...romances, are extremely immoral in their tone and tendency. Lord Kames says of Congreve, " If his comedies did not rack him with remorse in his last moments, he must have been lost to all sense of virtue." J 4. The press is still more criminally abused, when it is turned to the disparagement, misrepresentation,...

...through their country ; employing the talents they have from their Maker most traitorously 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...

...Congreve and Farquhar, is so manifestly immoral, that of the former Lord Kames, with much force, observed, •If the comedies of Congreve did not rack him with...in his last moments, he must have been- lost to all •ense of virtue.' Of late years, a reformation has gradually taken place in English comedy. Our writers...

...they have received from their Maker most traitorously against Himself, by endeavouring to corrupt and rack him with remorse in his last moments, he must have been disfigure his creatures. If the Comedies of Congreve did not lost to all sense of virtue." Vol. II....

...received from their Maker • Polvbitw. Lib 4. rap. 3. most traitorously against himself, by endeavoring to corrupt and disfigure his creatures ! If the comedies...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...

...with all his irreligion and licentiousness—Congreve, of whom Lord Kames has said, " If his comedies did not rack him with remorse in his last moments, he must have been lost to all sense of virtue." This man became the champion of the stage, and entered the lists against Collier, but he found in him...

...endeavoring to corrupt p.nd dis figure his creatures! If the comedies of Congreve did not rack nim with remorse in his last moments, he must have been lost to all sense of virtue. Nor will it afford any excuse to such writers, thai their comedies are entertaining; unless it could...

...Congreve's. Lord Kames has justly, though severely, said of them, " that if they did not rack their author with remorse in his last moments, he must have been lost to all sense of virtue." They roused Collier to his indignant attack upon the English stage, — an attack which Congreve attempted,...

...thus employ the talents they have from their Maker most traitorously against himself, by endeavoring to corrupt and disfigure his crea-tures ! If the comedies...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...

...against himself, by endeavoring to corrupt and disfigure his creatures ! If the comedies of Cougreve did not rack him with remorse in his last 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...