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" To reform and not to chastise I am afraid is impossible, and 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, without touching persons, may be safe fighting... "
The Adviser: Or, The Moral and Literary Tribunal ... - Page 214
by John Bristed - 1803
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The Age of Pope

John Dennis - 1896 - 276 pages
...touches more attractive than Dryden's. ' To attack vices in the abstract,' he said to Arbuthnot, ' without touching persons, may be safe fighting indeed, but it is fighting with shadows ; ' and Pope, under the plea of a detestation of vice, generally betrayed his contempt or hatred of...
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The Age of Pope (1700-1744)

John Dennis - 1908 - 288 pages
...touches more attractive than Dryden's. ' To attack vices in the abstract,' he said to Arbuthnot, ' without touching persons, may be safe fighting indeed, but it is fighting with shadows ; ' and Pope, under the plea of a detestation of vice, generally betrayed his contempt or hatred of...
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The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast ...

William Cowper Brann - 1919 - 336 pages
...Arbuthnot, Pope says : " To reform and not chastise I am afraid is impossible. . . . To attack vice in the abstract, without touching persons, may be...fighting indeed, but it is fighting with shadows. The fame of Demosthenes rests upon his Philippics. Catullus cauterized. Carlyle cut to the red, and...
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The Age of Pope (1700-1744)

John Dennis - 1924 - 280 pages
...touches more attractive than Dryden's. > * ' To attack vices in the abstract,' he said to Arbuthnot, 'without touching persons, may be safe fighting indeed, but it is fighting with shadows ; ' and Pope, under the plea of a detestation of vice, generally betrayed his contemj^LfixJiatred of...
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The Age of Pope: (1700-1744)

John Dennis - 1928 - 280 pages
...satirical touches more attractive than Dryden's. ' To attack vices in the abstract,' he said to Arbuthnot, 'without touching persons, may be safe fighting indeed, but it is fighting with shadows ; ' and Pope, under the plea of a detestation of vice, generally betrayed hia contempt or hatred of...
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English Satire: An Anthology

Norman Furlong - 1946 - 196 pages
...Precepts, as well as the best Laws, would prove of small use, if there were no Examples to inforce them. To attack Vices in the abstract, without touching...fighting indeed, but it is fighting with Shadows. General propositions are obscure, misty, and uncertain, compar'd with plain, full, and home examples...
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Resemblance & Disgrace: Alexander Pope and the Deformation of Culture

Helen Deutsch - 1996 - 300 pages
...Precepts, as well as the best Laws, would prove of small use, if there were no Examples to inforce them. To attack Vices in the abstract, without touching Persons, may be safe fighting indeed, but is fighting with Shadows. General propositions are obscure, misty, and uncertain, compar'd with plain,...
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The Cambridge Companion to Alexander Pope

Pat Rogers - 2007
...love for Virtue, without loving the Good. To reform and not to chastise, I am afraid is impossible ... To attack Vices in the abstract, without touching...fighting indeed, but it is fighting with Shadows. (Con, in, p. 419) NOTES 1. Selected Letters, ed. Howard Erskine-Hill (Oxford: Oxford University Press,...
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Common Sense Against Repeal, Issues 1-18

1844 - 156 pages
...and 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,...without touching persons, may be safe fighting indeed, for it is fighting with shadows. My greatest comfort and encouragement to proceed has been, to see...
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