 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
 | William Shakespeare - 2008 - 380 pages
...virtuous miscarry, may doubtless be good, because it is a just representation of the common events in human life: but since all reasonable beings naturally...present case the public has decided. Cordelia, from the time of Tate, has always retired with victory and felicity. And, if my sensations could add anything... | |
 | 1928 - 162 pages
...the latter play he says: 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 3 Varchi's position is outlined by Spingarn, Literary Criticism in the Renaissance, pp. 50-52. "Art... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1871 - 1018 pages
...virtuous miscarry, may doubtless be good, because it is a just representation of the common events of life; but, since all reasonable beings naturally love...of justice makes a play worse ; or that, if other excellences are equal, the audience will not always rise belter pleased from the final triumph of persecuted... | |
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