Marino made fun of it in a sonnet; Murtola retorted; and a warfare of invectives began which equaled for scurrility and filth the duels of Poggio and Valla.
There are too much low wit andscurrility in Plautus.
There is too much low wit and scurrility in Plautus.
But nothing can excuse or reconcile us to the indecentscurrility with which he is assailed in Milton's pages, which reflect more discredit on him who wrote them, than on him against whom they are written.
I think the Areopagitica has few or no offences against taste; on the other hand, it has few or none of those grand passages which redeem the scurrility of his political pamphlets.
The word Gazetteer is now defined without that insolent scurrility formerly quoted.
Thus his reputation as a Scots master of scurrility and a vicious scandalmonger was earned on both sides of the Atlantic.
Of the tracts which they published at this time, the most remarkable was written by a deprived priest named Grascombe, of whose ferocity and scurrility the most respectable nonjurors had long been ashamed.
Jacobites to Beveridge, one mild and decent, the other scurrilous even beyond the ordinary scurrility of the nonjurors.
He has been converted into a sort of martyr, and whatever may have been thought of the vulgar scurrility of the language, ruin and imprisonment will appear to most people too severe a punishment for the offence.
Jefferson said in his day that the scurrility of the press drove away the best men from public life, and would certainly have driven away Washington had he lived to suffer from its growing excesses.
He left the bar with a competence fairly earned, which his prudence and skill made grow into an ample fortune, without even malicious suggestion in the scurrility of politics that he had profited out of public offices.
Bradlaugh was never coarse; yet he was abused with unspeakable scurrility by thousands of Christian people.
Footnote 146: "Language fit for a Yahoo," was the description given of Hay's scurrility by the Scotsman.
Of course such a testimony did little to check thescurrility of Tory tongues.
The Duke, on moving the second reading of his Bill, took occasion to scold Bradlaugh after his manner for "violence and scurrility," denying by implication that the violence and scurrility were on the other side.
He prepared and published a pamphlet, in which he gave vent to such scurrility as it seems incredible that any man of education, or even of decent social training, could ever have descended to write.
It reeked with scurrility and disloyalty from beginning to end.
The scurrility made its way into the dissentient's town, it furnished his competitor with means to supplant him, and he took care to shun the rock his predecessor had split upon.
Kenrick's article in the London Packet remains to this day as the vilest example of scurrility published under the form of criticism.
Goldsmith read the first part of the scurrility without feeling hurt; but when he came to that vile passage--"For hours the great Goldsmith will stand arranging his grotesque orangoutang figure before a pier-glass.
It was when he was lying in his coffin, yet unburied, that Kenrick made his next attack upon him in that scurrility of phrase of which he was a master.
We called on him to maintain here those doctrines which he had proclaimed elsewhere with so much vehemence, and, I am sorry to be forced to add, with a scurrility unworthy of his parts and eloquence.
He does not imitate the scurrility and abusiveness of his adversary, though he must have been sorely tempted sometimes, to say some plain things about paganism.
But the impudent scurrility of the passage about the bats, frogs, and worms, rouses Origen's indignation.
All this moreover they have poured forth in a vein of Scurrility which hath disgraced the Press with every abusive Term in our Language.
What, in fact, might not the United States say, when revolutions and democratic Governments come in for a large charge of the scurrility lavished on those of France?
