 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - 2005 - 978 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 pàgines
...by some abusive epithet. Charles Dickens, 1864-5, Our Mutual Friend, II, Ch. 12 45:41 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! To spare the grossness of the names, and to do the thing yet... | |
 | Kirk Freudenburg - 2005 - 380 pàgines
...not to be taught; and therefore not to be imitated by him who has it not from Nature: So easie it is to call Rogue and Villain, and that wittily! But how...hard to make a Man appear a Fool, a Blockhead, or Knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms! (70) In part, Dryden seems to mean here merely... | |
 | 1895 - 744 pàgines
...with the discoveries of nature in us." 16 17 Old -Authors. John Dryden.1 [CONCLUDED.] "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! There is a vast difference between the slovenly butchering of... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1966 - 112 pàgines
...quote: The nicest and most delicate touches of Satire consist in fine Raillery. . . . How easie 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 ! . . . Neither is it true, that this fineness of Raillery is... | |
 | William Vaughn Moody, Robert Morss Lovett - 1927 - 538 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire, Rolfe Arnold Scott-James - 1920 - 806 pàgines
...and all the rest lie punctured about him. " How easy it is," so runs the epilogue, " 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 terms ! There is still a vast difference between the slovenly butchering... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1828 - 678 pàgines
...desideratum which Dryden considered a matter of so much difficulty: — '• How easy is it," he observes, " to call rogue and villain, and that wittily! But how...man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without usin~ any of those opprobrious terms ! To spare the grossness of the names, and to do the thing' yet... | |
 | University of Toronto - 1895 - 574 pàgines
...delightful and justly famous account of what Dryden means by this "fine raillery." It is the ability "to make a man appear a fool, a blockhead, or a knave, without using any of those opprobrious terms"; it is "the fineness of a stroke that separates the head from... | |
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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! 
