Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon Quote

You must not think that a satiric style allows of scandalous and brutish words; the better sort abhor scurrility.


The Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson: 10.[2] (ed. 1779)


You must not think that a satiric style allows of scandalous and brutish words; the better sort abhor scurrility.

You must not think that a satiric style allows of scandalous and brutish words; the better sort abhor scurrility.

You must not think that a satiric style allows of scandalous and brutish words; the better sort abhor scurrility.

You must not think that a satiric style allows of scandalous and brutish words; the better sort abhor scurrility.