 | 1962 - 316 pages
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 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - 676 pages
...romances willing to be thought wicked if they may be allowed to be wits. It is therefore to be steadily inculcated that virtue is the highest proof of understanding,...thoughts; that it begins in mistake and ends in ignominy. PREFACE TO SHAKESPEARE (selections)1 1765 . . . The poet of whose works I have undertaken the revision... | |
 | Samuel Hynes - 1963 - 344 pages
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 | Samuel Johnson - 1968 - 400 pages
...romances willing to be thought wicked, if they may be allowed to be wits. It is therefore to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding,...thoughts, that it begins in mistake, and ends in ignominy. No. 6. Saturday, 7 April 175o. Strenua nos exercet inertia, navibus atque Quadrigis petimus bene vivere:... | |
 | John D. Boyd - 1968 - 344 pages
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 | P. S. Sastri - 1969 - 540 pages
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... while it is supported by either parts or spirit, it will be seldom heartily abhorred. The Roman tyrant was content to be hated, if he was but feared; and there are thousands of the readers of romances willing to be thought wicked, if they may be allowed... 
