| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1910 - 1200 pages
...of those shameless scribblers (for the most part of that sex which ought least to be capable of such malice or impudence) who in libellous Memoirs and Novels reveal the faults or misfortunes of both sexes, to the ruin of public fame, or disturbance of private happiness." Swift, writing to Lady Suffolk,... | |
| George Frisbie Whicher - 1915 - 238 pages
...those shameless scribblers (for the most part of that sex, which ought least to be capable of such malice or impudence) who in libellous Memoirs and Novels, reveal the faults and misfortunes of both sexes, to the ruin of public fame, or disturbance of private happiness. Our... | |
| Catherine Ingrassia - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 248 pages
...of those shameless scriblers (for the most part of That sex, which ought least to be capable to such malice or impudence) who in libellous Memoirs and Novels, reveal the faults and misfortunes of both sexes, to the ruin or disturbance, of publick fame or private happiness. Our... | |
| Eliza Haywood - Fiction - 2000 - 300 pages
...concubine, and a cow. 4 Chamber pot. most part of that sex, which ought least to be capable of such malice or impudence) who in libellous memoirs and novels, reveal the faults and misfortunes of both sexes, to the ruin or disturbance of publick fame or private happiness. Our... | |
| Kirsten T. Saxton, Rebecca P. Bocchicchio - History - 2000 - 386 pages
...of those shameless scriblers (for the most part of That sex, which ought least to be capable of such malice or impudence) who in libellous Memoirs and Novels, reveal the faults and misfortunes of both sexes, to the ruin or disturbance, of publick fame or private happiness" (35-36).... | |
| Bradford K. Mudge - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 298 pages
...of those shameless scriblers (for the most part of That sex, which ought least to be capable of such malice or impudence) who in libellous Memoirs and Novels, reveal the faults and misfortunes of both sexes, to the ruin or disturbance, of public fame or private happiness. For... | |
| Eliza Haywood, Henry Fielding - Fiction - 2004 - 340 pages
...those "shameless scribblers (for the most part of That sex, which ought least to be capable of such malice or impudence) who in libellous Memoirs and Novels, reveal the faults and misfortunes of both sexes, to the ruin of publick fame, or disturbance of private happiness" (Alexander... | |
| Susan Staves - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 414 pages
...of those shameless scriblers (for the most part of that Sex, which ought least to be capable of such malice or impudence) who in libellous Memoirs and Novels, reveal the faults and misfortunes of both sexes, to the ruin or disturbance, of publick fame or private happiness."54... | |
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