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... manners , fashions , tastes , and prevalent opinions . Thus they have a historical as well as a literary and an ethical value . And Thackeray , in speaking of the office of the humorist or satirist , for to him they were one , says ...
... manners , fashions , tastes , and prevalent opinions . Thus they have a historical as well as a literary and an ethical value . And Thackeray , in speaking of the office of the humorist or satirist , for to him they were one , says ...
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... manners , the liter- ary modes and tastes of the Augustan age . Horace's Satires conform to Addison's great rule , which he lays down in the Spectator , that the satire which only seeks to wound is as dangerous as arrows that fly in the ...
... manners , the liter- ary modes and tastes of the Augustan age . Horace's Satires conform to Addison's great rule , which he lays down in the Spectator , that the satire which only seeks to wound is as dangerous as arrows that fly in the ...
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... manner the entire catalogue of vices , public and private , which were assailing the welfare of the state . They constitute luridly powerful pictures of a debased and shamelessly corrupt condition of society . Keen contemptuous ridicule ...
... manner the entire catalogue of vices , public and private , which were assailing the welfare of the state . They constitute luridly powerful pictures of a debased and shamelessly corrupt condition of society . Keen contemptuous ridicule ...
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... manners of antiquity . If Juvenal enforces the lesson of that time , and has penetrated more deeply into the heart of society , Martial has sketched its external aspect with a much fairer pencil , and from a much more intimate contact ...
... manners of antiquity . If Juvenal enforces the lesson of that time , and has penetrated more deeply into the heart of society , Martial has sketched its external aspect with a much fairer pencil , and from a much more intimate contact ...
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... manners in the second century , painting in vivid colours the re- action that had set in against scepticism , and the general appetite that prevailed for miracles and magic . Finally , ancient satire may be said to close with the famous ...
... manners in the second century , painting in vivid colours the re- action that had set in against scepticism , and the general appetite that prevailed for miracles and magic . Finally , ancient satire may be said to close with the famous ...
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Page 128 - Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And, as the prompter breathes, the puppet squeaks; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar Toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies.
Page 182 - Though they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it; What's...
Page 140 - Speak thou whose thoughts at humble peace repine, Shall Wolsey's wealth, with Wolsey's end, be thine ? Or liv'st thou now, with safer pride content, The wisest justice on the banks of Trent ? For why did Wolsey, near the steeps of fate, On weak foundations raise th...
Page 147 - My Lord, I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of The World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honor, which, being very little accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
Page 150 - Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind: Tho' fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote ; Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining; Though equal...
Page 152 - Though secure of our hearts, yet confoundedly sick If they were not his own by finessing and trick: He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleased he could whistle them back.
Page 36 - WHEN civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out, they knew not why ; When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears, And made them fight, like mad or drunk, For Dame Religion, as for punk ; VOL.
Page 51 - But Shadwell never deviates into sense. Some beams of wit on other souls may fall, Strike through and make a lucid interval ; But Shadwell's genuine night admits no ray, His rising fogs prevail upon the day.
Page 125 - Proud as Apollo on his forked hill, Sate full-blown Bufo puffd by ev'ry quill; Fed with soft Dedication all day long, Horace and he went hand in hand in song.
Page 51 - Through all the realms of Nonsense absolute. This aged prince, now flourishing in peace, And blest with issue of a large increase, Worn out with business, did at length debate To settle the succession of the...