"Detractor" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... M'Dermot also took a hand in the fight—all against Bowles—and William Roscoe, the author of the "Life of Lorenzo de Medici," attacked him in an edition of Pope which he brought out in 1824. The rash detractor of the little Twitnam nightingale soon found himself engaged single-handed against a host; but he was equal to the occasion, in volubility if not in logic, and poured out a series of pamphlets, covering in all some thousand pages, and concluding ...
— A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century • Henry A. Beers
... superscription, but not permitting her to see that the seal was unbroken,) "no doubt you recognise the hand; the hand of that anonymous detractor who had previously taken so much pains to convince the husband that his wife was ...
— Jane Talbot • Charles Brockden Brown
... literature in the false guise of urbanity and candor merely to conceal an incapable and huckstering soul, he only awakens for himself the irrevocable contempt of the very mind that he would gall or subdue; since that mind, under such circumstances, invariably rises above its detractor, and leaves him exposed on the same creaking gibbet that he has prepared for the object of his fear ...
— Lippincott's Magazine. Vol. XII, No. 33. December, 1873. • Various
... Farr, mildly. He directed compelling gaze into the eyes of his detractor. "And you do not ...
— The Landloper - The Romance Of A Man On Foot • Holman Day |
