And the prophets, in spite of their virulency, produced the highest forms of artistic beauty.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
But I wonder why our Author is so eager for the calling them to account as Accessaries to an Invective against a third Estate of the Kingdom, while he himself is guilty in almost every sentence of his discourse of aspersing the King, even in his own Person, with all the virulency and Gall imaginable.
"His Majesties Declaration Defended"
John Dryden
Hence comes the epidemical infection: for how can they escape the contagion of the writings whom the virulency of the calumnies hath not staved off from reading?
"Colloquies on Society"
Robert Southey