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" Vice, for vice is necessary to be shewn, should always disgust; nor should the graces of gaiety, or the dignity of courage, be so united with it, as to reconcile it to the mind. Wherever it appears, it should raise hatred by the malignity of its practices,... "
Morality of Fiction: Or, An Inquiry Into the Tendency of Fictitious ... - Page 158
by Hugh Murray - 1805 - 174 pages
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Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 360 pages
...it appears, it should raise hatred by the malignity of its practices and contempt by the meanness of its stratagems : for 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 Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson....
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Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 356 pages
...stratagems : for 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 ; Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson. 200 Ofijecfione. Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson. feared ; and...
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Selections from the Works of Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...parts or spirit, it will be seldom heartily abhorred. The Roman tyrant was content to be hated, 25 if he was but feared; and there are thousands of the readers of romances willing to be thought wicked, if they may be allowed to be wits. It is therefore to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is...
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Selections from the Works of Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...appears, it should raise hatred by the malignity of its practices, and contempt by the meanness of its stratagems : for while it is supported by either parts or spirit, it will be seldom heartily abhorred. IThe Roman tyrant was content to be hated, 25 if he was but feared; and there are thousands...
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Literary Criticism: Pope to Croce

Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - 676 pages
...appears, it should raise hatred by the malignity of its practices, and contempt by the meanness of its stratagems: for 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...
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Essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler

Samuel Johnson - 1968 - 400 pages
...appears, it should raise hatred by the malignity of its practices, and contempt by the meanness of its stratagems; for 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;8 and there are thousands...
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A New Species of Criticism: Eighteenth-century Discourse on the Novel

Joseph F. Bartolomeo - 1994 - 228 pages
...penultimate sentence of the essay goes further, shifting the indictment from ignorance to misplaced pride: "The Roman tyrant was content to be hated, if he was but feared; and there are thousands of readers of romances waiting to be thought wicked, if they may be allowed to be wits." 141 Such unflattering...
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Henry Fielding: The Critical Heritage

Ronald Paulson, Thomas F. Lockwood - 1995 - 488 pages
...appears, it should raise Hatred by the Malignity of its Practices; and Contempt, by the Meanness of its Stratagems; for 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...
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The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson

Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 pages
...appears, it should raise hatred by the malignity of its practices, and contempt by the meanness of its stratagems; for while it is supported by either parts or spirit, it will be seldom heartily abhorred. (nI, 14) This essay is Johnson's contribution to a larger debate about novels as different...
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The Anatomy of Disgust

William Ian Miller - 1997 - 340 pages
...appears, it should raise hatred by the malignity of its practices, and contempt by the meanness of its stratagems; for while it is supported by either parts or spirit, it will be seldom heartily abhorred.1 For Johnson our moral capacity depends on the proper activation of aversive sentiments and...
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