 | SAMUEL JOHNSON - 1781 - 254 str.
...the Beggar's Opsra the gangs of robbers were evidently multiplied. Both thefe decifions are furely exaggerated. The play, like many others, was plainly written only to divert, without any moral purpofe, and is therefore not likely to do good; nor can it be conceived, without more fpeculation... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 602 str.
...the Beggar s Opera the gangs of robbers were evidently multiplied. Both thefe decifions are furely exaggerated. The play, like many others, was plainly written only to divert, without any moral purpofe, and is therefore not likely to do good ; nor can it be conceived, without more fpeculation... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 478 str.
...exaggerated. The play, like many others, was plainly written only to divert, without any moral purpofe, and is therefore not likely to do good; nor can it be conceived, without more fpeculation than life requires or admits, to be productive of much evil. Highwaymen and houfe-breakers... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 474 str.
...the Beggar 's Opera the gangs of robbers were evidently multiplied. Both thefe decifions are furely exaggerated. The play, like many others, was plainly written only to divert, without any moral purpofe, and is therefore not likely to do good ; nor can it be conceived, without more fpeculation... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 248 str.
...the Beggar's Opera the gangs of robbers were evidently multiplied. Both thefe decifions are furely exaggerated. The play, like many others, was plainly written only to divert, witho.ut any moral purpofe, and is therefore not likely to do good ; nor can it be conceived, .without more fpeculation... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 332 str.
...the Beggar's Opera, the gangs of robbers were evidently multiplied. Both thefe decifions are furely exaggerated. The play, like many others, was plainly written only to divert, without any moral purpofe, and is therefore not likely to do good ; nor can it be conceived, without more fpeculation... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1791 - 490 str.
...exaggerated. The play, like many others, was plainly written only to divert, without any moral purpofe, and is therefore not likely to do good ; nor can it...admits, to be productive of much evil. Highwaymen and houfe-breakers feldom frequent the playhoufe, or mingle in any elegant diverfion ; nor is it poflible... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 str.
...the ' Beggar's Opera, the gangs of robbers were evidently multiplied. Both thefe decifions are furely exaggerated. The play, like many others, was plainly written only to divert, without any moral purpofe, and is therefore not likely to do good; nor can it be conceived, without more fpeeulation... | |
 | John Gay - 1793 - 356 str.
...the Beggar's Of era the gangs of robbers were evidently multiplied. Both thefe decifions are furely exaggerated. The play, like many others, was plainly written only to divert, without any moral purpofe, and is therefore not likely to do good ; nor can it be conceived, without more fpeculation... | |
 | John Gay - 1799 - 250 str.
...the Beggar's Opera the gangs of tobbers were evidently multiplied. Both thefe decifions are furely exaggerated. The play , like many others , was plainly written only to divert, without any moral purpofe, and is therefore not likely u do good; nor can it be conceived, without more fpeculation than... | |
| |
Opera the gangs of robbers were evidently multiplied. Both these decisions are surely exaggerated. The play, like many others, was plainly written only to divert, without any moral purpose, and is therefore not likely to do good ; nor can it be conceived,... 
