 to the consummate painter of life and manners. It was due, above all, to the great satirist, who alone knew how to use ridicule without abusing it, who, without inflicting a wound, effected a great social reform, and who reconciled wit and virtue, after...  Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays - Page 420by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860Full view - About this book
 | 1878 - 900 pages
...the bombast, buffoonery and conceits which degraded the theatre, substituted good sense and humour. To the great satirist who alone knew how to use ridicule...effected a great social reform, and who reconciled wit with virtue, after a long and disastrous separation, during which wit had been led astray by profligacy... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew - 1843 - 614 pages
...due to the unsullied statesman, to the accomplished scholir, to the master of pure English eloquence, to the consummate painter of life and manners. It...during which wit had been led astray by profligacy, and virtue by fanaticism. HER NAME. VICTOR Ml lin. The Evening's voices mingling soft above; The hour'»... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1844 - 446 pages
...due to the unsullied statesman, to the accomplished scholar, to the master of pure English eloquence, to the consummate painter of life and manners. It...during which wit had been led astray by profligacy, and virtue by fanaticism. BARERE'S MEMOIRS.* [Edinburgh Review, April, 1844.] THIS book has more than... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 334 pages
...due to the unsullied statesman, to the accomplished scholar, to the master of pure English eloquence, to the consummate painter of life and manners. It...ridicule without abusing it, who, without inflicting awound, effected a great social reform, and who reconciled wit and virtue, after a long and disastrous... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1853 - 596 pages
...due to the unsullied statesman, to the accomplished scholar, to the master of pure English eloquence, to the consummate painter of life and manners. It...during which wit had been led astray by profligacy, and virtue by fanaticism. THE EARL OF CHATHAM. (OCTOBER, 1844.) 1. Correspondence of William Pitt,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1853 - 600 pages
...due to the unsullied statesman, to the accomplished scholar, to the master of pure English eloquence, to the consummate painter of life and manners. It...social reform, and who reconciled wit and virtue, after n long and disastrous separation, during which wit had been led astray by profligacy, and virtue by... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 584 pages
...due to the unsullied statesman, to the accomplished scholar, to the master of pure English eloquence, to the consummate painter of life and manners» It...during which wit had been led astray by profligacy, and virtue by fanaticism. [RICHARD KURD, Bishop of Worcester, was denominated by Gibbon, who has left... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1854 - 452 pages
...due to the unsullied statesman, to the accomplished scholar, to the master of pure English eloquence, to the consummate painter of life and manners. It...during which wit had been led astray by profligacy, and virtue by fanaticism. THE EARL OF CHATHAM. [(OCTOBER, 1844.) I. Correspondence of William Pitt,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1856 - 520 pages
...the consummate painter of life and manners, by claiming national homage to him, " above all," as " the great satirist, who alone knew how to use ridicule...during which wit had been led astray by profligacy, and virtue by fanaticism." Mr. Spectator himself tells us, in his three hundred and fifty-fifth number,... | |
 | 1856 - 522 pages
...the consummate painter of life and manners, by claiming national homage to him, " above all," as " the great satirist, who alone knew how to use ridicule...during which wit had been led astray by profligacy, and virtue by fanaticism." Mr. Spectator himself tells us, in his three hundred and fifty-fifth number,... | |
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