In the more considerable of the elegiac fragments which have survived, he ridicules the doctrine of the migration of souls (xviii.), asserts the claims of wisdom against the prevalent athleticism, which seemed to him to conduce neither to the good government of states nor to their material prosperity (xix), reprobates the introduction of Lydian luxury into Colophon (xx.), and recommends the reasonable enjoyment of social pleasures (xxi.). [Please select]
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Even more than Addison he ridicules vice and makes virtue lovely. [Please select]
She despises children's balls, and ridicules children's rights and "Liliputian coquetry" with ribbons and feathers. [Please select]
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Froude ridicules and abuses this aristocracy, as unfit longer to govern the State, as a worn-out power that deserved to fall. [Please select]
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Dalrymple, Arthur, on schooldays of Borrow, 73-74; on Borrow and his wife, 225; ridicules story of lifesaving by Borrow at Yarmouth, 291. [Please select]
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He ridicules their morals and their offices as severely as he points out their impotency to bestow happiness. [Please select]
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He mocks them with provoking irony, and ridicules their want of success. [Please select]
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Miss Abbott ridicules the idea that the small-waisted dress is harmful to the wearer. [Please select]
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In the "Defense of Poesie" Sidney upholds the classics and ridicules the too ambitious scope of the English drama. [Please select]
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In other comedies he ridicules the philosophers, makes fun of the ordinary citizen's delight in sitting on jury courts and trying cases, and criticizes those responsible for the unfortunate expedition to Sicily. [Please select]
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