Sydney Smith is to the tribes of Noodledom, with his irony, his jeering, and his felicitous illustrations. It is his pre-eminently to abash those who are case-hardened against grave argument, and to wring the withers of the very numerous and respectable... Characters of the Court: A Poem with Notes - 第 19 頁Characters 著 - 1816 - 24 頁完整檢視 - 關於此書
| TREUTTEL - 1828 - 794 頁
...expose moral criminals. If the state of society be such, that characters of a cast so dangerous, " Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Are touched and shamed by ridicule alone," where shall we find the means of assailing them unless by the influence of satire? If ridicule as well... | |
| 1828 - 778 頁
...expose moral criminals. If the state of society be such, that characters of a cast so dangerous, " Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Are touched and sliamed by ridicule alone," where shall we find the means of assailing them unless by the influence... | |
| Sidney Willard - 1832 - 560 頁
...of offenders which are exposed to public odium and disgrace, or incur the penalties of the laws, " Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Are touched and shamed by ridicule alone." In the time of Domitian, when Juvenal wrote his Satires, the grossest licentiousness had become so... | |
| Walter Scott - 1835 - 400 頁
...expose moral criminals. If the state of society be such, that characters of a cast so dangerous, " Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Are touched and shamed by ridicule alone," where shall we find the means of assailing them unless by the influence of satire ? If ridicule as... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1858 - 672 頁
...doing, they may perhaps pardon our severity on the grounds that characters of a cast so dangerous, Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Are touched and shamed by ridicule alone, and even though seen merely in the past, are most fitly held up to view and scorn by means of reprehensive... | |
| John Wiggins - 1844 - 312 頁
...with no check so powerful as that of ridicule, those who employ it well knowing that some characters " Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, Are touched and turned hy ridicule alone." Does a landlord evince a disposition to let his lands at moderate rents,... | |
| Richard Robert Madden - 1855
...against grave argument, and to wring the withers of the very numerous and respectable class, who, " ' Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Are touched and shamed by ridicule alone.' perceive nothing false that is not at the same time obviously absurd. To all such, Sydney Smith is... | |
| Richard Robert Madden - 1855 - 618 頁
...against grave argument, and to wring the withers of the very numerous and respectable class who, " ' Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Are touched and shamed by ridicule alone.' There are thousands upon thousands whose intelligence is not to be awakened to the pereeption of wrong... | |
| Richard Robert Madden - 1855 - 614 頁
...against grave argument, and to wring the withers of the very numerous and respectable class who, "' Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Are touched and shamed by ridicule alone.' There are thousands upon thousands whose intelligence is not to be awakened to the pereeption of wrong... | |
| Richard Robert Madden - 1855 - 608 頁
...against grave argument, and to wring the withers of the very numerous and respectable class who, " ' Safe from the bar, the pulpit, and the throne, Are touched and shamad by ridicule alone.' There are thousands upon thousands whose intelligence is not to be awakened... | |
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