 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1883 - 624 Seiten
...by blessing. As to the suppression of the good1 whilst all the evil has been told with emphasis— ' Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me downstairs ?' All things considered, therefore, he must not be surprised if we decline to receive '... | |
 | 1883 - 860 Seiten
...by blessing. As to the suppression of the good whilst all the evil has been told with emphasis — Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down-stairs? All things considered, therefore, he must not be surprised if we decline to receive "... | |
 | 1827 - 632 Seiten
...at the risk of our receiving him in his retreat with the sad burden oif a certain merry long,— ' Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick us down stairs ?' To be serious, however, on what is certainly a 'erious subject. Everyman who supports... | |
 | Frederick Langbridge - 1883 - 438 Seiten
...(K. Paul.) WHEN late I attempted your pity to move, What made you so deaf to my prayers ? Ferhap . it was right to dissemble your love, But — why did you kick me downstairs ? UNKNOWN. A PLACE in thy memory, dearest, Is all that I claim, To pause and look back when... | |
 | Charlotte M. Yonge - 1884 - 616 Seiten
...[Eri.] Priscilla.— ' When late I attempted your pily to move. Why seem'd you so deaf to my prayers V Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stair« ?' will be found in an old comedy in three acts, called ' The Panel,' in act 1, scene 1. Grocott,... | |
 | 1884 - 540 Seiten
...cariad yr Arglwyddi at y mesur yn angerddol, ond gallai yntau, yn ngeiriau can JP Kemble, ddyweyd — Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me downstairs ? Cyfeiriai Mr. Bright yn hapus yn ei araeth yn Manchester at gwestiwn tra pherthynasol... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1885 - 394 Seiten
...always supercilious, often insulting, and sometimes even brutal tone of British journals and public men has certainly not tended to soothe whatever resentment...dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs V " We have no reason to complain that England, as a necessary consequence of her clubs, has become... | |
 | Francis Barton Gummere - 1885 - 280 Seiten
...purposes of mere wit: — " When late I attempted your pity to move, What made you so deaf to my prayers? Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But, — why did you kick me down stairs ? " These examples of intentional anticlimax are, of course, to be held apart from the rhetorical fault... | |
 | John Hill (novelist.) - 1885 - 310 Seiten
...: — The thin edge of the wedge. A red herring dragged across the scent. Meddling and muddling. " Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs?" " Within measurable distance of " anything the speaker thought proper. Peace where there is no peace.... | |
 | Canada. Parliament. House of Commons - 1910 - 1224 Seiten
...FIELDING. The hon. gentleman says he is not hostile. One is reminded of the old lines: It is all very well to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs? If the hon. gentleman was in favour of the French treaty he took a queer way of showing it to this... | |
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