| 单词 | scurrility |
| 例句 | Someone has been in this motel room all night, strewing scurrilities. In Michel Houellebecq’s ‘Serotonin,’ the Provocative Beat Goes On (and On) 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z The overture to The Marriage of Figaro brought scurrility and grandeur into collision, with often unnerving effect. OAE/Cohen review 2011-01-05T22:01:01Z An editorial in The Washington Post was later to describe it as “last-minute scurrility.” It was the election outcome that shocked everyone: Montgomery County in 1962 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z He delivered himself of this inaccurate scurrility: “Let’s remember when Hitler won his election in 1932,” he told BBC Radio London. Stop the Surge of Anti-Semitism in the U.K. 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Both parties gradually lost their temper and published against each other letters filled with scurrility. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z They are to be known by their modesty and precision of speech, avoiding scurrility and detraction and light words and lies and oaths. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z Complaints of his flippancy, his persiflage, his ridicule, his scurrility, his etc., came, and still come, from the enemy, and show that his blows told and tell. Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works 2012-03-14T02:00:25.570Z "Policemen" denounced the "scurrility" of his words, and the absurdity of his doctrines. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z Incensed by E. P.'s scurrility, L'Estrange replied within three days to all of his charges in A Short Answer to a Whole Litter of Libels. Citt and Bumpkin (1680) 2011-12-21T03:00:27.683Z I have already touched upon the scurrilities and obscenities which were common in improvised comedy. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z She did not stay to change her dress; she passed her suitors still quoting scurrility, one against the other in the wind and rain, without a smile of recognition or sympathy. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z Yet, incredible as would seem, the abuse and scurrility with which both it and its author were loaded, discloses one of the most disgraceful chapters in the records of political fanaticism. Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches 2011-11-04T02:00:19.293Z Thus his reputation as a Scots master of scurrility and a vicious scandalmonger was earned on both sides of the Atlantic. Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works 2011-10-18T02:00:19.057Z It declares that "Americans shan't rule us—Papists" It has for years been spewing forth its malicious tirades against Protestant Americans, while the real author of this scurrility, Bishop Hughs, is skulking behind the bush. Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete 2011-10-12T02:00:45.373Z The "scurrility" referred to may have been that of George Chalmers, elsewhere mentioned. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett 2011-10-12T02:00:38.787Z You must of necessity add to your opprobriousness by including Miss Ferguson among those whom you choose to insult, and attack her with your scurrility. Fern Vale (Volume 3) or the Queensland Squatter 2011-09-30T02:00:17.137Z Most of the newspapers contain nothing but scurrility and abuse. My Memoirs 2011-09-13T02:00:28.713Z The word Gazetteer is now defined without that insolent scurrility formerly quoted. Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works 2011-10-18T02:00:19.057Z This, a tract designed to inquire seriously of a weighty and essential, not a trifling thing, which requires but a trifling examination; nor shall it be handled here with satire and scurrility. An Answer to a Question that Nobody thinks of, viz., But what if the Queen should Die? 2011-07-11T02:00:07.563Z His power of venting ingenious and fantastic scurrility on these occasions might have rivalled that of Thersites, the “deformed and scurrilous Grecian.” By Veldt and Kopje 2011-06-15T02:00:20.067Z Murray, who had a share in the magazine, soon began remonstrating against its scurrilities, and on their continuance withdrew his capital. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z But when raillery passed into railing, and sarcasm sunk into scurrility, in these unhappy polemical effusions, our critics have bitterly censured the intolerance and bigotry of Sir Thomas More. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Compare their moderation and good manners with the furious zeal and scurrility of their adversaries, and you will be convinced of the truth of my observation. Essays 2011-05-19T02:00:06.077Z The contributor has already lapsed from simple fatuity into fatuity compound with scurrility. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z The examination of the witnesses was in perfect keeping with the infamous scurrility of the speech, and the testimony elicited went to prove everything the advocate desired. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:06.657Z It is fair to note that the mistress thus depicted as Southey’s is an allegorical being, while the Blackwood scurrilities were often directly personal. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z They are full of trifling, and are more loaded than those of any other comedy of Plautus, with quaint conceits, the quibbling witticisms, and the scurrilities of slaves. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The book was attacked—not wholly to Hume's dissatisfaction, for he appreciated fame as well as success—"with all the illiberal petulance, arrogance, and scurrility which distinguish the Warburtonian school." Essays 2011-05-19T02:00:06.077Z Other prominent personages came in for scurrility equally coarse. The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 2011-03-23T02:00:23.527Z They exemplify every variety of sentiment and taste, from lofty pathos and dignified eulogy to coarse buffoonery and the vilest scurrility. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Emser warned his Bohemian friends against Luther, and Luther retorted with an attack on Emser which outdid in scurrility all his polemical writings. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z The character, too, gave scope for those jests and scurrilities, which seem to have been indispensable ingredients in a Roman comedy, but which would be unsuitable in the mouths of more dignified persons. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z "William Shakespeare, I suppose you mean," said that youth himself, who at the moment entered unperceived, and stood smiling at the door whilst he listened to the scurrility of Grasp. William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z Until within the last hundred years, English writers habitually wrote of Wales with contempt and even scurrility. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z Shakespeare, himself probably the greatest exponent of the arts of scurrility, is totally exempt from any blameworthy intention in applying the word in the manner he so frequently uses it. A Cursory History of Swearing He also commenced the publication of a newspaper which was conducted with great ability—free from all personal abuse and scurrility—a messenger of truth and wholesome instruction. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution Lies, calumnies, and scurrility were vomited against him and his profession. The Progressionists, and Angela. Phrases of the grossest scurrility were hurled at eminent people by their names. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second The papers display’d his great share of wit, If scurrility ever an opponent can hit. The Independent Statesmen, and Liberal Landlord or a respectful tribute to T. W. Coke, M.P. for the County of Norfolk It is quite clear that in this instance there is a marked and deep interval between the outgoing of the old form of scurrility and the advent of the new. A Cursory History of Swearing They soared above the acrimonious scurrility of venal party spirit. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution The last of May of the first year he had brought all his charges against Grafton, and to them there had been no response but "the flat general charge of scurrility and falsehood." Junius Unmasked or, Thomas Paine the author of the Letters of Junius and the Declaration of Independence The latter, as editor of the journal L'Univers, brought remarkable wit and a faculty of slashing criticism, not often equalled, to the service of his party, indulging, however, too often in mere scurrility. A Short History of French Literature As Lord Rigglesworth writes, 'R. N. has got up your whole biography, and is fully bent on making you the theme of one of his amusing scurrilities. The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly In the last contest much of the "stump" speaking was the veriest twaddle, an appeal to prejudice, and hate, and sectionalism, full of scurrility, personality, and vulgar anecdote. The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. He is supposed to be the author of most of the scurrility poured out in the New-York papers against the new constitution. Essays on the Constitution of the United States It is said of him that what he lacked in learning he made up for in scurrility, so that he himself complains that his own brother-monks wanted to forbid his writing. Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume I) The scurrility with which the debates of the Reformation were carried on on both sides is but too well known. A Short History of French Literature All scurrility, jests, and idle words were to be avoided; and after any foolish saying, the repetition of the Lord's Prayer was enjoined. Old and New London Volume I A few years since, some Westminster scholars received great insult from a hackney-coachman, who treated them with the greatest scurrility, because they would not comply with an overcharge in his fare. Apparitions; or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed He said the advertisement was "a false, wicked, malicious, scandalous, and seditious libel;" "full of ribaldry, Billingsgate, scurrility, balderdash, and impudence;" "wicked is a term too high for this advertisement;" "its impudence disarmed its wickedness." The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence Satire never in his hands degenerated into savagery or scurrility. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. Dull Catholic lampoons and Puritan scurrilities did not pass thus unnoticed. Spenser He was the spirit of scurrility incarnate, that was, as people say, innate; and by virtue of those moulding forces he was doing his best to be an English gentleman. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman Who could imagine that the writers of these scurrilities were learned men, and that their patrons were men of rank! Calamities and Quarrels of Authors But as a controversialist he was an infinitely stronger man than his opponent, and unlike Warburton, he never debased controversy by scurrility, which the bishop generally found a more potent weapon than argument. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) Quite as decisively as Luther, though with less passion and scurrility, he condemns the adoration of saints, which he calls a "downright folly." Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) And then the deputation passed again in its motley gear through the swarming streets of buffoons, through the avenue of scurrilities, to renew its hypocritical protestations before the throne of the Senator. Dreamers of the Ghetto There is an innocency in his very coarseness, and a brisk, bright good-nature chirps in his very scurrility. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 A ridiculer then is the best champion to meet another ridiculer; their scurrilities magically undo each other. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors But his malice and ill-nature were frightful; and withal his love of scurrility and abuse quite intolerable. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Yet, when all coarseness, all scurrility, all Mephistophelean contempt for the reverent feelings of other men, is removed, there will be a plenteous remainder of exquisite poetry, of wit, humor, and just thought. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete I think I shall avoid all railing accusations, all personal abuse; there being something so low and mean in scurrility, that it can never help the cause of pure and undefiled religion. A Solemn Caution Against the Ten Horns of Calvinism For the calm, guarded, and sternly courteous language which governments had long been accustomed to employ, were substituted puns, interjections, Ossianic rants, rhetoric worthy only of a schoolboy, scurrility worthy only of a fish-wife. Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) His speeches on the route were a volcanic outbreak of vulgarity, conceit, bombast, scurrility, ignorance, insolence, brutality, and balderdash. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 Thus to some extent it is due to the scurrility of Eck that the contemplated Apology was transformed into an all-embracing Confession, a term employed by Melanchthon himself. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange without heresy.—Shakespeare. Pearls of Thought This is personal to the verge of scurrility: but in literary controversy the challenger names the weapons, and Mr. Smith begins with charge of ignorance, folly, and dishonesty, by conditional implication. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II Bunyan had a perfect wealth of sectarian scurrility at his command. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis Never has the strife of warring parties been carried on with so utter an absence of truth or fairness; never has the language of political opponents stooped to such depths of coarseness and scurrility. History of the English People, Volume VII The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767 July 14 Melanchthon reported he had heard from friends that the Confutation was "long and filled with scurrilities." Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Not that scurrility and the basest of personalities from Mr O'Connell are either novelties, or difficult to bear. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Jerome's attack on Vigilantius is in many respects a masterpiece of scurrility, and unworthy of the ability of the man. A Source Book for Ancient Church History Indeed, as we have seen, he has struck hastily in many directions; but, save in his years of indiscretion, he has scarcely ever been guilty of anything approaching scurrility. The History of "Punch" Just as in the case of the other gods there is hardly one that has not been reviled, or escaped the scurrility of ignorance. Plutarch's Morals At first they patched together an enormous volume, as Faber is known to be a verbose compiler; the book grew by reason of the multitude of its lies and scurrilities. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church I was honoured by the reproaches of several private and by the reprobation of several public critics; some correspondents favoured me with their anonymous scurrility, and some bigots relieved me of their acquaintance. Greece and the Allies 1914-1922 Personality and scurrility appear to have gone out of fashion, and such attacks as that from which the Duke of Buckingham suffered in the columns of a provincial paper, are of very rare occurrence. Memoirs of the Court of George IV. 1820-1830 (Vol 1) From the Original Family Documents He entirely fails only when he goes below the level of poetry altogether and repeats in verse the angry scurrility of his divorce pamphlets. Milton But he was not alone in his scurrility. The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion He is intemperate and violent, he heaps up personal scurrilities against his adversaries, and triumphs in their misfortunes. Milton But these instances are too rare to warrant the slanders and scurrility that historians have heaped upon them. Bibliomania in the Middle Ages The breath was scarcely out of her body, when a flood of cowardly scurrilities was poured from the gutter press. The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert There is the low joke which arises from scurrility and idle conceit. Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources He prepared and published a pamphlet, in which he gave vent to such scurrility as it seems incredible that any man of education, or even of decent social training, could ever have descended to write. The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion These authorities he deployed at tedious length and followed them up with heavy scurrilities and "excusations," by way of attack and defense. Brief History of English and American Literature This had been promoted by the example hourly ringing in their ears of vernile scurrility. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg He had written against the hierarchy several tracts, such as Martin Marprelate, Theses Martinian�, and other compositions, full of low scurrility and petulant satire. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. Its public entry was rather obscure, except only that Dr. Hurd wrote a pamphlet against it, with all the illiberal petulance, arrogance, and scurrility, which distinguish the Warburtonian school. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part A. From the Britons of Early Times to King John It reeked with scurrility and disloyalty from beginning to end. The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion The brethren thrilled at the well-understood allusion to the speaker's abiding-place, while the outsiders, scenting a veiled scurrility, craned to listen and to watch. The Henchman The scurrility and odium with which they have been loaded is perfectly natural, and what the nature of their testimony would have led one to expect. Secret Societies And Subversive Movements The touching personal passage in this article reveals the misery caused by the unbridled scurrility of certain notorious publications of the last generation. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Both of these, however, may be referred to the words which may happen to be sinful, either by reason of excess which belongs to "loquaciousness," or by reason of unbecomingness, which belongs to "scurrility." Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province They accuse themselves of ingratitude and malignity when any one denies a lawful satisfaction to another, of indolence, of sadness, of anger, of scurrility, of slander, and of lying, which curseful thing they thoroughly hate. Ideal Commonwealths The licensing system continued in force, but was not made much use of, although the scurrilities of the press roused the Parliament every now and then into spasmodic efforts of repression. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 2, February, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy As the taste for music and rhythm became general in that sunny clime, even these rioters adopted a kind of verse, by which rustic genius could give additional point to scurrility. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour His first assailant was one of Clement's own physicians, who loaded him with scurrility in a formal letter. The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch From the bosom of my family I, as the head, naturally expect nothing but the foulest scurrility and derision. Berry And Co. There they were allowed to jest without scurrility, and were not to take it ill when the raillery was returned. Ideal Commonwealths Before was an ugly rush of water and a leap beyond her strength; behind, three drunken men, their mouths full of endearment and scurrility. The Half-Hearted At the same time native scurrility was allowed. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour Scurrilous stories of that type kill themselves by their very scurrility. The Enchanted Canyon "I suppose next," exclaimed the other, "you will attribute to the modern spiritualists the scurrility of the elder deists,—of Woolston, Tindal, and Collins?" The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic On the other hand, the gentle Hervey was quite incapable of writing the violent abuse, the bitter personal scurrilities, which disgraced Toplady's pen. The English Church in the Eighteenth Century I met their scurrilities without concern, while in pursuit of the great interests with which I was charged. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 His first writings here had fallen far short of his original 'Political Progress,' and the scurrilities of his subsequent ones began evidently to do mischief. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 The efficiency of a controversialist in the seventeenth century was almost estimated in the ratio of his scurrility, especially when he wrote Latin. Life of John Milton Although virulence in politics is frequent, scurrility is confined to a very few sheets. Town Life in Australia At last she was ordered to go to the window and address him in the language of abuse and scurrility. The Grounds of Christianity Examined by Comparing The New Testament with the Old Next day Boswell repented of the scurrility of what they had written and got Dempster to go with him to retrieve the copy. Critical Strictures on the New Tragedy of Elvira, Written by Mr. David Malloch In fact, he had an underground wire into the office of that weekly of spice and scurrility which might be tapped to oblige a friend. Success A Novel Enraged by his scurrility, and perhaps piqued by former quarrels, the purser cried out, A mutiny; adding, the dog has pistols, and then immediately fired himself a pistol at Cozens, but missed him. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Gifford, the manager of Goodman's Fields Theatre, professing to have received from some anonymous writer a play of singular scurrility, carried the work to the prime minister. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Never did an envenomed scurrility against everything sacred and civil, public and private, rage through the kingdom with such a furious and unbridled license. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) He possessed a wonderful dignity of language, could enliven his discourse with wit and pleasantry, never descending to vulgar humour; refined, and polished, without a tincture of scurrility. A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements How dared anyone in my uncle's house—in my house—mix my name up with her detestable scurrilities? Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh It has delighted in the lowest and basest scurrility even on the highest and most honorable lips. Addresses by the right reverend Phillips Brooks Town Crier.—This respectable specimen of a local comic appeared first in September, 1861, and it deserves a long life, if only for keeping clear of scandal and scurrility. Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham A History and Guide Arranged Alphabetically In a prefixed Epistle to the Reader there is a good deal of scurrility against Goodwin. The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 He recommended himself to the favour of the prince by his scurrility and vulgar humour. A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements His personality and scurrility were so indiscriminating and excessive that he was perhaps at this time the most unpopular member of the House. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 The many scurrilities I have heard and read against this poor paper of mine, are in such a strain, that considering the present state of affairs, they look like a jest. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer Oh! if the whole nation, to a man, were just so treated! begin with Argyle, and next with the fanatic dogs who teased him with their kirk scurrilities. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 10 Historical Writings A cloud of pamphlets followed the Letter to a Noble Lord—some in doggerel verse, others in a magniloquent prose imitated from his own, others mere poisonous scurrility. Burke The latter was one of the great Whig potentates, and it was characteristic of Creevey that his scurrility should have been poured out with a special gusto over his own leaders. Books and Characters French and English In a word, one of the finest literary monuments which our nation ever produced was received almost with scurrility. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 "But not to digress"—Pray, doth he call scurrility upon the clergy, a digression? The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 03 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 1 In these Journals he published many scurrilities against Mr. Pope; and in a pamphlet called, The Supplement to the Profound, he used him with great virulence, and little candour. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume V. I suppose the next shameful practice of ours they naturalize will be the personal scurrilities in the newspapers, especially on young and handsome women, in which we certainly are originals! Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II Notwithstanding his extraordinary expedition, there is a clear and lively simplicity in his wit, that is equally distant from the pedantry of learning, and the lowness of scurrility. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume IV Yet, when all coarseness, all scurrility, all Mephistophelean contempt for the reverent feelings of other men, is removed, there will be a plenteous remainder of exquisite poetry, of wit, humor and just thought. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy His answer to "The Medal" is entitled "The Medal of John Bayes:" it appeared in autumn 1681, and is distinguished by scurrility, even among the scurrilous lampoons of Settle, Care, and Pordage. The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author These authorities he deployed at tedious length, and followed them up with heavy scurrilities and "excusations," by way of attack and defense. From Chaucer to Tennyson Caricatures, lampoons, scurrilities, vulgarities and misrepresentations, the mean, were scattered on all sides. Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 However, he was so moved by the heat of youth and passion, that he wrote a quantity of iambic verses against Scipio, in the bitter, sarcastic style of Archilochus, without, however, his license and scurrility. Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans It is as uncharitable a point in us to fall upon those popular scurrilities and opprobrious scoffs of the Bishop of Rome, to whom, as a temporal prince, we owe the duty of good language. Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend But, says the chivalrous Picayune, the law of private vengeance does not apply to anything save grave offenses in scurrility. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 Nor was the contest of scurrility entirely one-sided. The United States Since the Civil War If he had, he would certainly have made it the subject of some more scurrilities. Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. He possessed a wonderful dignity of elocution, with an agreeable mixture of wit and pleasantry, which was perfectly genteel, and without the smallest tincture of scurrility. Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker. By this method, your literary article, for so it might be called, will, he thinks, be better recommended to the publick than by low jests, awkward buffoonery, or the dull scurrilities of either party. Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 Mingled with the scurrilities of the theological brawl are passages of the noblest English ever written. Milton The Comedian cannot pay heed to such fine distinctions, but belabours the whole tribe with indiscriminate raillery and scurrility. The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 In justice therefore to me and some others of my stamp, I entreat you to give us more verse, and less democratic scurrility. Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. I praise God for you, Sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange without heresy. The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded The haughty deportment of the officers, and the scurrility of the soldiers of the British army, he afterward said, soon dispelled his hopes of being treated with lenity. Life and Times of Washington, Volume 2 Revised, Enlarged, and Enriched I think the Areopagitica has few or no offences against taste; on the other hand, it has few or none of those grand passages which redeem the scurrility of his political pamphlets. Milton When the talk became mere scurrility and noise, he rose and went out. The History of David Grieve This accumulation of "bad names" and ingenious combination of scurrility is merely rhetoric. Ars Recte Vivendi; Being Essays Contributed to "The Easy Chair" Some are laughable enough, but the majority are so deplorably stupid, reeking with puns and scurrility, that when the temporary interest was gone, there was nothing left to attract the reader. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 2 As for the quirks of sage Philosophy, Or points of squirriliting scurrility, The one we shun, for childish years too rare, Th'other unfit for such as present are. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 These, two letters provoked a shower of rejoinders, in which, according to Cooper, misstatements were mingled with scurrility. Precaution Nor is it less apparent, that he who degrades debate into scurrility, and destroys the solemnity of consultation, endeavours to sink the senate into contempt. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 10 Parlimentary Debates I But I always sorted myself with persons of ingenuity, temperance, and sobriety; for I loathed scurrilities in conversation, and had a natural aversion to immoderate drinking. The History of Thomas Ellwood Written By Himself It has been observed, that Philips partiality for drinking and dancing, his drollery, and a dash of scurrility in his character, endeared him especially to the Thessalians. The Olynthiacs and the Phillippics of Demosthenes Literally translated with notes I should have thought this hint unnecessary, had not much nonsense and scurrility been unjustly imputed to him by the good judgment or good-nature of the age. The Works of Henry Fielding Edited by George Saintsbury in 12 Volumes Volume 12 Of this sentiment was our adventurer, though he could not help admiring the courage of the orator, and owning within himself, that he had mixed some melancholy truths with his scurrility. The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves It is hard to say which is most worthy of contempt—the appalling cynicism that prompted such scurrilities, or the amazing folly which mistook their vulgarity for wit. Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02 No laws of classification are so false as those which originate in human scurrility. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 "Yet there is something still more infamous than this anonymous scurrility—it is my own conduct." Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02 But there must be added a recollection of the scurrilities against the Covenant, the Assembly as a body, its chief Presbyterian members, and the whole Scottish nation and its agents. The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 When they have laid these foundations of scurrility, it is no wonder that their superstructure is every way answerable to them. The Coverley Papers It is quite as hopeless to fight Christianity with scurrility. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 It is the veriest bound slave that was ever hampered by the chains of party prejudice,—and the only attempt at freedom it ever makes in its lower grades is an occasional outbreak into scurrility! Ardath MY old friend the milk-woman has just brought out another book, to which she has prefixed my original preface to her first book, and twenty pages of the scurrility published against me in her second. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 With a calm reliance upon the fertile scurrility of our readers, we leave the matter in their hands, commending their souls to the merciful God who contrived them. The Fiend's Delight My predecessor did not remark their scurrility: he seems, on the contrary, rather to commend them for respectability in this point. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 About the doors of taverns and the haunts of discharged servants he lurked noiseless as a shadow, attentive alike to the careless revelations of intoxication or the scurrility of malignant slaves. Antonina Marie Antoinette wanted to find protection here from the dreadful anxiety that tortured her, as well as from the ribald jests and scurrility of her keepers. Marie Antoinette and Her Son The plot of his best pieces is borrowed, but not without judgment; his morale is fair, and he has only to avoid scurrility.' Letters to Dead Authors Never did an envenomed scurrility against everything sacred and civil, public and private, rage through the kingdom with such a furious and unbridled licence. Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke That is the origin of scurrilities only worthy of the stage and the platform. Letters of the Younger Pliny, First Series — Volume 1 And therefore an impertinent jeerer makes the whole company seem ill-natured and abusive, as being pleased with and consenting to the scurrility of the jeer. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies They accuse themselves of ingratitude and malignity when anyone denies a lawful satisfaction to another of indolence, of sadness, of anger, of scurrility, of slander, and of lying, which curseful thing they thoroughly hate. The City of the Sun An orator and practical debater, his refined tastes kept him from personality, and the public recognition of the complete unselfishness of his motives and the magnitude of his dogmas protected him from scurrility. The Story of a Mine Of the tracts which they published at this time, the most remarkable was written by a deprived priest named Grascombe, of whose ferocity and scurrility the most respectable nonjurors had long been ashamed. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 The Jacobites however contrived to discover or to invent abundant matter for scurrility and sarcasm. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 Never did an envenomed scurrility against everything sacred and civil, public and private, rage through the kingdom with such a furious and unbridled licence. Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and Speeches, etc. He need not fear that any member of that party will be provoked into a conflict of scurrility. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 For the calm, guarded, and sternly courteous language which governments had long been accustomed to employ, were substituted puns, interjections, Ossianic rants, rhetoric worthy only of a schoolboy, scurrility worthy only of a fishwife. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 Among the Tanner MSS. are two letters from Jacobites to Beveridge, one mild and decent, the other scurrilous even beyond the ordinary scurrility of the nonjurors. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 Smollett avers that he “has had the courage to call in question the talents of a pseudo-patron,” and so is charged with “insolence, rancour, and scurrility.” Adventures Among Books But what was lacking in the charge of the crown was soon made up by the abominable scurrility of the judge. Bunyan Characters (1st Series) I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange without heresy. Love's Labour's Lost In this paper were set forth, with a strength of language sometimes approaching to scurrility, many real and some imaginary grievances. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 M. Volney, though accused of Hottentotism and ignorance, preserved in his defence, all the advantages that the scurrility of his adversary gave over him. The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature He was, as usual, interrupted in his defence by ribaldry and scurrility from the judgment seat. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 |
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