..."Keats, Reynolds, and the 'Old Poets", Proceedings of the British Academy, XXV, Oxford, 1990, 183-85. cast into the mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude".24 Keats's letter implies the contrary: that, once free of an oppressive aristocratic system,...

...doctrines had been spread to those completely unfitted to receive them, 'learning will be cast down into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude' as also, he pointedly warned, would be 'its natural protectors and guardians'.9 Thus the quiet philosophical...

...Barbauld quotes a notorious phrase from Edmund Burke, Reflections on the late Revolution in France (1790): "Along with its natural protectors and guardians,...be cast into the mire, and trodden down under the hooÉ of a swinish multitude" (p. 95). She had been meditating a reply to Burke as early as February...

...Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and not aspired to be the master! Along with its natural protectors...trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.— EDMUND BURKE, Reflections on the Revolution in France When, in countries that are called civilized,...

...Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and not aspired to be the master! Along with its natural protectors...letters owe more than they are always willing to own to antient manners, so do other interests which we value full as much as they are worth. Even commerce,...

...which he attacks the leaders and principles of the French Revolution. His remark in the Refleaions that "Along with its natural protectors and guardians,...trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude" was often misconstrued to mean that he actually thought the people to be no better than swine (78)....

...Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and not aspired to be the master! Along with its natural protectors...mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.[a] If, as I suspect, modern letters owe more than they are always willing to own to antient...

...Happy if learning, not debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and not aspired to be the master! Along with its natural protectors...mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.'76 Shelburne's proteges did not know their proper place as ministering to the propertied;...

...fearful prediction in 1790 that the importing of revolutionary ideas into Britain would destroy learning: 'learning will be cast into the mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.'46 As we shall see, Tooke echoes Locke's endorsement of plain sense and rational analysis...

...debauched by ambition, had been satisfied to continue the instructor, and not aspired to be the master 1 Along with its natural protectors and guardians, learning...trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.* * See the fate of BaiBy and Condorcet, supposed to be hen particularly alluded to. Compare the cirenmstances...