| Hugh Blair - 1811 - 400 páginas
...against him" self, by endeavouring to corrupt and disfigure " his creatures. If the comedies ofCongreve did " not rack him with remorse in his last moments,...virtue." Vol. II. 479. I AM happy, however, to have it in rtiy powef to observe, that, of late years, a sensible reformation has begun to take place in English... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1815 - 582 páginas
...country ; employing the talents which they have received from their Maker most traitorously against himself, by endeavouring to corrupt and disfigure...have been lost to all sense of virtue." Vol. II. 479. 1 am happy, however, to have it in my power to observe, that of late years, a sensible reformation... | |
| John Styles - 1815 - 254 páginas
...through their country; employing the talents they have from their Maker most traiterously against him, by endeavouring to corrupt and disfigure his creatures!...moments, he must have been lost to all sense of virtue!" The testimony of Cumberland, a writer of plays, much more moral and decent than most of his contemporaries... | |
| Louis Simond - 1815 - 442 páginas
...without morals, and without delicacy. We have, finally, the opinion of Lord Kaimes, who observes, that, if the comedies of Congreve did not rack him with...moments, he must have been lost to all sense of virtue. For myself, however, I must confess, that I have Hitherto seen no very bad morals on the stage, —... | |
| Louis Simond - 1815 - 408 páginas
...without morals, and without delicacy. We have, finally, the opinion of Lord Kaimes, who observes, that if the comedies of Congreve did not rack him with...moments, he must have been lost to all sense of virtue. For myself, however, I must confess, that I have hitherto seen no very bad morals on the stage,—... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1816 - 428 páginas
...ought writers to be who thus employ the talents they have from their Maker most traitorously against himself, by endeavouring to corrupt and disfigure...moments, he must have been lost to all sense of virtue. Nor will it afford any excuse to such writers, that their comedies are entertaining ; unless it could... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1816 - 514 páginas
...without morals, and without delicacy. We have, finally, the opinion of Lord Kaimes, who observes, that if the comedies of Congreve did not rack him with...moments, he must have been lost to all sense of virtue. ' For myself, however, I must confess, that I have hitherto seen no very bad morals on the stage —... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1817 - 516 páginas
...country ; employing the talents which they have received from their Maker most traitorously against himself, by endeavouring to corrupt and disfigure...If the comedies of Congreve did not rack him with remorae, in his last moments, he must have been lost to all sense of virtue.' Vol. II. 479. I am happy,... | |
| Franklin James Didier - 1822 - 218 páginas
...talents which they have received from their Maker, most traitorously against himself, by attempting to corrupt and disfigure his creatures. If the comedies...moments, he must have been lost to all sense of virtue." What page of u The Woman of Pleasure" could be more beastly than Act. 1, Sc. 1. of Murphy's Way to... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1823 - 418 páginas
...they have from their Maker most traitorously against himself, by endeavouring to corrupt and disfiguie his creatures ! If the comedies of Congreve did not...moments, he must have been lost to all sense of virtue. Nor will it afford any excuse to such writers, that their comedies are entertaining : unless it could... | |
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