 | 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 - 674 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 honour ; the wise and the pious caught the alarm ; and the nation wondered why it had so long suffered... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 532 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...licentiousness to be openly taught at the public charge. » Notwithstanding the justice of this description, there is a strange mixture of sense and nonsense... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 526 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...licentiousness to be openly taught at the public charge.» Notwithstanding the justice of this description, there is a strange mixture of sense and nonsense in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 446 pages
...the living writers, from Dryden to D'TJrfey. His onset was violent; those passages, which, while they stood single had passed with little notice, when they...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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 564 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...licentiousness to be openly taught at the public charge." Notwithstanding the justice of* this description, there is a strange mixture of sense and nonsense... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1829 - 344 pages
...the living writers, from Drydento Durfey. 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." Notwithstanding the justice of this description, there is a strange mixture of sense and nonsense in... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 516 pages
...living writers, from Dryden to Durfey. 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." Notwithstanding' the justice of this description, there is a strange mixture of sense and nonsense... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 pages
...the living writers, from Dryden to D'Urfev. His onset was violent ; those passages, which, while they stood single, had passed with little notice, when...suffered irreligion and licentiousness to be openly taucht at the public charge. Nothing now remained for the poets but to resist or fly. Dryden's conscience,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 486 pages
...Durfey. His onset was violent : those passages, which, while they stood single had passed with lit lie notice*. •when they were accumulated and exposed...licentiousness to be openly taught at the public charge." Notwithstanding the justice of this description, there is a strange mixture of sense and nonsense in... | |
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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... 
