 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 328 pages
...publick feems to judge rightly of the faults and excellencies of this play, that it is the work of a man not attentive to decency, nor zealous for virtue ;...one who conceived forcibly, and drew originally, by confulting nature in his own breaft. Together with thofe plays he wrote the poems which are in this... | |
 | samuel johnson - 1779 - 342 pages
...publick feems to judge rightly of the faults and excellencies of this play, that it is the work of a man not attentive to decency, nor zealous for virtue ;...one who conceived forcibly, and drew originally, by confulting. nature in his own breaft. Together with thofe plays he wrote the poems which are in this... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 498 pages
...publick feems to judge rightly of the faults and excellencies of this play, that it is the work of a man not attentive to decency, nor zealous for virtue ;...one who conceived forcibly, and drew originally, by confulting nature in his own breafh Together with thofe plays he wrote the poems which are in the late... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...publick feems to judge rightly of the faults and excellences of this play, that it is the work of a man not attentive to decency, nor zealous for virtue;...one who conceived forcibly, and drew originally, by confulting nature in his own breaft. Together with thofe plays he wrote the poems which are in the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...publick feems to judge rightly of the faults and excellences of this play, that it is the work of a man not attentive to decency, nor zealous for virtue;...one who conceived forcibly, and drew originally, by confulting nature in his own breaft. Together with thofe plays he wrote the poems which are in the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...publick feems to judge rightly of the faults and excellencies of this play, that it is the work of a man not attentive to decency, nor zealous for virtue;...one who conceived forcibly, and drew originally, by confulting nature in his own breaft. Together with rhofe plays he wrote the poems which are in the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1795 - 610 pages
...thofe plays he wrote the poems which are in this collection, and tranflated from the French the Hiflory of the Triumvirate. All this was performed before...years old; for he died April 14, 1685, in a manner which I am unwilling to mention. Having been compelled by his neceffities to contract debts, and hunted,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...publick seems to judge rightly of the faults and excellencies of this play* that it is the work of a man not attentive to decency, nor zealous for virtue ;...Together with those plays he wrote the poems which are in the present collection, and translated from the French the History of the Triumvirali. All this... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pages
...publick feems to judge rightly of the faults and excellences of this play, that it is the work of a man not attentive to decency, nor zealous for virtue;...one who conceived forcibly, and drew originally, by confulting nature in his own breaft. Together with thofe plays he wrote the poems which are in the... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...excellencies of this play, that is it the work of a man not attentive to decency, nor zealous for virtue ; hut of one who conceived forcibly, and drew originally,...Together with those plays he wrote the poems which are in the present collection, and translated from the French the History of the Triumvirate. All this... | |
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The striking passages are in every mouth ; and the publick seems to judge rightly of the faults and excellences of this play, that it is the work of a man not attentive to decency, nor zealous for virtue ; but of one who conceived forcibly, and drew originally,... 
