 | A. W. Ward, A. R. Waller - Literary Criticism - 1976 - 408 pages
...as if a man would in cold blood cut men's throats, who had never offended him. And he said, the lyes in these Libels came often in as ornaments that could...be spared without spoiling the beauty of the Poem.' His masterpiece, without doubt, is A Satire against Mankind. Imitated from Boileau, it bears in every... | |
 | Johannes Prinz, John Wilmot Earl of Rochester - Poets, English - 1927 - 512 pages
...was as if a man would in cold blood, cut mans throats who had never offended him : And . . . the Lyes in these Libels came often in as Ornaments that could not be spared without spoiling the beauty of the Poem"163). This is more than an occasional remark, it is a characteristic and important confession... | |
 | John Harold Wilson - Courts and courtiers - 1976 - 332 pages
...to embroider fact with fiction. Lord Rochester defended "the lies in his libels" by saying that they "came often in as ornaments that could not be spared without spoiling the beauty of the poem."8 A naive anonymous poet put the matter more simply in "Scandal Satyrd" [1682], Poets may add,... | |
 | Dustin H. Griffin - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 260 pages
...agreed with Rochester, who confessed without shame that he "mixed Lies with Truth" in his satires: "The lies in these Libels came often in as Ornaments...could not be spared without spoiling the beauty of the Poem."99 To some extent, such squinting and lying are the result of deliberate choice; but as the satire... | |
 | R. C. Alston, Robin Alston - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 232 pages
...he was unable 'to make a Satyre without Resentments, upon the cold Notions of Phylosophy ', and that 'the Lies in these Libels came often in as Ornaments...could not be spared without spoiling the beauty of the Poem.'95 To fulfil this side of his art as a satirist, Rochester seemingly was ready to create a serious... | |
 | Rose A. Zimbardo - History - 1998 - 222 pages
...wit's craquelure designs. Burnet tells us that Rochester "said the lies [in his writing] came often as Ornaments that could not be spared without spoiling the beauty of the Poem." 25 The art of the Restoration wit satirist—Rochester, Oldham,Wycherley, Etherege, or the early Swift—is... | |
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To this he answered, a man could not write with life unless he were heated by revenge ; for to write a satire without resentments, upon the cold notions of philosophy, was as if a man would, in cold blood, cut men's throats who had never offended him... 
