| 1843 - 586 pages
...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...decency has always been considered among us as the sure mark of a fool. And this revolution, the greatest and most salutary ever effected by any satirist,... | |
| John Holmes Agnew - 1843 - 614 pages
...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...decency has always been considered among us as the sure mark of a fool. And this revolution, the greatest and most salutary ever effected by any satirist,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1844 - 446 pages
...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...decency has always been considered among us as the sure mark of a fool. And this revolution, the greatest and most salutary ever effected by any satirist,... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1853 - 600 pages
...Vanhrugh. So effectually, indeed, did he retort on vice the mockery which had recently been directed against virtue, that, since his time, the open violation...decency has always been considered among us as the sure mark of a fool. And this revolution, the greatest and most salutary ever effected by any satirist,... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 pages
...Tearsheet for * "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. ** " The Court was sat before Sir Roger came; but,... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 pages
...No. 1. 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." — MACACLAY. 1 " The Court was sat before Sir Roger came ; but,... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1854 - 584 pages
...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...decency has always been considered among us as the sure mark of a fool. And this revolution, the greatest and most salutary ever effected by any satirist,... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - 306 pages
...No. 1. 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. * " The Court was sat before Sir Roger came ; but,... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1853 - 600 pages
...retort on vice the mockery which had recently been directed against virtue, that, since his time, tho open violation of decency has always been considered among us as the sure mark of a fool. And this revolution, the greatest and most salu^ tary ever effected by any satirist,... | |
| 1857 - 574 pages
...Vanburgh. So effectually, indeed, did he retort on vice the mockery which had recently been directed against virtue, that, since his time, the open violation...decency has always been considered among us as the sure mark of a fool. And this revolution, the greatest and most salutary ever effected by any satirist,... | |
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