"Inveigh" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... this quotation from the marquis of Halifax, he proceeds to inveigh against the various kinds of luxury, in which ...
— The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) - Vol. IV • Theophilus Cibber
... temporary withdrawal from the Legislative Council, and the lengthened absence in England of Dr. Strachan, that sturdy ecclesiastic who was long the ruling spirit of the "Family Compact," emboldened the leaders of Reform to inveigh against the Hydra-headed abuses of the time, and sow broadcast the dragon-teeth of discontent and the seeds of ...
— An Algonquin Maiden - A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada • G. Mercer Adam
... us never throw up our hands in despair. Somebody—he must have been a tailor, or with sartorial proclivities—has said that there is a silver lining to every cloud. And so we all of us hold hands, which, among deuces and treys, have some court-cards. Let us not then inveigh against the goddess who blindly distributes them. Be it our aim to play those well which fall to our share, and not recklessly cast them away, because we find fewer of those broad-shouldered, goggle-eyed, party-colored gentry than we hoped for. No! let us tuck ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 • Various
... No man inveigh against the withered flower, But chide rough winter that the flower hath kill'd; Not that devour'd, but that which doth ...
— The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare • Henry Nicholson Ellacombe
... a crowd and a row, never fear! The new preacher of the Jesuits, who is fresh from Italy and knows nothing about our plot, is to inveigh in the market against the Jansenists and the Honnetes Gens. If that does not make both a crowd and a row, I do ...
— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby
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