"Libelous" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... madam—on which the lightning of expression plays, continually—to this stony, detestable, dead daub!—I could—And I will, too! Imposture! dead caricature of life and beauty, take that!" and he dashed his palette-knife through the canvas. "Libelous lie against nature and Mrs. Woffington, take that!" and he stabbed the canvas again; then, with sudden humility: "I beg your pardon, ma'am," said he, "for this apparent outrage, which I trust you will set down to the excitement attendant upon ...
— Peg Woffington • Charles Reade
... recall his order for the reading in the churches his Declaration of Indulgence, he seems to have felt tolerably sure of the court as it was already constituted. Two able and learned justices, however, Holloway and Powell, ventured the opinion that the petition was not libelous. ...
— Concerning Justice • Lucilius A. Emery
... This was Cooper, who gave us so many of the heroes of our childhood's delight, but who at this time was himself the hero of innumerable lawsuits, undertaken to chastise the press for what he believed to be unjust and libelous comments upon himself. Now that the uproar of that litigation is silent, and its occasion forgotten, it seems comical that a man for whom fame had already rendered a favorable judgment should be ...
— Literary and Social Essays • George William Curtis
... those celebrated Novels, By Mrs. ELIZA HAYWOOD," the forged author's name being emphasized in the largest possible type in the hope that a cursory glance at the title-page might deceive a prospective buyer.[17] Of her forty publications before 1728 only fifteen, of which five from their libelous nature could not be acknowledged, failed to sail openly under her colors. Only once did she employ any sort of pseudonym, and only in one case was her signature relegated to the end of the dedication.[18] ...
— The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood • George Frisbie Whicher |
