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Only, I observe, that the great censors of wit and poetry, either produce nothing of their own, or what is more ridiculous than any thing they reprehend.
From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by John Dryden
I will take my liberty to praise what I like, as well as they do to reprehend what they do not like.”
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
And yet I cannot reprehend the flight, Or blame th'attempt, presuming so to soar; The mounting venture for a high delight Did make the honour of the fall the more.
From Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles Delia - Diana by Martha Foote Crow
If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!
From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by John Bartlett
Besides, they belong to the service of the Muse; and so the other servant of the Muse, the Satirist, as the superintendent of the household, may reasonably reprehend or commend them.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various
Mr. Hope wisely reprehends, for this reason, the arrangement of the main piers of St. Sophia at Constantinople.
From The Seven Lamps of Architecture by John Ruskin
There, this dæmon reprehends it, if it has acted on any false pretence; solemnly confirms what it says, if it asserts anything that is true; and conformably to its testimony passes sentence.
From Plutarch's Lives, Volume II by Aubrey Stewart
She hated his Calvinism, and thought that the spirit of scornful denunciation everywhere prevails when Cowper reprehends the errors of mankind.
From Anna Seward and Classic Lichfield by Stapleton Martin
Hence Pope Julius I reprehends some who "keep throughout the year a linen cloth steeped in must, and at the time of sacrifice wash a part of it with water, and so make the offering."
From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas
He denounces the Mexican war as unjust in its origin, but he reprehends its feeble conduct.
From The Brothers' War by John Calvin Reed
Ernesto, 91, was famously reprehended in public by Pope John Paul during a visit to Nicaragua in the 1980s.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2016
Yet that is what a crowd did at St. Louis last week and, curiously enough, its indecorum was too inevitable to be reprehended.
From Time Magazine Archive
In this faithful journal, I have ventured to smile at folly; I have honestly reprehended bad passions, and I have sincerely sympathized with their victims.
From A Morning's Walk from London to Kew by Richard Phillips
It is not only such boldness that is to be reprehended, but extravagance of costume.
From The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage
The impression of conceit was not diminished in their eyes by the freedom with which Davidson contradicted, corrected and reprehended other people.
From Memories and Studies by Henry James
We of to-day must not regard the last three passages cited from the Corpus Juris Civilis as particularly reprehending the property of the master in his slave.
From The Brothers' War by John Calvin Reed
Methought he made but a poor sermon, but long, and reprehending the common jollity of the Court for the true joy that shall and ought to be on these days.
From The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Richard Griffin, Baron Braybrooke
A relative of mine who is a monk," he said, "is always reprehending me, and saying: 'Lucas, you are a Free-Thinker.'...
From Cæsar or Nothing by Louis How
You may sneer at, you may censure, you may castigate them for what they really do, but beware of reprehending them for that which they have never done.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 by Various
In the stateroom Ramsey knelt, opened the trunk, then the tin box, and then, despite old Joy's reprehending moan, the document itself.
From Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi by George Washington Cable
