 | John Dennis - 1896 - 276 sider
...touches more attractive than Dryden's. ' To attack vices in the abstract,' he said to Arbuthnot, ' without touching persons, may be safe fighting indeed, but it is fighting with shadows ; ' and Pope, under the plea of a detestation of vice, generally betrayed his contempt or hatred of... | |
 | John Dennis - 1908 - 288 sider
...touches more attractive than Dryden's. ' To attack vices in the abstract,' he said to Arbuthnot, ' without touching persons, may be safe fighting indeed, but it is fighting with shadows ; ' and Pope, under the plea of a detestation of vice, generally betrayed his contempt or hatred of... | |
 | William Cowper Brann - 1919 - 336 sider
...Arbuthnot, Pope says : " To reform and not chastise I am afraid is impossible. . . . To attack vice in the abstract, without touching persons, may be...fighting indeed, but it is fighting with shadows. The fame of Demosthenes rests upon his Philippics. Catullus cauterized. Carlyle cut to the red, and... | |
 | John Dennis - 1924 - 280 sider
...touches more attractive than Dryden's. > * ' To attack vices in the abstract,' he said to Arbuthnot, 'without touching persons, may be safe fighting indeed, but it is fighting with shadows ; ' and Pope, under the plea of a detestation of vice, generally betrayed his contemj^LfixJiatred of... | |
 | John Dennis - 1928 - 280 sider
...satirical touches more attractive than Dryden's. ' To attack vices in the abstract,' he said to Arbuthnot, 'without touching persons, may be safe fighting indeed, but it is fighting with shadows ; ' and Pope, under the plea of a detestation of vice, generally betrayed hia contempt or hatred of... | |
 | Norman Furlong - 1946 - 196 sider
...Precepts, as well as the best Laws, would prove of small use, if there were no Examples to inforce them. To attack Vices in the abstract, without touching...fighting indeed, but it is fighting with Shadows. General propositions are obscure, misty, and uncertain, compar'd with plain, full, and home examples... | |
 | Helen Deutsch - 1996 - 300 sider
...Precepts, as well as the best Laws, would prove of small use, if there were no Examples to inforce them. To attack Vices in the abstract, without touching Persons, may be safe fighting indeed, but is fighting with Shadows. General propositions are obscure, misty, and uncertain, compar'd with plain,... | |
 | Pat Rogers - 2007
...love for Virtue, without loving the Good. To reform and not to chastise, I am afraid is impossible ... To attack Vices in the abstract, without touching...fighting indeed, but it is fighting with Shadows. (Con, in, p. 419) NOTES 1. Selected Letters, ed. Howard Erskine-Hill (Oxford: Oxford University Press,... | |
 | 1844 - 156 sider
...and the best precepts, as well as the best laws, would prove of small use if there were no examples to enforce them. To attack vices in the abstract,...without touching persons, may be safe fighting indeed, for it is fighting with shadows. My greatest comfort and encouragement to proceed has been, to see... | |
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To reform and not to chastise I am afraid is impossible, and that the best precepts, as well as the best laws, would prove of small use if there were no examples to enforce them. To attack vices in the abstract, without touching persons, may be safe fighting... 
