ultimate effect is to represent pleasure in alliance with vice, and to relax those obligations by which life ought to be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 378 páginas
...his plays must always be condemned. It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that the perusal of his works will make no man better ; and that their ultimate effect is to represent pleasure in alliance with vice, and to relax those obligations by which life ought to be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 380 páginas
...plays must always be condemned. It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that the perusal of Lis works will make no man better ; and that their ultimate effect is to represent pleasure in alliance with vice, and to relax those obligations by which life ought to be... | |
 | James Plumptre - 1812 - 552 páginas
...plays must always be condemned. It is acknowledged, " with- universal conviction, that the perusal of his works " will make no man better ; and that their ultimate effect "- is to represent pleasure in alliance with vice, and to " relax those obligations by which life ought to be... | |
 | John Styles - 1815 - 254 páginas
...dramatic pieces of the present day — " It is acknowledged with universal conviction, that the perusal of his works will make no man better, and that their ultimate effect is to represent pleasure in alliance with vice, and to relax those obligations by which life ought to be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 504 páginas
...his plays must always be condemned. It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that the perusal of his works will make no man better ; and that their ultimate effect is to represent pleasure in alliance with vice, and to relax those obligations by which life ought to be... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 390 páginas
...acknowledged, when speaking of certainly not the worst dramatic writer of his age, ' that the perusal of his works will make no man better; and that their ultimate effect is to represent pleasure in alliance with vice ; and to relax those obligations by which life ought to be... | |
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The cause of Congreve was not tenable; whatever glosses he might use for the defence or palliation of single passages, the general tenour and tendency of his plays must always be condemned. It is acknowledged, with universal conviction, that the perusal... 
