 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 cannot extenuate, for it is always a writer's duty...  Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces - Page 107by Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 375 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 pages
...the wicked ; he carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples...always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place. The plots are often so loosely formed, that a very... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 492 pages
...the wicked; he carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples...always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place. The plots are often so loosely formed, that a very... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 514 pages
...the wicked; he carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples...always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place. The plots are often so loosely formed, that a very... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 624 pages
...his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without farther care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance....always, a writer's duty to make the world better ; and justice is a virtueindependent on time, or place. ' The plots are often so loosely formed, that a very... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 616 pages
...his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without farther care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance....always, a writer's duty to make the world better ; and justice is a. virtwc independent on time, or place. ' The plots are often so loosely formed, that a... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1817 - 350 pages
...the wicked ; he carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples...always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place. The plots are often so loosely formed, that a very... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 420 pages
...the wicked; he carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples...barbarity of his age cannot extenuate ; for it is alwaya a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place.... | |
 | 1828 - 454 pages
...through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their example to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate, for it it a miter'i duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time and place."... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 450 pages
...the wicked; he carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and~at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples...always a writer's ' duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place. The plots are often so loosely formed, that a very... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 486 pages
..." — who " carries his persons incjift'erently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance." As little probable is it, in my apprehension, that he departed on any settled principles from the mythological... | |
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