 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1134 sidor
...gives his own receipt for the first: 'How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily 1 R\ 2 , 9 P " : RN( W xg r H b ߴ ` { ߈- r ǖ f using any of those opprobrious terms! . . . This is the mystery of that noble trade. . . . Neither... | |
 | William Swinton - 1886 - 690 sidor
...jut, etc. What is the figure? (See Def. 18.) Dryden, in his Essay on Satire, says : " How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily ! but...man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave without using any of these opprobrious names ! There is a vast difference between the slovenly butchering of... | |
 | John Dryden - 1887 - 420 sidor
...thought the nature of the commodity would have set theft at defiance. VOL. XIII, G from nature. How easy is it to call rogue and villain, and that wittily...man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms ! To spare the grossness of the names, and to do the thing yet... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1887 - 408 sidor
...nothing perfect in mankind." In the same Essay he gives his own receipt for satire : — " How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily ! but...man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms ! . . . This is the mystery of that noble trade. . . . Neither... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1887 - 416 sidor
...prose. perfect in mankind." In the same Essay he gives his own receipt for satire : " How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily ! but how hard to make a ma1l appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms ! . . . .... | |
 | William Swinton - 1888 - 686 sidor
...figure? (See Def. 18.) Dryden, in his Essay on Satire, says : " How easy it is to call rogue and viilain, and that wittily ! but how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave without using any of these opprobrious names ! There is a vast difference between the slovenly butchering of... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 388 sidor
...nothing perfect in mankind." In the same Essay he gives his own receipt for satire: " How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! but how...man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms! . . . This is the mystery of that noble trade. . . . Neither... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 384 sidor
...nothing perfect in mankind." In the same Essay he gives his own receipt for satire: " How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily ! but...man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms ! . . . This is the mystery of that noble trade. . . . Neither... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 410 sidor
...nothing perfect in mankind." In the same Essay he gives his own receipt for satire: " How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily ! but...man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms! . . . This is the mystery of that noble trade. . . . Neither... | |
 | 1893 - 662 sidor
...it : "The nicest and most delicate touches of satire consist in fine raillery. . . . How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily ! But...man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave without using any of those opprobrious terms." That is hard indeed. Satire is not a bludgeon, but a rapier.... | |
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How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! but how hard to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms! 
