He, poor wretch, expected to see "rogue, scoundrel, libeler," inscribed; but there was, in fair round characters, the signature of the firm.
"McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader"
William Holmes McGuffey
The door was shut, and the libeler stood trembling before the libeled.
"McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader"
William Holmes McGuffey
He was represented-and in the absence of any intimate male friends to contradict the representation, it was certain to obtain some currency-as in his artistic person a sardonic libeler of mankind, who cared only to take foibles and vices for his subjects, and who either left goodness and virtue out of sight altogether, or represented them as the qualities of fools.
"The Human Comedy Introductions and Appendix"
Honore de Balzac Commentator: George Saintsbury