 | David Daiches - 1979 - Počet stránok 336
...Original and Progress of Satire" which he prefaced to his verse translation of Juvenal in 1693. "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! . . . there is still a vast difference betwixt the slovenly butchering... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - 2005 - Počet stránok 978
...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 - Počet stránok 658
...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 - Počet stránok 604
...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 - Počet stránok 380
...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... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire, Rolfe Arnold Scott-James - 1920 - Počet stránok 806
...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... | |
 | 1895 - Počet stránok 744
...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 - Počet stránok 112
...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... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1828 - Počet stránok 678
...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... | |
 | William Vaughn Moody, Robert Morss Lovett - 1927 - Počet stránok 538
...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! 
