I have called," added he, "in consequence of a scurrilous attack made upon me, and an unwarrantable liberty taken with the name of a young lady.
This scurrilous epitaph produced a burst of public indignation that awed for a time even the infamous Kenrick into silence.
The scurrilous satire of Kenrick, however unmerited, may have checked Goldsmith's taste for masquerades.
The Roman people hated him with a deadly hatred, and Pasquino[428] was inexhaustibly fruitful in stinging epigrams and scurrilous verses on the new pope and his electors.
Luther did not venture into the lists with the savagely sarcastic monk, but the humanists poured upon him a flood of scurrilous replies.
It was extorted from Carver that Madame Bonneville, having seen his scurrilous letter to Paine, threatened to prosecute him; also that he had taken his wife to visit Madame Bonneville.
A modest confutation of a slanderous and scurrilous libell, entituled, Animadversions [by John Milton] upon the remonstrants' defense against Smectymnuus.
It was a prodigy of scurrilous invective, bettering the bad example which Milton had set (but which hundreds in that age had set him) of ridiculing Salmasius's foibles when he should have been answering his arguments.
This he gratified by reprinting in his own Magazine one of the most scurrilous and foolish attacks.
Why, what unhallowed ruffian would have writ In such a scurrilous manner to a friend!
Is it conceivable that after all Jonson was ridiculing Marston, and that the point of the satire consisted in an intentional confusion of "the grand scourge or second untruss" with "the scurrilous and profane" Chester?
I received scurrilous letters through the post, and bands of singers would stop under my window and chant my shameful history from beginning to end.
That is an effective way to silencescurrilous tongues.
The next issue of the Standard failed to mention the editorial visit to Bloomtown; but the scurrilous articles ceased and there was quiet again.
The rain poured in torrents, but Bloomtown cast her record vote--and not one scurrilousvote against him dropped into the ballot box.
To think that the lady who was the dearest to me in the world should be thus maltreated by scurrilous knaves of dragoons stirred me to fury.
The irresponsible and scurrilous Callender, hard-pressed for some pretext to assail Marshall, complained of his having procured the appointment of relatives to the Judiciary establishment.
Hence, it is said, he was surnamed Sylla, and in allusion to it one of thescurrilous jesters at Athens made the verse upon him, Sylla is a mulberry sprinkled o'er with meal.
Thus with talents well endued To be scurrilous and rude; When you pertly raise your snout, Fleer and gibe, and laugh and flout; This among Hibernian asses For sheer wit and humour passes.
Grant that the journals often give place to things scurrilous and base; but can there be anything baser or more scurrilous than are suffered to run riot in books?
Scurrilous discourse even among men he abhorred; and though he sometimes took pleasure in wit and mirth, yet that which was mixed with impurity he never could endure.
He rode up, and found that the object of curiosity was a scurrilous placard against himself.
It was supposed that Lord Temple secretly encouraged the most scurrilous assailants of the government.
Maria Theresa herself had not escaped his scurrilous jests.
The Tory Johnson had in his Dictionary given so scurrilous a definition of the word Excise, that the Commissioners of Excise had seriously thought of prosecuting him.
Cochlaeus] has never yet, so far as I know, disclosed what are his own opinions about Christian doctrine; and therefore his empty and scurrilous treatises miss their mark, and are justly held in derision by learned men.
And then they added some sentences, which were afterward declared by the venerable victim to be as scurrilous as other portions of the pamphlet were profane.
The old scurrilous ballads against the mass and relics were heard in the streets.
There was no way to express his fierce resentment but in writing, and he wrote some scurrilous letters to the ones against whom he was so angry.
War times and periods of great public agitation have always brought forth in every free country the most scurrilous and vicious denunciations and slanders of public men.
