 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...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...obligations by which life ought to be regulated.' Ib. viii. 28. He would not quote Dr. Clarke, much as he admired him, because he was not sound upon... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...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...obligations by which life ought to be regulated.' Ib. viii. 28. He would not quote Dr. Clarke, much as he admired him, because he was not sound upon... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 670 pages
...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...modest, and Collier lived to see the reward of his labours in the reformation of the theatre." thoughts, and took all the liberties both of numbers and... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pages
...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...modest, and Collier lived to see the reward of his labours in the reformation of the theatre." thoughts, and took all the liberties both of numbers and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...acknowledged, with universal conviction, that the perusal of his warks will make no man better; and that their ultimate effect is to represent pleasure in alliance...those obligations by which life ought to be regulated. *rhcstige found other advocates, and the dispute was protracted through ten years ; but at last Comedy... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1803 - 496 pages
...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...those obligations by which life ought to be regulated *." If it was the purpose of the first ESSAYISTS to detach the public from political controversy, and... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...•with universal Conviction, that the perusal of his works will make no man better j and that their ultimate effect is to represent pleasure in alliance...obligations by which life ought to be regulated. The stige found other advocates, and the dispute was protracted through ' ten years ; but at last Comedy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 pages
...the side of their brother poets—- The opposition was fierce, and continued for a long time until at last Comedy grew more modest, and Collier lived...reward of his labour in the reformation of the theatre. Congreve's last play was " The Way of the World," which, although written with great labour and much... | |
 | John Styles - Theater - 1807 - 216 pages
...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...obligations by which life ought to be regulated." I would by no means be thought to institute a comparison between the plays of Congreve and those of... | |
 | John Styles - Theater - 1807 - 216 pages
...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 Co 9 those obligations by which life ought to be regulated." I would by no means be thought to institute... | |
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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 regulated. 
