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Let none rebuke me then, none reprehend, If love so great to madness driveth me!
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds
What a man saith well is not, however, to be rejected because he hath some errors; reprehend who will, in God’s name, that is, with sweetness and without reproach.
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
Now, then, look at my neck and see if it is fatter than your master’s, and if you can justly reprehend me.”
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea
I am beginning to fear," said Rustem, "that Topaz may have been right to reprehend me for this journey, and I very wrong to undertake it.
From Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
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
Our Saviour never in any single instance reprobated the exercise of reason: on the contrary, he reprehends severely those who did not exercise it.
From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
Another talented zoologist, Hans Driesch, dedicates to the memory of Wigand two books in rapid succession and reprehends the contemporaries of that master of science for ignoring him.
From At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers by Edwin V. O'Harra
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
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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Denison was informed, and through him, the chief justice, that his conduct to this judge was decidedly reprehended by the crown.
From The History of Tasmania, Volume I by John West
Let the reins of government, then, be braced and held with a steady hand, and every violation of the constitution be reprehended.
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
Such jokes are entirely out of place and cannot be too strongly reprehended.
From From Place to Place by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
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
Then pardon me for reprehending thee, For thou hast done a charitable deed.
From The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
It does not assume the office of reprehending or warning through a motive of bitter zeal.
From Fraternal Charity by Benôit Valuy
R arrogated to himself the right of reprehending every one who differed from him.
From Notes and Queries, Number 20, March 16, 1850 by Various
The excellent Jonas Hanway wrote a pamphlet reprehending this objectionable custom.
From De Libris: Prose and Verse by Austin Dobson