 | Thomas Charlton Henry - Amusements - 1825 - 200 pages
...in spreading that character. How odious ought writers to be, who thus employ the talents they have from their Maker most traitorously against himself,...corrupt and disfigure his creatures ! If the comedies of Coagreve did not rack him with remorse in his last moments, he must have been lost to all sense of... | |
 | 1822 - 608 pages
...through their native country, employing the talents' which they have received from thehr'Maker mc*t traitorously against himself, by endeavouring to corrupt and disfigure his creatures'! If the coaiedfe* ot Congreve did not rack him with remorse, in his last moments; "He1 must have been 'lost... | |
 | Charles Putt - Jurisprudence - 1830 - 496 pages
...Husband, and the odious productions of those writers, " who have employed the talents they have received from their Maker most traitorously against himself,...endeavouring to corrupt and disfigure his creatures/'* are performed with impunity. If he considers what is properly the duty of his office, it will inform... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - English language - 1832 - 378 pages
...the former Lord Kames, with much force, observed, 'If the comedies of Congreve did not rack him frith remorse, in his last moments, he must have been lost to all sense of virtue.' Of late years, a reformation has gradually taken place in English comedy. Our writers of comedy now... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1833 - 654 pages
...thus spread infection through their native country, employing the talents which they have received from their Maker most traitorously against himself,...moments, he must have been lost to all sense of virtue.' Vol.11. 479. For this reformation, we are, questionless, much indebted to the French theatre, which... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1833 - 518 pages
...received from their Maker * Polybius, Lib. 4. cap. 3. most traitorously against himself, by endeavoring to corrupt and disfigure his creatures ! If the comedies...moments, he must have been lost to all sense of virtue. Nor will it afford any excuse to such writers, that their comedies are entertaining ; unless it could... | |
 | Theology - 1833 - 422 pages
...Sir Walter Scott, in the department of fiction ? " If the comedies of Congreve," said Lord Kames, " did not rack him with remorse in his last moments, he must have been lost to all sense of virtue." The remark admits of very extensive application. Not to dwell longer upon a theme, which is painfully... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Theology - 1833 - 892 pages
...Sir Walter Scott, in the department of fiction ? " If jhe comedies of Congreve," said Lord Kames, " did not rack him with remorse in his last moments, he must have T)een lost to all sense of virtue." The remark admits of very extensive application. Not to dwell longer... | |
 | Englishmen - 1835 - 476 pages
...Congreve's. Lord Kames has justly, though severely, said of them, " that if they did not rack their author with remorse in his last moments, he must have been lost to all sense of virtue." They roused Collier to his indignant attack upon the English stage, — an attack which Congreve attempted,... | |
 | Jasper Adams - Christian ethics - 1837 - 554 pages
...romances, are extremely immoral in their tone and tendency. Lord Kames says of Congreve, " If his comedies did not rack him with remorse in his last moments, he must have been lost to all sense of virtue." J 4. The press is still more criminally abused, when it is turned to the disparagement, misrepresentation,... | |
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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 the comedies of Congreve did not rack him with remorse in his last moments,... 
