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The obligations of his cotemporaries to Swift are not to be counted simply by what he was able to originate or to advocate in their behalf for not much could be done in that way, in such times, and in such a position as his but rather in regard to the enemies and maligners of that people, whom he exposed and punished.
The obligations of his cotemporaries to Swift are not to be counted simply by what he was able to originate or to advocate in their behalf for not much could be done in that way, in such times, and in such a position as his but rather in regard to the enemies and maligners of that people, whom he exposed and punished.
The charges against the artist have been long in existence, and have been formulated and reformulated in many countries. In fact Greece, rather than England, might with some justice be regarded as the parent of the poet's maligners, for Plato has been largely responsible for the hue and cry against the poet throughout the last two millennia.
The one possessed nothing to excite envy, and never gave offence; the other, by the very superiority of his natural powers, exultingly paraded, as they were, at the expense of dulness or unsuccessful rivalry, created many vindictive maligners, who let no opportunity pass of giving him behind his back the harsh word which they durst not give him to his face.
No gold or gems adorn the hilt of that war-worn scimitar; but there is blood upon the blade the blood of the enemies of my country, and the maligners of my honest fame. There are others, however the disgrace of a disgraceful trade who, borrowing from distance a despicable courage, have ventured to assail me.
A life sequestered from social intercourse, and remote from every prize which ambition holds worth the pursuit, or a lonely death, under forms, perhaps, the most appalling, these were the missionaries' alternatives. Their maligners may taunt them, if they will, with credulity, superstition, or a blind enthusiasm; but slander itself cannot accuse them of hypocrisy or ambition.
Franklin Pierce, the dragooner of Kansas, writes a letter in favor of free elections, and the maligners of New England propose a Connecticut Yankee as their favorite nominee.
She is by no means the staid old soul her maligners imagine never was there creature more changeable. As we move on, so will she move on with us. Once she allowed our squires to get drunk after dinner, now she is shocked at a one-bottle man. You will never shake her off, you brilliant young gentlemen.
Of their innocence of murder we were convinced. Their patriotic feelings, their religious devotion, we saw proved in the noble, the edifying manner of their death. We believed them to have been unjustly sacrificed in a moment of national passion; and we resolved to rescue their memory from the foul stains of their maligners, and make it a proud one for ever with Irishmen.
It has even been reported by maligners, that I sung a song while under this vinous influence; but, as I remember nothing of it, and never attempted to turn a tune in all my life before or since, I would willingly hope there is no actual foundation for the calumny. I was absurd enough without this exaggeration.
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