 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 248 pages
...purpofe, and is therefore not likely to do good ; nor can it be conceived, .without more fpeculation than life requires or admits, to be productive of much! evil. . Highwaymen and houfc* breaker&feldom frequent the playhoufe, of mingle in any elegant diverfion ; nor is it poffible... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 474 pages
...purpofe, and is therefore not likely to do good ; nor can it be conceived, without more fpeculation than life requires or admits, to be productive of much evil. Highwaymen and houfe-breakers feldom frequent the playhoufe, or mingle in any elegant diverfiorj; nor is it poffible... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 pages
...purpofe, and is therefore not likely to do good; nor can it be conceived, without more fpeeulation than life requires or admits, to be productive of much evil. Highwaymen and houfe-breakers feldom frequent the play-houfe, or mingle in any elegant diverfion ; nor is it poffible... | |
 | John Gay - Fables - 1793 - 356 pages
...purpofe, and is therefore not likely to do good ; nor can it be conceived, without more fpeculation than life requires or admits, to be productive of much evil. Highwaymen and houfe-breakers feldom frequent the playhoufe, or mingle in any elegant diverfion ; nor is it poffible... | |
 | John Gay - 1796 - 284 pages
...written only to divert, without any moral purpose, and is therefore not likely to do good ; nor can it be conceived, without more speculation than life requires...safety, because he sees MACHEATH reprieved upon the stage. This objection however, or some other rather political than moral, obtained such prevalence,... | |
 | John Gay - English poetry - 1799 - 250 pages
...moral purpofe, and is therefore not likely u do good; nor can it be conceived, without more fpeculation than life requires or admits , to be productive of much evil. Highwaymen and houfe-breakers feldom frequent the playhoufe, or mingle in any elegant diverfion; nor is it poltible... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...be productive of much evil. Hi way men and house-breakers seldom frequent the play-house, or mingle any elegant diversion ; nor is it possible for any one to imagine that he rob with safety, because he sees Macheath reprieved upon the str.ge. This objection however^ or some... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 536 pages
...purpofe, and is therefore not likely to do good ; nor can it be conceived, without more fpeculation than life requires or admits, to be productive of much evil. Highwaymen and houfe-breakers feldom frequent the play-houfe, or mingle in any elegant diverfion ; nor is it poflible... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 424 pages
...purpofe, and is therefore not likely to do good ; nor can it be conceived, withouttnore fpeculation than life requires or admits, to Be productive of much evil. Highwaymen and houfe-breakers feldom frequent the play-houfe, or mingle in any elegant diverfion ; nor is it poffible... | |
 | William Cook - Actors - 1804 - 468 pages
...written only to divert, without any moral purpose, and is therefore not likely to do good ; nor can it be conceived, without more speculation than life requires...imagine that he may rob with safety because he sees JMacheath reprieved upoa the stage." With great deference to Dr. Johnson's general merits, \ye believe... | |
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Opera the gangs of robbers were evidently multiplied. Both these decisions are surely exaggerated. The play, like many others, was plainly written only to divert, without any moral purpose, and is therefore not likely to do good; nor can it be conceived,... 
