 | Mark Van Doren - 1920 - 386 sidor
...must proceed from a genius, and particular way of thinking, which is not to be taught. . . . 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! . . . therejs still. a vast \ difference betwixt the slovenly... | |
 | Frances Theresa Russell - 1920 - 374 sidor
...Clodius honorable, Busa chaste." And not long before this, Dryden had been saying: "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 these opprobrious terms! * * * Neither is it true that this fineness of raillery is offensive.... | |
 | Edward Albert - 1923 - 648 sidor
...Buckingham, who receives the name of Zimri. (Dryden, in his Essay on Satire, says: "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 these opprobrious names! There is a vast difference between the slovenly butchering of... | |
 | John Dryden, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - 1925 - 230 sidor
...is not to be taught ; and therefore not to be imitated by him who has it not 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... | |
 | Alexander Frederick Bruce Clark - 1925 - 566 sidor
...Juvenal ". " 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! "... Dryden goes on to instance the character of Zimri in his... | |
 | John Dryden - 1926 - 342 sidor
...to be imitated by him who has it not 35 from nature. How easy is it to call rogue and villain, / I and that wittily ! But how hard to make a man appear ; a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of I those opprobrious terms ! To spare the grossness of j the names, and to do the thing... | |
 | Émile Legouis - 1927 - 534 sidor
...rather preferred to follow the manner of Horace—as is shown in the character of Zimri. "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!" Led away by the logic of this preference, by the moralising... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 sidor
...Original and Progress of Satire" which he prefaced to his verse translation of Juvenal in 1693. "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! . . . there is still a vast difference betwixt the slovenly butchering... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - 2005 - 978 sidor
...pleases: yet still the nicest and most delicate touches of satire consist in fine raillery . . . 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... | |
 | Milton Lodge, Kathleen M. McGraw - 1995 - 658 sidor
...and therefore not to he imitated hy him who has it not from Nature: How easie it is to call Rogueand Villain, and that wittily! But how hard to make a...Man appear a Fool, a Block-head, or a Knave, without using any of those opprohrious terms! To spare the grossness of the Names, and to do the thing yet... | |
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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! 
