 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 1088 pages
...riolation of decency has always been considered among ca as the mark of a fool. And this revolution, tho greatest and most salutary ever effected by any satirist,...lampoon. In the early contributions of Addison to the Tatlerhis peculiar powers were not fully exhibited. Yet from the first, his superiority to all his... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 1078 pages
...mark of a fool. And this revolution, tha greatest and most salutary ever effected by any satirist, ne accomplished, be it remembered, without writing one...Tatler his peculiar powers were not fully exhibited. Ye* from the first, his superiority to all his coadjutors was evident. Some of his later Tatlers are... | |
 | Robert Demaus - English literature - 1860 - 202 pages
...directed against it that irony which had formerly been employed against virtue, and with such success that " since his time, the open violation of decency...has always been considered among us as the mark of a COMEDY — ESSAYISTS. 91 fool."* A new race of dramatists succeeded, whoso works, if inferior in wit... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 468 pages
...that, sinee his time, the open violation of deeeney has always been eonsidered among us as the sure mark of a fool. And this revolution, the greatest and most salutary ever effeeted by any satirist, he aeeomplished, be it remembered, without writing one personal lampoon.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 882 pages
...touched 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. 1 ' The Court was sat before Sir Roger came ; but,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869 - 410 pages
...those * " So effectually, indeed, did be 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. t "The Court was sat before Sir Roger came; but,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - England - 1869 - 410 pages
...those * " 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. t " The Court was sat before Sir Roger came ; but,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1869 - 414 pages
...those * " 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. t "The Court was sat before Sir Roger came; but,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - England - 1869 - 414 pages
...those * " 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." — MACAU LAY. t "The Court was sat before Sir Roger came ; but,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1870 - 586 pages
...considered among ^us as the sure mark of a fool. And this revolution, the greatest and most salu tary ever effected by any satirist, he accomplished, be...fully exhibited. Yet from the first his superiority to his coadjutors was evident. Some of his later Tatlers are fully equal to any thing that he ever wrote.... | |
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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 among us as the mark of a fool. 
