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... satirical ( and young people have almost always an abundant supply of good humour and sound satire ) it is most difficult of all not to indulge in funny hits , and sneers , and savage satire . Let us take two great satirists , Swift and ...
... satirical ( and young people have almost always an abundant supply of good humour and sound satire ) it is most difficult of all not to indulge in funny hits , and sneers , and savage satire . Let us take two great satirists , Swift and ...
Page 136
... satire ? Do not the wisest writers contemn the mob and the applause of the many- headed . If great books are great evils , are not widely circulated papers so in another sense ? This striving at vastness produces wonderful results on ...
... satire ? Do not the wisest writers contemn the mob and the applause of the many- headed . If great books are great evils , are not widely circulated papers so in another sense ? This striving at vastness produces wonderful results on ...
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... satirist said , to conceal men's thoughts , but not in that way . Big , bombastic , and swelling words , without thoughts to agree with them , are as ridiculous as the titles assumed by the pauper lunatics in Hanwell , and are often ...
... satirist said , to conceal men's thoughts , but not in that way . Big , bombastic , and swelling words , without thoughts to agree with them , are as ridiculous as the titles assumed by the pauper lunatics in Hanwell , and are often ...
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... roughs — but there is enough to consider to make us sadly own that we want both Geist and Chic , and the first thing to remedy that want is to acknowledge it . SATIRE . ITS USE AND ABUSE A Great Want - 146 A MAN'S THOUGHTS .
... roughs — but there is enough to consider to make us sadly own that we want both Geist and Chic , and the first thing to remedy that want is to acknowledge it . SATIRE . ITS USE AND ABUSE A Great Want - 146 A MAN'S THOUGHTS .
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James Hain Friswell. SATIRE . ITS USE AND ABUSE A Great Want - Truth a Libel - Vulgar Satirists CHAPTER XII .
James Hain Friswell. SATIRE . ITS USE AND ABUSE A Great Want - Truth a Libel - Vulgar Satirists CHAPTER XII .
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Page 108 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot ; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
Page 62 - In the corrupted currents of this world, Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Page 178 - O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.
Page 181 - But that vast portion, lastly, of the working class which, raw and half-developed, has long lain half-hidden amidst its poverty and squalor, and is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven^ born privilege of doing as he likes, and is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes, — to this vast residuum we may with great propriety give the name of Populace.
Page 8 - Sunday shines no Sabbath-day to me: Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy! to catch me, just at dinner-time.