 He sacrifices virtue to convenience, and is so much more careful to please than to instruct, that he seems to write without any moral purpose. From his writings indeed a system of social duty may be selected...  The Young men's magazine - Stran 49avtor: British and foreign young men's society - 1837Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Hermann Ulrici - 1876 - 572 strani
...reproaches against Shakspeare which are more or less unfounded. His chief fault is said to be that ' he sacrifices virtue to convenience, and is so much...but his precepts and axioms drop casually from him . . . His plots are often so loosely formed that a very slight consideration may improve them, and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1878 - 750 strani
...which sets candor higher than truth. His first defect is that to which may be imputed most of the evil in books or In men: he sacrifices virtue to convenience,...precepts and axioms drop casually from him; he makes no just distribution of good or evil, nor is always careful to show in the virtuous a disapprobation of... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1880 - 182 strani
...to instruct ;' the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing. Hence, his criticism of Shakespeare : ' He sacrifices virtue to convenience, and is so much...that he seems to write without any moral purpose. . . . His precepts and axioms drop casually from him ; he makes no just distribution of good or evil... | |
 | 1881 - 672 strani
...[didactic. Let us listen to Johnson. ' His first defect is that to which may be imputed most of the evil in books or in men. He sacrifices virtue to convenience,...precepts and axioms drop casually from him ; he makes no just distribution of good or evil, nor is always careful to shew in the virtuous a disapprobation of... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 strani
...to instruct.' The end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing ; hence his criticism of Shakespeare: 1 He sacrifices virtue to convenience, and is so much...that he seems to write without any moral purpose. . . . His precepts and axioms drop casually from him; ho makes no just distribution of good or evil,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1882 - 996 strani
...a system of social duty may be selected, for he Shakspeare found it an incumbrance, and instead of S - W0#X : Խ &} ] 4 38yR H: ` :d 2 p...d| r g ` B |d m k% # { 66Y just distribution casually of good or evil, nor is always careful to shew in the virtuous a disapprobation... | |
 | George Wilkes - 1882 - 512 strani
...sufficient to obscure and overwhelm any other merit"; that he sacrifices virtue to convenience, and is BO much more careful to please than to instruct that he seems to write without any moral purpose; that he makes no just distribution of good and evil, nor is always careful to show, in the virtuous,... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1134 strani
...'is to instruct.' The end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing ; hence his criticism of Shakespeare: s only to mark emotions. He is never in want of a...To his eye, all objects, the smallest and most fami writ* without any moral purpose. . . . His precepts and axioms drop casually from him; he makes no... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1890 - 730 strani
...which sets candour higher than truth. His first defect is that to which may be imputed most of the evil in books or in men. He sacrifices virtue to convenience,...precepts and axioms drop casually from him ; he makes no just distribution of good or evil, nor is always careful to show in the virtuous a disapprobation of... | |
 | Thomas William White - 1892 - 326 strani
...Johnson says, " He sacrifices virtue to convenience, and is much more careful to please than instruct. From his writings, indeed, a system of social duty...precepts and axioms drop casually from him; he makes no just distribution of good or evil" (p. xxxviii). He writes, in fact, as immoral men generally act,... | |
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