 | René Wellek - 1981 - Страниц: 378
...close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This is a fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate; for...always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time and place." Johnson has been widely admired for this type of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1908 - Страниц: 256
...wicked ; •, he carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples...cannot extenuate ; / • for it is always a writer's duty_to make the wqrld^ better, and justice is a virtue independant on time or \ . place. The plots... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - Страниц: 676
...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... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - Страниц: 298
...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 It will be thought strange that, in enumerating the... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - Страниц: 585
...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 independant on time or place. The plots are often so loosely formed that a very... | |
 | Kevin Hart - 1999 - Страниц: 254
...care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance'. There is no point appealing to moral relativism, 'this fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate;...always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent of time or place' (Yale, v1I, 71). To weigh Shakespeare's merits against... | |
 | Carl Darryl Malmgren - 2001 - Страниц: 228
...[Shakespeare] 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. —Samuel Johnson, "Preface to Shakespeare" In Conan... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2008 - Страниц: 380
...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... | |
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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... 
