 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
 | Elbert Hubbard - Anthologies - 1923 - 252 pages
...other transgressors of the same class are, it is supposed, sufficiently chastised 9+ We reflect very complacently on our own severity, and compare with...virtue goes quietly to sleep for seven years more. €L It is clear that those vices which destroy domestic happiness ought to be as much as possible... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - Literature - 1923 - 284 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. C, It is clear that those vices which destroy domestic happiness ought to be as much as possible repressed.... | |
 | Georg Morris Cohen Brandes - Lake poets - 1923 - 398 pages
...and compare with great pride the high standard of morals established in England with the VOL. IV. T Parisian laxity. At length our anger is satiated....virtue goes quietly to sleep for seven years more." If the causes of Byron's downfall were of a complex nature, the means were simple enough. It was compassed... | |
 | Ethel Colburn Mayne - Literary Criticism - 1924 - 500 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... | |
 | Walter Alwyn Briscoe - 1924 - 350 pages
...agonies all the other transgressors of the same class are, it is supposed, sufficiently chastised ... At length our anger is satiated. Our victim is ruined...virtue goes quietly to sleep for seven years more. ill So it happened with Byron. But a hundred years is a long while : and I cannot agree with Mr. Coleridge,... | |
 | Andrew Rutherford - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 536 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. . . . The obloquy which Byron had to endure, was such as might well have shaken a more constant mind.... | |
 | Edwards Pierrepont - 1868 - 294 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 barely possible that some touch of these ancestral traits unconsciously hurried honorable Congressmen... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1831 - 754 pages
...chastised. We reflect very complacently on our own severity, and compare with great pride the liigh standard of morals established in England, with the...ruined and heartbroken. And our virtue goes quietly asleep for seven years more. « It is clear that those vices which destroy domestic happiness, ought... | |
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