...that the best precepts, as well as the best laws, would prove of small use, if there were no examples to enforce them. To attack vices in the abstract,...fighting indeed ; but it is fighting with shadows. General propositions are obscure, misty, and uncertain, compared with plain, full, and home examples....

...Alexander the Great wept because he had not another world to conquer. Moses was the meekest of men. To attack vices in the abstract, without touching persons, may be safe fighting indeed, but it ia fighting with shadows. Like the dew on the mountain, Like the foam on the river, Like the bubble...

...that the best precepts, as well as the best laws, would prove of small use, if there were no examples to enforce them. To attack vices in the abstract,...may be safe fighting indeed, but it is fighting with shadows.3 General propositions are obscure, misty, and 1 Bevis Mount, the residence of contents is...

...writings ever did any good, or had any weight, has been that they raised the anger of bad men. And my greatest comfort, and encouragement to proceed,...see, that those who have no shame, and no fear of anything else, have appeared touched by my satires. As to your kind concern for my safety, I can guess...

...that the best precepts, as well as the best laws, would prove of small use, if there were no examples to enforce them. To attack vices in the abstract,...thing else, have appeared touched by my satires." 160 JUNIUS. that you could be the author of that most inhuman letter to the duke of Bedford, I have...

...spear-thrusts in it, for it has about that number of lines. Dryden's character, like that of many smaller * " To attack vices in the abstract without touching persons,...safe fighting indeed, but it is fighting with shadows " (Pope to Arbuthnot). , bTthe "No Popery" cry, Dryden ap^ared in the i rfcaractcr of a theologian,...

...spear-thrusts in it, for it has about that number of lines. Dryden's character, like that of many smaller * " To attack vices in the abstract without touching persons,...safe fighting indeed, but it is fighting with shadows " (Pope to Arbuthnot). men, was a strange compound. His one object as a poet was to please the public,...

...pervades some minds in antagonism to partisanship has been nourished by the cry of " measures, not men." " To attack vices in the abstract, without touching...fighting indeed, but it is fighting with shadows." These words of Pope were taken by Junius to enforce his opinion that '"measures and not men' is the...

...Pope maintained that satire was use\ less if not personal. To attack vices in the abstract, he said, " without touching persons, may be safe fighting indeed, but it is fighting with shadows," and it must be remembered that to this view of his craft we are indebted for the " Dunciad." which...

...secret tor sending on quicker the sluggish blood, and for refreshing the faded nerve. — Sydney Smith. To attack vices in the abstract, without touching persons, may be safe fighting indeed, but it is fightiug with shadows. — Junius. What once were vices are now the manners of the day. — Seneca....