 | George Hogarth - 1851 - 398 pages
...concentrated and brought all at once before their eyes. " The wise and the pious," says Dr. Johnson, " caught the alarm ; and the nation wondered why it...licentiousness to be openly taught at the public charge." Dryden, to his honour, admitted the justice of the accusation against himself. " I shall say the less... | |
 | 1851 - 838 pages
...little no« tice, when they were accumulated and exposed together, excited horror ; and the wise and pious caught the alarm, and the nation wondered why...had so long suffered irreligion and licentiousness tç be openly taught at the public charge." Collier did good ; the unwarrantable liberties indulged... | |
 | University magazine - 1851 - 796 pages
...Collier," says Dr. Johnson, in his life of Congreve, " was violent; those passages, which, while they stood single, had passed with little notice, when...were accumulated and exposed together, excited horror ; and the wise and pious caught the alarm, and the nation wondered why it had so long suffered irreligion... | |
 | 1851 - 778 pages
...Collier," says Dr. Johnson, in his life of Congreve, " was violent ; those passages, which, while they stood single, had passed with little notice, when...were accumulated and exposed together, excited horror ; and the wise and pious caught the alarm, and the nation wondered why it had so long suffered irreligion... | |
 | Jeremy Collier - 1852 - 618 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, angry... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 504 pages
...the living writers, from Dryden to Durfey. His outset 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 - 1854 - 344 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...licentiousness to be openly taught at the public charge. versy is to retort upon his adversary his own words ; he is very angry, and, hoping to conquer Collier... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 484 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. 1070—1728-9. HIS CONTROVERSY WITH COLLIER.... | |
 | 1856 - 410 pages
...than religions zeal and honest indignation. His onset was violent. Those passages, which, while they stood single, had passed with little notice, when...caught the alarm, and the nation wondered why it had suffered irreligion and licentiousness to be "openly taught at the public charge." (Life of Congreve.)... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 818 pages
...the livmg writers, from Dryden to Durfey. His outset was violent : those passages which while they stood single had passed with little notice, when they...alarm, and the nation wondered why it had so long suti'ered irreligion and licentiousness to be openly taught at the public charge. Nothing now remained... | |
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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... 
