 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1765 - 578 pages
...their country, employing the talents they have from their Maker mofl traitoroufly againft himfelf, by endeavouring to corrupt and disfigure his creatures...If the comedies of Congreve did not rack him with remorfe in his laft >.. moments, he muft have been loft to all fenfe of virtue. Nor will it afford... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1788 - 548 pages
...writers to be who thus employ the talents they have from their Maker moft traitoroufly againft himfelf, by endeavouring to corrupt and disfigure his creatures...If the comedies of Congreve did not rack him with remorfe in his laft moments, he muft have been loft to all fenfe of virtue. Nor will it afford any... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1800 - 458 pages
...they have from their Maker moil traitoroufly againft himfelf, by endeavouring to corrupt and dis gure his creatures ! If the comedies of Congreve did not rack him with remorfe in his lail moments, he muft have been lo I to all fenfe of virtue. Nor will it afford any... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1802 - 414 pages
...Congreve did not rack him with remorfe, in his laft*' moments, he mull have been loft to all fenfe of virtue.'*' Vol. II. 479, I am happy, however, to have it in my power to obferve,. that of late years, a fenfible reformation has begun to take place in Ehglifli comedy. We... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - Society of Friends - 1806 - 390 pages
...ought writers to be who thus employ the talents they hare from their maker most traitorously against himself, by endeavouring to corrupt and disfigure...moments, he must have been lost to all sense of virtue." ; » • SECT. IV, The theatre forbidden—because injurious to the happiness of man by disqualifying... | |
 | John Styles - Theater - 1807 - 216 pages
...traiterously against him, by endeavouring to corrupt and disfigure his creatures! If the Come-' H dies of Congreve did not rack him with remorse in his last...moments, he must have been lost to all sense of virtue! The testimony of Cumberland, a writer of plays, much more moral and decent than most of his contemporaries... | |
 | John Styles - Theater - 1807 - 216 pages
...traiterously against him, by endeavouring to corrupt and disfigure his creatures! If the Come1dies of Congreve did not rack him with remorse in his last...moments, he must have been lost to all sense of virtue ! The testimony -of Cumberland, a writer of plays, much more moral and decent than most of his contemporaries... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - Society of Friends - 1808 - 340 pages
...ought writers to be, who thus employ the talents they have from their Maker most traitorously against himself, by endeavouring to corrupt and disfigure...If the comedies of Congreve did not rack him with remoi se in his last moments, he must have been lost to all scrsc cf virtue." SECTION IV. The theatre... | |
 | James Plumptre - Theater - 1809 - 318 pages
...country, employing the talents, •which they have received from their Maker, most traitorously against Himself, by endeavouring to corrupt and disfigure...moments, he- must have been lost to all sense of virtue." (quoted also in Blair's Lectures, vol. iii. p. 380. The whole passage in Blair is worth reading.) We... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1809 - 400 pages
...employ*' ing the talents which they have received from " their Maker ,moft traitoroufly againft Himfelf^ " by endeavouring to corrupt and disfigure his *' creatures....the Comedies of Congreve did *' not rack him with remorfe in his laft moments, <' he muft have been loft to all fenfe of virtue." Vol. IL 479. I AM happy,... | |
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Townly, rather than the cold, the sober, though virtuous Lady Grace ? How odious ought writers to be who thus employ the talents they have from their Maker most traitorously against himself, by endeavouring to corrupt and disfigure his creatures ! If... 
