Calumny or Detraction.
The strongest, brightest light will always offend a weak, vitiated sight; and the lowest vermin will prey upon the fairest fruit. Thus detraction comes from the envious, and the base, and low-minded.
Goût and Gout—Lord Erskine.
Goût and Gout.
How is’t the French in all they do
Have Goût, while we’re without?
Nature, who gives them simply Goût,
Has changed our Goût to gout!