| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 164 oldal
...Vanbrugh. So effectually, indeed, did he retort on vice the mockery which had recently been directed against virtue, that, since his time, the open violation of decency has always 3° been considered among us as the mark of a fool. And this revolution, the greatest and most salutary... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1899 - 266 oldal
...Vanbrugh. So effectually, indeed, did he retort on vice the mockery which had recently been directed against virtue, that, since his time, the open violation...considered among us as the mark of a fool. And this 20 revolution, the greatest and most salutary ever effected by any satirist, he accomplished, be it... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1899 - 128 oldal
...indeed, did he retort on vice, — the mockery which had recently been directed against virtue,—that, since his time, the open violation of decency has...always been considered among us as the mark of a fool." The remainder of the essay analyzes the papers of the Spectator: gems of sparkling praise are dropped... | |
| Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1899 - 822 oldal
...effectually, indeed," says Macaulay, "did he retort on vice the mockery which had recently been directed against virtue, that, since his time, the open violation of decency has always been considered amongst us the sure mark of a fool." Joseph Addison was born in Wiltshire in 1672, his father, a man... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1901 - 264 oldal
...Spectator set itself to do ; and this it accomplished with such extraordinary success that since their time "the open violation of decency has always been considered among us as the mark of a fool." l The moral significance of the work accomplished by Addison and Steele can hardly be overrated. It... | |
| William Williamson - 1902 - 264 oldal
...head." 43. " So effectually, indeed, did he retort on vice the mockery which had recently been directed against virtue, that, since his time, the open violation...remembered, without writing one personal lampoon." 44. "Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While, proudly riding o'er the azure realm In... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1902 - 364 oldal
...Vanbrugh. So effectually, indeed, did he retort on vice the mockery which had recently 15 been directed against virtue, that, since his time, the open violation...ever effected by any satirist, he accomplished, be it re20 membered, without writing one personal lampoon. 90. In the early contributions of Addison to the... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 418 oldal
...No. 1. * " So effectually, indeed, did he retort on vice the mockery which had recently been directed against virtue, that, since his time, the open violation of decency has always been considered, amongst us, the sure mark of a fooL" — Macaulay. cc 2 to Mr. Spectator : * if he did not mistake... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1900 - 210 oldal
...Vanbrugh. 0 So effectually, indeed, did he retort on vice the mockery which had recently been directed against virtue, that, since his time, the open violation of decency has always been con20 sidered among us as the mark of a fool. And this revolution, the greatest and most salutary ever... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1902 - 304 oldal
...course, suddenly revolutionize taste and morals, but it is certainly largely true that since their time '' the open violation of decency has always been considered among us the mark of a fool." Steele's ideal of woman was beyond his age. To her, in effect, he said : " You... | |
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