 ... been wanting attentive and malicious observers to point them out. For many years after the Restoration, they were the theme of unmeasured invective and derision. They were exposed to the utmost licentiousness of the press and of the stage, at the...  Macaulay's Essay on Milton - Page 38by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1899 - 114 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1835 - 932 pages
...the utmost licentiousness of the press and of the stage, al the lime when the press and • the stage Were most licentious. They were not men of letters...dramatists. The ostentatious simplicity of their dress, Iheir sour aspect, their nasal twang, their stiff posture, their long graces, their Hebrew names, the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 464 pages
...to the utmost licentiousness of the press and of the stage, at the time when the press and the stage were most licentious. They were not men of letters...names, the Scriptural phrases which they introduced on every occasion, their contempt of human learning, their detestation of polite amusements, were indeed... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - Bible - 1840 - 644 pages
...to the utmost licentiousness of the press and of the stage, at the time when the press and the stage were most licentious. They were not men of letters;...dress, their sour aspect, their nasal twang, their still postures, their long graces, their Hebrew names, the scriptural phrases which they introduced... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 614 pages
...of the press and of the stage, at the time when the press and the stage were most licentious. Thei were not men of letters ; they were, as a body unpopular...of the satirists and dramatists. The ostentatious sim plicity of their dress, their sour aspect, theii nasal twang, their stití'posture, their long... | |
 | John Stoughton - Windsor (Berkshire, England) History - 1844 - 266 pages
...there was a halo of sublimity encircling their enthusiasm, such as rarely gilds the path of mortals. " The ostentatious simplicity of their dress, their...graces, their Hebrew names, the scriptural phrases they introduced on every occasion, their contempt of human learning, their detestation of polite amusements,... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...to the utmost licentiousness of the press and of the stage, at the time when the press and the stage were most licentious. They were not men of letters...names, the Scriptural phrases which they introduced on every occasion, their contempt of human learning, their detestation of polite amusements, were indeed... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - Great Britain - 1849 - 580 pages
...sense. " The ostentatious simplicity of their dress," said the ablest of their defenders, long ago, " their sour aspect, their nasal twang, their stiff...names, the Scriptural phrases which they introduced on every occasion, their contempt of human learning, their detestation of public amusements, were indeed... | |
 | Bartholomew Elliott G. Warburton - 1849 - 588 pages
...sense. " The ostentatious simplicity of their dress," said the ablest of their defenders, long ago, " their sour aspect, their nasal twang, their stiff...names, the Scriptural phrases which they introduced on every occasion, their contempt of human learning, their detestation of public amusements, were indeed... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 780 pages
...to the utmost licentiousness of the press and of the stage, at the time when the press and the stage were most licentious. They were not men of letters...names, the Scriptural phrases which they introduced on every occasion, their contempt of human learning, their detestation of polite amusements, were indeed... | |
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