 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 598 pages
...single had passed with little notice, when they were accumulated and exposed together, excited horrour; the wise and the pious caught the alarm; and the nation wondered why it had so long suflered irreligion and licentiousness to be openly taught at the public charge. Nothing now remained... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 378 pages
...the living writers, from Drydento D'Urfey. His onset was violent; those passages, which while they stood single had passed with little notice, when they...caught the alarm ; and the nation wondered why it hail so long suffered irreligion and licentiousness to be openly taught at the public charge. Nothing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 380 pages
...exposed together, excited horror ; the .*dse and the pious*taught the alarm ; and the nation t ondored why it had so long suffered irreligion and licentiousness to be openly taught at the public charge. Nothing now remained for the poets but to resist or fly. Dryden's conscience, or his prudence, angry... | |
 | James Plumptre - 1812 - 552 pages
...the living writers " from Dryden to Durfey. His onset was violent; those " passages, which while they stood single had passed " with little notice, when...licentiousness " to be openly taught at the public charge. " Nothing now remained for the poets but to resist *' or fly. Dryden's conscience, or his prudence,... | |
 | John Witherspoon - 1812 - 214 pages
...and pointed ; with wit in the " single, had passed with little notice, when they were accumu" lated and exposed together, excited horror ; the wise and...caught the alarm; and the nation wondered why it had " suffered irreligion and licentiousness to be openly taught at the " public charge." Lijeaf Congreve.... | |
 | John Styles - 1815 - 254 pages
...Collier's attack on the Stage, Johnson remarks, " His onset was violent; those passages which, while they stood single, had passed with little notice, when...licentiousness to be openly taught at the public charge." Lord Kaimes, referring to the age of Collier, has ventured the following observations, and they are... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 504 pages
...the living writers, from Dryden to D'Urfey. His onset was violent; those passages, which while they stood single had passed with little notice, when they...irreligion and licentiousness to be openly taught at the publick charge. Nothing now remained for the poets but to resist or fly. Dryden's conscience, or his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1819 - 376 pages
...the living writers, from Dryden to D'Urfey. His onset was violent ; those passages, which while they stood single had passed with little notice, when,...exposed together, excited horror; the wise and the pious canglit the alarm ; anil the nation wondered why it had so long suffered irreligion and licentiousness... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 416 pages
...the living writers, from Dryden to D'Urfey. His onset was violent ; those passages, which 'while they stood single had passed with little notice, when they...licentiousness to be openly taught at the public charge. Nothing now remained for the poets but to resist or fly. Dryden's conscience, or his prudence, angry... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 426 pages
...the living writers, from Dryden to D'Urfey. His onset was violent ; those passages, which while they stood single had passed with little notice, when they...Wondered why it had so long suffered irreligion and licen* tiousness to be openly taught at the public charge. Nothing now remained for the poets but to... | |
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His onset was violent: those passages which while they stood single had passed with little notice, when they were accumulated and exposed together, excited horror; the wise and the pious caught the alarm, and the nation wondered why it had so long suffered... 
