 We reflect very complacently on our own severity, and compare with great pride the high standard of morals established in England, with the Parisian laxity. At length our anger is satiated. Our victim is ruined and heart-broken. And our virtue goes quietly...  Venetia - Page 104by Benjamin Disraeli - 1858Full view - About this book
 | Georg Morris Cohen Brandes - 1905 - 392 pages
...other transgressors of the same class are, it is supposed, sufficiently chastised. We reflect very complacently on our own severity, and compare with...standard of morals established in England with the VOL. IV. T Parisian laxity. At length our anger is satiated. Our victim is ruined and heart-broken.... | |
 | Thomas H. Dickinson, Frederick William Roe - English essays - 1908 - 508 pages
...other transgressors of the same class are, it is supposed, sufficiently chastised. We reflect very complacently on our own severity, and compare with...great pride the high standard of morals established in 5 England with the Parisian laxity. At length our anger is satiated. Our victim is ruined and broken-hearted.... | |
 | Thomas H. Dickinson, Frederick William Roe - English essays - 1908 - 506 pages
...complacently on our own severity, and compare with great pride the high standard of morals established in 5 England with the Parisian laxity. At length our anger is satiated. Our victim is ruined and broken-hearted. And our virtue goes quietly to sleep for seven years more. It is clear that those vices... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - Literature - 1908 - 464 pages
...other transgressors of the same class are, it is supposed, sufficiently chastised. We reflect very complacently on our own severity, and compare with great pride the high itandard of morals established in England with the Parisian laxity. At length our anger is satiated.... | |
 | Percival Pollard - American literature - 1909 - 498 pages
...literal account of what years afterwards took place about Wilde, Macaulay concluded that passage: " At length our anger is satiated. Our victim is ruined...virtue goes quietly to sleep for seven years more." A month after Wilde's death I published an argument seeking to disestablish the connection between... | |
 | Censorship - 1909 - 284 pages
...the other transgressors of the same class are, it is supposed, sufficiently punished. We reflect very complacently on our own severity, and compare with great pride the high standards of morals established in England with the Parisian laxity. At length our anger is satiated.... | |
 | Ethel Colburn Mayne - Poets, English - 1912 - 382 pages
...singled out as an expiatory sacrifice. . . . He is cut by the higher orders, and hissed by the lower. ... At length our anger is satiated. Our victim is ruined...virtue goes quietly to sleep for seven years more. It is clear", he continues, "that those vices which destroy domestic happiness ought to be as much... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1913 - 824 pages
...other transgressors of the same class are, it is supposed, sufficiently chastised. We reflect very complacently on our own severity, and compare with...And our virtue goes quietly to sleep for seven years morej It is clear that those vices which destroy domestic happiness ought to be as much as possible... | |
 | Edmund Sidney Pollock Haynes - Great Britain - 1916 - 268 pages
...other transgressors of the same class are, it is supposed, sufficiently chastised. We reflect very complacently on our own severity, and compare with...virtue goes quietly to sleep for seven years more. "It is clear that those vices which destroy domestic happiness ought to be as much as possible repressed.... | |
 | Charles Hamilton Hughes - Neurology - 1898 - 742 pages
...other transgressors of the same class are, it is supposed, sufficiently chastised. We reflect very complacently on our own severity, and compare with...length our anger is satiated. Our victim is ruined and broken-hearted. And our virtue goes quietly to sleep for seven years more. This opinion of Macaulay... | |
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