blemishers

Updated: February 17, 2026

This jest will be perfectly intelligible to all who remember the eternally recurring allusions to Venus and Minerva, Mars, Cupid and Apollo, which were meant to be the ornaments, and are the blemishers, of Prior's compositions. But Portland was much puzzled.

Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay - The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5