 A play in which the wicked prosper, and the virtuous miscarry, may doubtless be good, because it is a just representation of the common events of human life : but since all reasonable beings naturally love justice, I cannot easily be persuaded, that the...  The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare - Page 545by William Shakespeare - 1826Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Henry Butcher - 1911 - 474 pages
...prosper, and the virtuous miscarry, may doubtless be good, because it is a just representation of the events of human life : but since all reasonable beings...observation of justice makes a play worse ; or that if other excellences are equal, the audience will not always rise the better pleased for the triumph of persecuted... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1919 - 346 pages
...faith of chronicles. ... A play in which the wicked prosper, and the virtuous miscarry, may doubtless be good, because it is a just representation of the...pleased from the final triumph of persecuted virtue. man tottering about the stage with a walking-stick, turned out of doors by his daughters in a rainy... | |
 | Percy Hazen Houston - 1923 - 346 pages
...the ancients. To quote: "A play in which the wicked prosper, and the virtuous miscarry, may doubtless be good, because it is a just representation of the...observation of justice makes a play worse; or, that if other excellences are equal, the audience will not always rise better pleased from the final triumph of virtue."... | |
 | University of Wisconsin - 1923 - 594 pages
...lost half its beauty. ... A play in which the wicked prosper, and the virtuous miscarry, may doubtless be good, because it is a just representation of the...persuaded, that the observation of justice makes a play '"Edition (176»), VI, 158. "•It may be observed that in his adverse criticism of the play Johnson... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1908 - 256 pages
...decry poetical justice. A play in which the wicked prosper, and the virtuous miscarry, may doubtless be good, because it is a just representation of the...pleased from the final triumph of persecuted virtue. many years ago shocked by Cordelia's death, that I know not whether I ever endured to read again the... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...long note on King Lear: A play in which the wicked prosper, and the virtuous miscarry, may doubtless be good, because it is a just representation of the...easily be persuaded that the observation of justice malces a play worse; or that, if other excellencies are equal, the audience will not always rise better... | |
 | Michael E. Mooney - 1990 - 260 pages
...faith of chronicles. ... A play in which the wicked prosper, and the virtuous miscarry, may doubtless be good, because it is a just representation of the...observation of justice makes a play worse; or, that if the other excellencies are equal, the audience will not always rise better pleased from the final triumph... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 298 pages
...decry poetical justice."12 A play in which the wicked prosper, and the virtuous miscarry, may doubtless be good, because it is a just representation of the...reasonable beings naturally love justice, I cannot be easily persuaded that the observation of justice makes a play worse <Sl/I99>; or, that if other... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pages
...decry poetical justice. A play in which the wicked prosper, and the virtuous miscarry, may doubtless be good because it is a just representation of the...triumph of persecuted virtue. In the present case the publick has decided. Cordelia, from the time of Tate, has always retired with victory and felicity.... | |
 | Jean I. Marsden - 1995 - 214 pages
...his note on King Lear. "A play in which the wicked prosper, and the virtuous miscarry, may doubtless be good, because it is a just representation of the...pleased from the final triumph of persecuted virtue" (704). Here, Johnson admits that just events are not always realistic but cannot reconcile himself... | |
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