 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1806 - 500 pages
...warmly hope they did not think my partiality quite misapplied, or my labour of hve entirely thrown away. If, in my zeal to exhibit virtue triumphant over the...painted those allurements in too vivid colours, I tun sorry, and ask pardon of all those who thought the moral did not heal the mischief. Junius. I consider... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - 1807 - 520 pages
...hope they did not think my partiality quite misapplied, or my labour of love entirely thrown away. I am sorry, and ask pardon of all those, who thought the moral did not heal the mischief. If my critics have not been too candid I am encouraged to believe, that in these volumes of Henry,... | |
 | William Mudford - 1812 - 666 pages
...read with pleasure ; that the contexture of the fable is artfully woven ; that the characters are. most of them, skilfully drawn ; that the situations...upon the last novel that Cumberland wrote, his John De Lancaster, in three volumes, and published in 1809. This work he announced with some degree of pomp... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1825 - 554 pages
...so. But Cumberland himself entertained a different opinion, and concludes with this apology : — « If, in my zeal to exhibit virtue triumphant over the...colours, I am sorry, and ask pardon of all those who think the moral did not heal the mischief.» Another peculiarity of our author's plots, is, that an... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 492 pages
...so. But Cumberland himself entertained a different opinion, and concludes with this apology : — " If, in my zeal to exhibit virtue triumphant over the...colours, I am sorry, and ask pardon of all those who think the moral did not heal the mischief." Another peculiarity of our author's plots is, that •... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 484 pages
...entertained a different opinion, and concludes with this apology : — " If, in my zeal to exhihit virtue triumphant over the most tempting allurements,...colours, I am sorry, and ask pardon of all those who think the moral did not heal the mischief." Another peculiarity of our author's plots is, that an affair... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 506 pages
...so. But Cumberland himself entertained a different opinion, and concludes with this apology : — " If, in my zeal to exhibit virtue triumphant over the most tempting allurements, I have painted those allurement* in too vivid colours, I am sorry, and ask pardon of all those who think the moral did not... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825 - 622 pages
...so. But Cumberland himself entertained a different opinion, and concludes with this apology: — " If, in my zeal to exhibit virtue triumphant over the...colours, I am sorry, and ask pardon of all those who think the moral did not heal the mischief." Another peculiarity of our author's plots, is, that an... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1847 - 726 pages
...so. But Cumberland himself entertained a different opinion, «nd concludes with this apology ;—" If, in my zeal to exhibit virtue triumphant over the most tempting «Iluremertts, 1 have painted those allurements in too vivid colours, I am sorry, and ask pardon of... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - 1856 - 424 pages
...hope they did not think my partiality quite misapplied, or iny labor of love entirely thrown away. If in my zeal to exhibit virtue triumphant over the...allurements, I have painted those allurements in too vivid colors I am sorry, and ask pardon of all those who thought the moral did not heal the mischief. If... | |
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If, in my zeal to exhibit virtue triumphant over the most tempting allurements, I have painted those allurements in too vivid colours, I am sorry, and ask pardon of all those who think the moral did not heal the mischief. 
