William Gifford Quotes

William Gifford was an English critic, editor and poet, famous as a satirist and controversialist.

✵ 1756 – 31. December 1826
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William Gifford Quotes

“In all her charms, set Virtue in their eye,
And let them see their loss, despair, and—die!”

Virtutem videant, intabescantque relicta.

Translation of Persius, Satire III, line 71 (38).

“For none become at once completely vile.”
Nemo repente fuit turpissimus.

Translation of Juvenal's Satires, satire ii, line 120 (line 83, in the original).

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