 | William Lisle Bowles - 1819 - Počet stránok 240
...man, almost as good a man as Pope, but no better. The truth is, that in these days the grand uprimum mobile" of England is cant; cant political, cant poetical,...while it lasts will be too powerful for those who can only exist by taking the tone of the time. . I say cant, because it is a thing of words, without the... | |
 | Philip W. Martin - 1982 - Počet stránok 268
...announce their pledges to abstract moral idealism, what Byron said about cant is worth repeating here: The truth is, that in these days the grand 'primum...while it lasts will be too powerful for those who can only exist by taking the tone of the time. I say cant, because it is only a thing of words, without... | |
 | Martin Price - 1983 - Počet stránok 400
...false-speaking time of selfish spoilers. . . ." 6 "The truth is," Byron wrote to his publisher Murray, "that in these days the grand primum mobile of England...cant, multiplied through all the varieties of life." 7 Byron's Don Juan is a poem whose tone is of the greatest importance. Stendhal, in fact, remarks on... | |
 | Lia Noêmia Rodrigues Correia Raitt - 1983 - Počet stránok 168
...Byron, whose views on the subject are summarized at another point in the course of the same controversy: The truth is, that in these days the grand 'primum...cant poetical, cant religious, cant moral; but always 117 O Chronista, Vol. I, No. IX, p. 188, Da actual Regencia de Portugal e de seu principio constitutiva:... | |
 | William Hone - 2003 - Počet stránok 476
...the potions, and the motions. What ho! APOTHECARY!— Shakespeare.73 THE DOCTOR.— fa Dejection.)' In these days the grand "primum mobile" of England is CANT — Cant political. Cant religions. Cant moral, but always CANT — a thing of words, without the smallest influence upon actions;... | |
 | Ben Wilson - 2007 - Počet stránok 482
...and all they implied led him to a furious condemnation of the modern English character: The truth is, the grand 'primum mobile' of England is cant; cant political, cant poetical, cant religious; but always cant, multiplied through all the varieties of life. It is the fashion, and while it lasts... | |
 | 1869 - Počet stránok 830
...extreme eulogy, but his pungent satire carried him through triumphantly. " The truth is," he says, " that in these days the grand primum mobile of England...while it lasts will be too powerful for those who can only exist by taking the tone of the time. I say erint, because it ¡я a thing of word«, without... | |
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The truth is, that in these days the grand "primum mobile" of England is cant; cant political, cant poetical, cant religious, cant moral; but always cant, multiplied through all the varieties of life. 
