 | Samuel Johnson - 1984 - 882 pages
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 | James Boyd White - 1985 - 400 pages
..."bless the name of the Lord, whether he gives or takes away." [No. 32] It is therefore to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding,...only solid basis of greatness; and that vice is the consequence of narrow thoughts, that it begins in mistake, and ends in ignominy. [No. 4] Whoever commits... | |
 | W. W. Robson, William Wallace Robson - 1984 - 288 pages
...says, 'for vice is necessary to be shown, should always disgust.' Finally, 'it is to 66 be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding and the only solid basis of greatness'. Johnson's theory of the novel has thus two aspects. One is realism. He is on the side of all those... | |
 | Neil McEwan - 1986 - 152 pages
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 | Alexej Ugrinsky - 1986 - 208 pages
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 | Lionel Kelly - 1987 - 380 pages
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 | Cóilín Owens - 1987 - 138 pages
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 | Edward Tomarken - 1989 - 232 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... 
