 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
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 544 pages
...wicked : be carries his persons indifferently througb 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 the age cannot extenuate; for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 548 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 to operate by chance. This fault the harharity of the age cannot extenuate; for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and... | |
 | Ireland - 1828 - 410 pages
...wicked. He " carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and, at the close; " dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples...is always a writer's duty to make the world better than he found it." It looks rather hard to try a writer by the authority of a tribunal to which he... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1832 - 364 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 virtue independent on time or place. The plots are often so loosely formed, that a very... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1833 - 1140 pages
...the wicked; he carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the dose dismisses ,(! 1 j ustice is a virtue independent on time or place. The plots are often so loosely formed, that a ray... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 570 pages
...without further care, and leaves iln-ir examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of the Mar-text, But, Audrey, there is a youth here in the forest lays cl tlie world bel|er, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place."' Why- this commonplace on... | |
 | British and foreign young men's society - 1837 - 556 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." * Preface to Shakspeare. We have just adverted to... | |
 | David M'Nicoll - 1837 - 688 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."* Our author's conception of a reformed stage may... | |
 | Samuel Astley Dunham - Authors, English - 1837 - 418 pages
...because the design of his plot would be frustrated without it. " This fault," as a critic observes, " the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate ; for it...always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place." Where this high moral is not inculcated, — where... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 790 pages
...thewicked ; he carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses and there they live like the old Robin Hood of England : they say, many yonng justice is a virtue independent on time or place. The plots arc often so loosely formed, that a very... | |
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