 | John Dryden - 1909 - Počet stránok 1112
...not to be taught; and therefore not to be imitated by him who has it not from nature. 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 t To spare the grossness of the names, and to do the thing yet... | |
 | John Dryden - 1909 - Počet stránok 1122
...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 - Počet stránok 1112
...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 - Počet stránok 386
...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 - Počet stránok 374
...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 - Počet stránok 648
...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 - Počet stránok 230
...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 - Počet stránok 566
...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 - Počet stránok 342
...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 - Počet stránok 534
...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... | |
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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! 
