| William Mudford - 1802 - 166 pages
...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 fortifies himself as he can,... | |
| British essayists - 1802 - 220 pages
...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 fortifies himself as he can... | |
| James Neild - Debt, Imprisonment for - 1802 - 386 pages
...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 fortifies himself as he can... | |
| English literature - 1803 - 196 pages
...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 fortifies himself as he can... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...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 one fortifies himseif as he can'... | |
| Charles Sedley (novelist.) - 1807 - 218 pages
...ignominy—the rage of want '* —and the malignity of despair. * " In a prison the awe of a public eye " is lost; and the power of the law is *' spent; there are few fears—there are " no blushes. ** Every one fortifies himself, as he " can, against his own sensibility:... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 pages
...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 fortifies himself as he can... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...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 fortifies himself as he can... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...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 fortifies himself as he can... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...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 fortifies himself as he can... | |
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