 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1886 - 304 pages
...bearbaitings. (Macaulay, it will be remembered, said that the Puritans disapproved of bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.) The humor of Hudibras is not of the finest. The knight and squire are discomfited in broadly comic... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1886 - 428 pages
...heretic only by arguments which made him out to be a murderer." " The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. " Besides these elements of epigram and antithesis, there is a vast wealth of illustration, brought... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1887 - 224 pages
...after. Macaulay employs this device with great effect. He has : " The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators." Swift was very fond of it. Thus he says : " The two maxims of a great man at court are, always to keep... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1887 - 494 pages
...after. Macaulay employs this device with great effect. He has : " The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators." Swift was very fond of it. Thus he says : " The two maxims of a great man at court are, always to keep... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1887 - 266 pages
...after. Macaulay employs this device with great effect. He has : " The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators." Swift was very fond of it. Thus he says : " The two maxims of a great man at court are, always to keep... | |
 | John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1887 - 414 pages
...heretic only by arguments which made him out to be a murderer." " The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the s-pectutors." Besides these elements of epigram and antithesis, there is a vast wealth of illustration,... | |
 | Appleton Morgan - 1887 - 380 pages
...and damned; the bear-pits were preached against; bear-baiting being denounced, not, as Macaulay said, because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectator; the May-poles were allowed to rot, and there was no more dancing around them on the village... | |
 | Philip Van Ness Myers - 1888 - 800 pages
...economy to extravagance, Bible1 Macaulay humorously insists that the Puritans opposed bear-baiting not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectator. study, psalm-singing, and exhorting to theatre-going, profanity, and carousing. The literature... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1889 - 172 pages
...visage . . . show your sheep-biting face ! " 8 A bear-bailing. "The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. Indeed, he generally contrived to enjoy the double pleasure of tormenting both spectators and bear."... | |
 | Sallust - 1889 - 136 pages
...for the chance of attacking the others ; as Macaulay says the Puritans abhorred bearbaiting, " not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators." jnventutem invasere, came upon the youth. — rapere, etc., histor. infin. — consumere, waste (in... | |
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The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. 
