 Of this performance, when it was printed, the reception was different, according to the different opinion of its readers. Swift commended it for the excellence of its morality, as a piece that " placed all kinds of vice in the strongest and most odious...  The Poetical Works of John Gay - Seite xviiivon John Gay - 1854Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | SAMUEL JOHNSON - 1781 - 254 Seiten
...adieus light; but others, and among them Dr. Herring, afterwards archbifhop of Canterbury, cenfured it as giving encouragement not only to vice but to crimes, by making a highwayman the. hero, and difaiiffing him at laft unpunifhed. It has been even faid that « after the exhibition of the Beggar's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 602 Seiten
...odious light; but others, and among them Dr. Herring, afterwards archbifhop of Canterbury, cenfured it as giving encouragement not only to vice but to crimes, by making a highwayman the hero, and difmifling him at laft unpunifhed. It has been even faid, that after the exhibition of the Beggar s... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 474 Seiten
...odious light \ but others, and among them Dr. Herring, afterwards archbifhop of Canterbury, cenfured it as giving encouragement not only to vice but to crimes, by making a highwayman the hero, and difmiffing him at laft unpunifhed. It has been even faid, that after the exhibition of the Beggar 's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 248 Seiten
...odisus light ; but others, and among them Dr. Herrfog, afterwards archbifhop of Canterbury, cenfuredit as giving encouragement not only to vice but to crimes, by making a highwayman, the hero, and difmiffing him at laft unpunifhed. It has been even faid that after the exhibition of the Beggar's... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 332 Seiten
...odious light ;" but others, and among them Dr. Herring, afterwards archbifhop of Canterbury, cenfured it as giving encouragement not only to vice but to crimes, by making a highwayman the hero, and difmiffing him at laft unpunifhed. It has been even faid, that, after the exhibition of the Beggar's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 Seiten
...odious light ;" but others, and among them J)r. Herring, afterwards archbifhop of Canterbury, cenfured it as giving encouragement not only to vice but to crimes, by making a highwayman the hero, and difmiffing him at laft unpunifhed. It has been even faid, that, after the exhibition of the ' Beggar's... | |
 | John Gay - 1793 - 356 Seiten
...odious light; but others,, and among them Dr. Herring, afterwards archbifhop of Canterbury, cenfured it as giving encouragement not only to vice but to crimes, by making a highwayman the hero, and difmiffing him at laft unpuniihed. It has been even faid, that after the exhibition of the Beggar's... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 906 Seiten
...odious light." [Jntelligaiar, No. III.] Dr. Herring, afterwards Archhifhop of Canterbury, cehfured it as giving encouragement, not only to vice, but to crimes, by making a highwayman the hero, and difmiffing him at laft unpunilhcJ. Both thefe decifions are perhaps exaggerated ; but it mud be confcfled,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1797 - 278 Seiten
...the reception was by no means fo great. Dr. Herring, Archbifhop of Canterbury, among others, cenfured it as giving encouragement not only to vice but to crimes, by making a highwayman the hero, and diimiffing him at laft unpunifhed. This objection, or fome other rather political than moral, obtained... | |
 | John Gay - 1799 - 250 Seiten
...odious light; but others, and among them Dr. Herring, afterwards avchbifhop of Canterbury, cenfured it as giving encouragement not only to vice but to crimes , by making a highwayman the hero , and difniifl'ing him at lalt unpunifhed. It has been even faid, that after the exhibition of the Beggar's... | |
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