| John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 Seiten
...humble there '& no place like home. [From Debrett's Asylum for Fugitive Pieces, 1795.] An Expostulation. Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love But — why did you kick me down stairs ? From the Resolutions presented to the House of Representatives, December, 1799. Prepared by General... | |
| 1856 - 506 Seiten
...and ornaments, which their axes and hammers have demolished, might justly cry out from the earth, " Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love ; But why did you kick us down stairs?"). " But Papists may seem somewhat to be commended too in adding the cedar and gold,... | |
| Frances Milton Trollope - 1857 - 864 Seiten
...Barnaby, and had she known them, she would very likely have parodied against herself the famous lines — Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs ? heroic tone for one of familiar kindness, and said, " I must not let you, Mrs. Allen Barnaby, and... | |
| 1891 - 906 Seiten
...class in opposing the steadfast policy of the emperors in favor of liberal and popular measures." 11 Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you klek me downstairs ? " Biography. Havelock, by Archibald Forbes. (Macmillau.) A number of English Men... | |
| 1858 - 444 Seiten
...that reminds us a little of the complaint of an ill-used lover which we have somewhere heard : — " Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs ?" (To be continued.} LXIL— OPEN COUNCIL. [As these pages are intended for general discussion, the... | |
| Alexander Bain - 1859 - 702 Seiten
...realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take, and sometimes tea." ' Or in the remonstrance to a lady : — ' Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs ?' ' But the more perfect the fusion of the two hostile ingredients, or the more impossible it is rendered... | |
| Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1861 - 406 Seiten
...not incompatible with affectionate esteem, can hardly be reconciled with imaginative romance — " Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs ? " " His ugly old wife," says the reviewer, " was an angel." Yes, an angel so far as exalted language... | |
| Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1861 - 410 Seiten
...not incompatible with affectionate esteem, can hardly be reconciled with imaginative romance — " Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs ? " " His ugly old wife," says the reviewer, " was an angel." Yes, an angel so far as exalted language... | |
| John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 Seiten
...— When late I attempted your pity to move, Why seem'd you so deaf to my prayers ? Perhaps it wns right to dissemble your love, But — why did you kick me down stairs ? ANGNYMOUS. — From a Comedy in Three Acts called "The Panel," Scene 4 ; JTotes and Queries, 801.... | |
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