 | John Dryden - 1909 - 1122 pàgines
...taught; and therefore not to be imitated by him who has it not from nature. How easy it is to calf rogue and villain, and that wittily ! But how hard...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Mark Van Doren - 1920 - 386 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 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... | |
 | Émile Legouis - 1927 - 534 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! 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 pàgines
...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... | |
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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! 
