 | Georg Morris Cohen Brandes - 1905 - 392 pages
...of one man. Macaulay, in his essay on Moore's Life of Byron, writing on this subject, says : — " We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British...six or seven years our virtue becomes outrageous. We cannot suffer the laws of religion and decency to be violated. We must make a stand against vice. We... | |
 | Croatia - 1907 - 574 pages
...da njihova nutarnja strana nije bolja od vanjske. DANILO MEDIC PRVI PRAVASKI PJESNIK (SvrSetak.) Ill We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. Th. B. Macaulay: Moore's life of Lord Byron. (NiSta nije tako smieSno, negó kad englezko obcinstvo... | |
 | Thomas H. Dickinson, Frederick William Roe - English essays - 1908 - 506 pages
...forbearance which, 15 under such circumstances, is but common justice. We know no spectacle so ridicuous as the British public in one of its periodical fits...little notice. We read the scandal, talk about it for a 20 day, and forget it. But once in six or seven years our virtue becomes outrageous. We cannot suffer... | |
 | Frederick William Roe, Thomas H. Dickinson - English essays - 1908 - 508 pages
...divorces, and family quarrels, pass with little notice. We read the scandal, talk about it for a 20 day, and forget it. But once in six or seven years our virtue becomes outrageous. We cannot suffer the laws of religion and decency to be violated. We must make a stand against vice. We... | |
 | Philip Hugh Dalbiac - Quotations, English - 1908 - 582 pages
...profit By losing of our prayers." SHAKESPEARE. Antony and Cleopatra (Menecrates) Act II., Sc. I. * We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British Public in one of i periodical fits of morality." MACAULAY. Essay on Moore's Life of Lord Byron. "We know what we are,... | |
 | Percival Pollard - American literature - 1909 - 498 pages
...letters, the man of his mood, the " artist in attitudes." Macaulay, writing of Byron, said : " We know of no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in...divorces, and family quarrels, pass with little notice. But once in six or seven years our virtue becomes outrageous. ." After an almost literal account of... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) - British - 1910 - 510 pages
...seems we are not in IUCK. CHAPTER XVIII. IT has been well observed, that no spectacle is so ridicnloui as the British public in one of its periodical fits...day, and forget it. But, once in six or seven years, onr virtue becomes outrageous. We cannot suffer the laws of religion and decency to be violated. We... | |
 | William Flavelle Monypenny, George Earle Buckle - Great Britain - 1910 - 468 pages
...has often been discussed. The well-known passage in the essay on Moore's Life of Byron beginning ' We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality ' is appropriated bodily with no bettor acknowledgment in the original text of the novel than the introductory... | |
 | Ethel Colburn Mayne - Poets, English - 1912 - 382 pages
...crowds as he entered it ". "We know no spectacle", wrote Macaulay in 1831, reviewing Moore's book,8 " so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. . . . Once in six or seven years our virtue becomes outrageous. We cannot suffer the laws of religion... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1913 - 824 pages
...about it now had shown that forbearance which, under such circumstances, is but common justice. ^Ve know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public...six or seven years our virtue becomes outrageous. We cannot suffer the laws of religion and decency to be violated. We must make a stand against vice. We... | |
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We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. In general, elopements, divorces, and family quarrels, pass with little notice. We read the scandal, talk about it for a day, and forget it. But once in... 
