 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1112 pàgines
...imitated by him who lias it not from nature. How easy it is to call rogue and villain, and that wittily I you; A brother judgment, and, as I hear say, A cursed critic as e'er danm' using any of those opprobrious terms ! To spare the grossness of the names, and to do the thing yet... | |
 | Frances Theresa Russell - 1920 - 374 pàgines
...Style 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!...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.... | |
 | Mark Van Doren - 1920 - 378 pàgines
...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! But how...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... | |
 | Edward Albert - 1923 - 648 pàgines
...Duke of 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!...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... | |
 | Alexander Frederick Bruce Clark - 1925 - 566 pàgines
...chastisement of 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...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, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - 1925 - 230 pàgines
...satire. The nicest and most delicate touches, he tells us, consist in fine raillery. ' How easy is it 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 ! To spare the grossness of the names, and to do the thing yet... | |
 | Emile Legouis, Louis François Cazamian - 1927 - 540 pàgines
...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!...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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1926 - 342 pàgines
...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... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pàgines
...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! But how...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 pàgines
...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! But how...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... | |
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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! 
