 In a prison the awe of the public eye is lost, and the power of the law is spent; there are few fears, there are no blushes. The lewd inflame the lewd, the audacious harden the audacious.  The barouche driver and his wife - Page 184by Charles Sedley (novelist.) - 1807Full view - About this book
 | James Neild - Debt, Imprisonment for - 1802 - 386 pages
...impudence of ignominy, the rage of want, and the malignity of despair. In a prison, the awe of the public eye is lost; and the power of the law is spent; there are few fears, there are no blushes; the lewd inflame the lewd, the audacious harden the audacious. Every one... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 220 pages
...impudence of ignominy, the rage of want, and the malignity of despair. In a prison, the awe of the public eye is lost, and the power of the law is spent ; there are few fears, there are no blushes. The lewd inflame the lewd, the audacious harden the audacious. Every one... | |
 | William Mudford - 1802 - 166 pages
...impudence of ignominy, the rage of want, and the malignity of despair. In a prison, the awe of the public eye is lost, and the power of the law is spent ; there are few fears, there are no blushes. The lewd inflame the lewd, the audacious harden the audacious. Every one... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 196 pages
...the impudence of ignominy, the rage of want, and the malignity of despair. In a prison the awe of the public eye is lost, and the power of the law is spent ; there are few fears, there are no blushes. The lewd inflame the lewd, the audacious harden the. audacious. Every... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...interest, to understandings depraved by resentment. Idler, vol. 2, p. iiz. In a prison the awe of the pulic eye is lost, and the power of the law is spent. There are few fears, there are no blushes. The lewd inflame' the lewd; the audacious harden the audacious. Every... | |
 | Charles Sedley (novelist.) - 1807 - 218 pages
...between them : with all th^ " shameless and profligate enormities " that can be produced by the impu" dence of ignominy—the rage of want '* —and the...one fortifies himself, as he " can, against his own sensibility: he " endeavors to practise on others, the ** arts which have been practised on ** himself,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 pages
...impudence of ignominy, the rage of want, and the malignity of despair. In a prison the awe of the publick eye is lost, and the power of the law is spent; there are few fears, there are no blushes. The lewd inflame the lewd, the audacious harden the audacious. Every one... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...impudence of ignominy, the rage of want, and the malignity of despair In a prison, the awe of the publick eye is lost, and the power of the law is spent ; there are few fears, there are no blushes. The lewd inflame the lewd, the audacious harden the audacious. Every one... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...impudence of ignominy, the rage of want, and the malignity of despair In a prison, the awe of the publick eye is lost, and the power of the law is spent ; there are few fears, there are no blushes. The lewd inflame the lewd, the audacious harden the audacious. Every one... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...the impudence of ignominy, the rage of want, and the malignity of despair. In a prison the awe of the public eye is lost, and the power of the law is spent ; there are few fears, there are no blushes. The lewd inflame the lewd, the audacious harden the audacious. Every one... | |
| |
