 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 474 頁
...printed, the reception was different, according |to the different opinion of its readers. Swift comraended it for the excellence of its morality, as a piece that placed all kinds of vice in the Jirongeft arid rnoft odious light; but others, and among them Dr. Herring, afterwards archbifhop of... | |
 | SAMUEL JOHNSON - 1781 - 254 頁
...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 - 474 頁
...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 - 602 頁
...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 tie JJrongcft and mvjl odious light; but others, and among them Dr. Herring, afterwards archbifhop... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 248 頁
...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 頁
...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 " ftrongeft and moft odious light ;" but others, and among them Dr. Herring, afterwards archbifhop... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 頁
...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 ftrongeft and moft " odious light ;" but others, and among them J)r. Herring, afterwards archbifhop... | |
 | John Gay - 1793 - 356 頁
...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 tbeßrongeß and moß odious light; but others,, and among them Dr. Herring, afterwards archbifhop... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 906 頁
...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,... | |
 | John Gay - 1796 - 284 頁
...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...been even said, that, after the exhibition of the BEGGAR'S OPERA, the gangs of robbers were evidently multiplied. Both these decisions are surely exaggerated.... | |
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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... 
