 | Edgar Allan Poe - Literary Criticism - 1980 - 136 pages
...never a dupe! —I do not think that the Virginian who wrote placidly in the onrush of democracy : "The people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them," has ever fallen prey to modern sagacity— and: "The nose of a mob is its imagination; by this at any... | |
 | Charles Baudelaire - Literary Criticism - 1981 - 468 pages
...was ! - I do not believe that the Virginian who, in the full tide of democracy, could calmly write: 'The people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them',2 can ever have been the victim of modern wisdom; and 'The nose of a mob is its imagination ;... | |
 | Eric Warner, Graham Hough - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 314 pages
...never was! I do not believe that the Virginian who, in the full tide of democracy, could calmly write: 'The people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them', can ever have been the victim of modern wisdom; and 'The nose of a mob is its imagination; by this... | |
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the people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them. 
