| Charlotte Smith - 1807 - 236 pagina’s
...Wall Newt of Shakspeare, as part of the food of poor Tom: " The wall newt and the water newt, With rats and mice and such small deer, Have been Tom's food for many a year." And is commonly known by the name of Evett or Eft ; and from its ugliness is held in abhorrence, and... | |
| 1837 - 646 pagina’s
...>"". aii : whose bill of fare was therefore not unlike that of Mad Tom in Shakspeare's Lear — " For rats and mice, and such small deer, Have been Tom's food for many a year." where glory calls ? Remember, we are many, and " our name is Legion ;" not the hired legion of an Evans,... | |
| Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - 1839 - 1048 pagina’s
...UUAKTERLY HEVIEW. THIS is but a sorry attack to repel. " Le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle," but " Bats and mice and such small deer Have been Tom's food...vagaries of Mr. Coleridge in aid of his own spleen. 1 do not like his work, or Mr. Coleridge either, and I console myself with a maxim of the late eccentric... | |
| East India college - 1845 - 620 pagina’s
...it will be best, To leave the Editors to write the rest. MOONSHINE. THE LITERARY TASTE OF THE AGE. But rats and mice, and such small deer, Have been Tom's food for many a year. KINO LEAK. IF a monarch of the present day were to demand from some wise philosopher, as once was done... | |
| 1855 - 1080 pagina’s
...singular, even when an adjective enters which applies to each of the things stated. As in — ** . . . rats and mice and such small deer, Have been Tom's food for seven long year" The following is an instance in which modern grammar has added the last letter, in... | |
| 1858 - 878 pagina’s
...dexterous in veiling and concealing error. Could not Mr. Kennaway take the Cardinal in hand ? — " Rats and mice, and such small deer, Have been Tom's food for many a year." Now let him strike at the King of the forest. — We desire, however, to be grateful for what we have.... | |
| Robert Gordon Latham - 1861 - 168 pagina’s
...ov-um a «v hide cut-is day di-es worm verm-is fish pisc-is * A diminutive for sler-ul-a. t As in — " Rats and mice, and such small deer, Have been Tom's food for many a year." King Lear. t The probable Latin root is saiv-; the -s being lost, and the r being t!.er of English.... | |
| Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - 1862 - 536 pagina’s
...present publication, she will not class you amongst great writers. ANSWER TO THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. THIS is but a sorry attack to repel. "Le jeu ne vaut pas...his own spleen. . I do not like his work, or Mr." Coleridge's either, and I console myself with a maxim of the late eccentric General Meadows, who being... | |
| Woolwich roy. military acad - 1864 - 588 pagina’s
...Earthlier happy is the rose distilled." (3) " And Nicanor lay dead in his harness." (4) " But mice and rats and such small deer Have been Tom's food for many a year." (5) "For 'tis the sport to have the engineer Hoist with his own petard." (6) " The fattest hog in Epicurus'... | |
| Sir William Francis Patrick Napier - 1867 - 488 pagina’s
...ANSWER TO THE QUAETEELY EEVIEW. THIS is but a sorry attack to repel. ' Le jeu ne vaut pas la chandette,' but 'rats and mice and such small deer have been Tom's...of his own spleen. I do not like his work, or Mr. Coleridge's either, and I console myself with a maxim of the late eccentric general Meadows, •who... | |
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