 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
 | Walter Scott - 1870 - 488 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 (harried by ridicule alone," where shall we find the means of assailing them unless by the influence... | |
 | William Clark Russell - 1871 - 550 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 perception of wrong... | |
 | George Shaw (author of Rambles about Filey.) - 1880 - 264 頁
...against grave arguments, 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 whose intelligence is not to be awakened to the perception of wrong by the force... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1828 - 802 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... | |
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