 | British and foreign young men's society - 1837 - 556 pages
...Criticism, vol. ii., p. 479. ;heir native country ; employing the ;alents which they have received 'rom their Maker most traitorously against himself, by...endeavouring to corrupt and disfigure his creatures. [f the comedies of Congreve did not rack him with remorse in his last moments, he must have been lost... | |
 | John Styles - Theater - 1838 - 224 pages
...through their country ; employing the talents they have from their Maker most traitorously against him, by endeavouring to corrupt and disfigure his creatures...moments, he must have been lost to all sense of virtue !" The testimony of Cumberland, a writer of plays much more moral and decent than most of his contemporaries... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - English language - 1838 - 372 pages
...Congreve and Farquhar, is so manifestly immoral, that of the former Lord Kames, with much force, observed, •If the comedies of Congreve did not rack him with...in his last moments, he must have been- lost to all •ense of virtue.' Of late years, a reformation has gradually taken place in English comedy. Our writers... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1845 - 638 pages
...thus spread infection through their native country; employing the talents which they have received from their Maker most traitorously against Himself, by endeavouring to corrupt and rack him with remorse in his last moments, he must have been disfigure his creatures. If the Comedies... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1847 - 516 pages
...received from their Maker • Polvbitw. Lib 4. rap. 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... | |
 | John Keefe Robinson - 1850 - 162 pages
...with all his irreligion and licentiousness—Congreve, of whom Lord Kames has said, " If his comedies did not rack him with remorse in his last moments, he must have been lost to all sense of virtue." This man became the champion of the stage, and entered the lists against Collier, but he found in him... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1853 - 506 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,... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1853 - 542 pages
...endeavoring to corrupt p.nd dis figure his creatures! If the comedies of Congreve did not rack nim with remorse in his last moments, he must have been lost to all sense of virtue. Nor will it afford any excuse to such writers, thai their comedies are entertaining; unless it could... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1859 - 512 pages
...thus employ the talents they have from their Maker most traitorously against himself, by endeavoring to corrupt and disfigure his crea-tures ! 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... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - Criticism - 1859 - 512 pages
...against himself, by endeavoring to corrupt and disfigure his creatures ! If the comedies of Cougreve did not rack him with remorse in his last 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... | |
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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,... 
