 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 430 pages
...those passages, which, while they stood single, had passed with little notice, when they VOL. II. O were accumulated and exposed together, excited horror...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 - 1821 - 428 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...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 - 1821 - 434 pages
...those passages, which, while they stood single, had passed with little notice, when they VOL. II. O were accumulated and exposed together, excited horror...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, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 452 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, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 446 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... | |
 | Martin Lister - 1823 - 220 pages
...the English stage." His onset was violent ; those passages, which, while they stood single, attracted little notice, when they were accumulated, and exposed together, excited horror ; the wise and pious caught the alarm, and the nation wondered why it had so long suffered irreligion and licentiousness... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 438 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...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 suffered... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 pages
...confidence in his cause. notice, when they were accumulated and exposed together, excited horrour ; the wise and the pious caught the alarm; and the nation...irreligion and licentiousness to be openly taught at the publick charge. Nothing now remained for the poets but to resist or flv. Dryden's conscience, or his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 520 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 were accumulated and exposed together, excited horrour; the wise and the pious caught the alarm ; and the nation wondered why it had so long suffered... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 524 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 were- accumulated and -exposed together, excited horrour ; the wise and the pious caught the alarm; and the nation wondered why it had so long suffered... | |
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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... 
