 | 1856 - 374 pàgines
...and there is a cross and by-way, which is much the shortest. — Bruyere. CCXXXVIIL How easy is it to call rogue and villain, and that wittily ! but...make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave ! To spare the grossness of the names, and to do the thing yet more severely, is to draw a full face,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 pàgines
...and therefore not to be imitated by him who has it not from nature. How easy is it to call rogue aud using any of those opprobrious terms ! | To spare the grossncss of the names, and to do the thing yet... | |
 | 1868 - 690 pàgines
...is 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...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 is it... | |
 | John Milton - 1869 - 588 pàgines
...Satire) to the Satires oj Juvenal, London, fol. 1693, gives his own opinion of this sketch :— How easie it is 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... | |
 | George Villiers Duke of Buckingham - 1868 - 168 pàgines
...Satire] to the Satires of Juvenal, London, fol. 1603, gives his own opinion of this sketch ;— How easie it is 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... | |
 | George Villiers Duke of Buckingham - 1869 - 156 pàgines
...Satire] to the Satires of ^uvenal, London, fol. i693, gives his own opinion of this sketch :— How easie it is 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 - 1898 - 396 pàgines
...in pros*. perfect in mankind.11 In the same Essay he gives his own receipt for satire : " How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily...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 is it... | |
 | JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. A.M. - 1870 - 604 pàgines
...is 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...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 is it... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 pàgines
...his jest, 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...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... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 pàgines
...a satirist and a pleader that he is best known. He gives his own receipt for the first: ' How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily...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... | |
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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! 
