 | William Shakespeare - 1838
...them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity o. I will help you to't But tell me true, are you...Believe me, I am not ; I tell thee true. Clo. Nay, I arc often so loosely formed, that a very slight consideration may Improve them, and so carelessly pursued,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839
...them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate ; for it is always a writer's...justice is a virtue independent on time or place. Shakespeare with his excellencies has likewise faults, and faults sufficient to obscure and overwhelm... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839
...without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of the age cannot extenuate ; for it is always a writer's...justice is a virtue independent on time or place." Why this common-place on justice should be compelled into the station in which we here most strangely... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847
...without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of the age cannot extenuate ; for it is always a writer's...justice is a virtue independent on time or place/' Why this commonplace on justice should be compelled into the station in which we here most strangely... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1850
...without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of the age cannot extenuate ; for it is always a writer's...justice is a virtue independent on time or place." Why this common-place on justice should be compelled into the station in which we here most strangely... | |
 | 1850
...without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of the age cannot extenuate ; for it is always a writer's...justice is a virtue independent on time or place." Why this common-place on justice should be compelled into the station in which we here most strangely... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1851 - 160 sidor
...sacrifices virtue to convenience, and seems to write without any moral purpose, even the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate ; for it is always a writer's...better, and justice is a virtue independent on time and place. Preface to Shakspeare. Many causes may vitiate a writer's judgment of his own works. On... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1853 - 160 sidor
...sacrifices virtue to convenience, and seems to write without any moral purpose, even the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate ; for it is always a writer's...better, and justice is a virtue independent on time and place. Preface to Shakspeare. Many causes may vitiate a writer's judgment of his own works. On... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857
...them without farther care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate ; for it is always a writer's duty to mane the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place. The plots are often so... | |
 | 1868
...and falls to berating Shakespeare. " Shakespeare's plots," he says, "are often so loosely designed, that a very slight consideration may improve them,...and so carelessly pursued that he seems not always fullv to understand his own design." For example, (for the test of the meaning and the truth of general... | |
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... in the virtuous a disapprobation of the wicked ; he carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age... 
