 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 - Página 49por British and foreign young men's society - 1837Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Hermann Ulrici - 1895 - 578 páginas
...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... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1899 - 728 páginas
...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, and is so much more careful tojaleas.? than tojnstruct, that he seems to write without any moral purpose. From his writings, indeed,... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 462 páginas
...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... | |
 | Thomas R. Lounsbury - 1901 - 510 páginas
...Shakespeare, according to Johnson, sacrifices virtue to convenience, and is so much more solicitous to please than to instruct, that he seems to write without any moral purpose. His precepts and axioms drop from him casually. He carries his personages indifferently through right... | |
 | Thomas R. Lounsbury - 1901 - 494 páginas
...Shakespeare, according to Johnson, sacrifices virtue to convenience, and is so much more solicitous to please than to instruct, that he seems to write without any moral purpose. His precepts and axioms drop from him casually. He carries his personages indifferently through right... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 434 páginas
...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 shew in the virtuous a disapprobation of... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1903 - 642 páginas
...seriousness, which Johnson declared to be wanting in Shakespeare. Shakespeare sacrifices [says the moralist] virtue to convenience, and is so much more careful...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... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 450 páginas
...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, and is so much more careful to j>lease ^thanto instruct, that he seems to write without any moral purpose. From his writings indeed... | |
 | Jean Jules Jusserand - 1904 - 1014 páginas
...Stratford en 1769, qui exas1. (i His lirst defect is that to which inay bc imputed most of thé evil in books or in men. He sacrifices virtue to convenience and is so much mortcareful to please tban to inslruct, that he seems to write without any inoral purpose ». On sail... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1905 - 422 páginas
...sets candor higher than truth. 20 His first defect is that to which may be imputed most of the evil in books or in men. He sacrifices virtue to convenience,...writings, indeed, a system of social duty may be selected, 25 for he that thinks reasonably must think morally: but his precepts and axioms drop casually from... | |
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