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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
Even my protector—he who has sworn before God and man;—but you, Louisa, will reprehend my indiscreet expressions.
From The Sylph, Volume I and II by Georgiana Cavendish
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
I reprehend you for having forgotten, that, in proportion as you had rendered yourself formidable to our enemies, you should have been guarded and temperate in your deportment towards your fellow-citizens.
From The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools by Washington Irving
Why did he not clear himself in this,—how the whole church, men, women, children and all, did doctrinally reprehend him?
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie
Spelman, in replying to this concealed motive of the Catholic, reprehends him with equal humour and bitterness for his desire of roasting a Protestant parson.
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
He had a fine artistic sense, and Milton reprehends him for having made Shakespeare “the closest companion of his solitudes.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" by Various
Herein he goes beyond the bounds of knowledge, and indulges in the very dogmatism for which he reprehends the materialist.
From Flowers of Freethought (First Series) by G. W. (George William) Foote
He reprehends other anchorets, who, upon a pretence of continual prayer, did not work at certain hours of the day, making it a cloak of gluttony and laziness.
From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Alban Butler
Marville justly reprehends the fastidious feelings of those ingenious men who have resisted the solicitations of the artist, to sit for their portraits.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli
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
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It was demanded, what could be reprehended in it?
From The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) by David Laing
So much is this the case that it is somewhat to be reprehended as rendering afternoon teas too ceremonious in character.
From Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society by Maud C. Cooke
Now, Jack has appeared in this story in very awkward circumstances, engaging himself right and left to every young lady that he fancied, with a fatal thoughtlessness, that cannot be too strongly reprehended.
From The Lady of the Ice A Novel by James De Mille
This the curious Gul did clatter in the ears of Venus, reprehending her son.
From The Golden Asse by William Adlington
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
For it is a wonderful licentiousness that, discoursing of the same matters, he should when accusing Plato take away again those very things which himself sets down when reprehending Aristotle.
From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
Judith noted the other players not at all; her hot reprehending eyes were on the girl in the blue dress.
From Judith of the Cumberlands by Alice MacGowan
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
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