 | 1827 - 632 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Sir Hall Caine - 1883 - 302 pagina’s
...that he might have sung some contemporary euphemism to the familiar lines : ' It was all very well to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me downstairs ?' The review continues : ' His taste in description is as remarkably childish as his powers of execution... | |
 | 1884 - 540 pagina’s
...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 y bachgen,... | |
 | Charlotte M. Yonge - 1884 - 616 pagina’s
...[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... | |
 | 1884 - 614 pagina’s
...Rnbra — Red valerian. — [En.] Princilla. — ' When late I attempted your pity to move. Why seem'd you so deaf to my prayers '{ Perhaps it was right to dissemble your lovo. But why did you kick me down stairs V will be found in an old comedy in three acts, called '... | |
 | Sydney Yorke - 1885 - 326 pagina’s
...blandishment would have brought him to her feet. Her manner of wooing, in short, reminds us of the verse — " When late I attempted your pity to move, Why seemed...to dissemble your love, But — why did you kick me down stairs ? " It also sometimes defeats its object by the exactly opposite defect of being too transparent.... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1885 - 40 pagina’s
...feelings towards you on this subject would be best expressed in the words of that familiar couplet, — " Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But — why did you kick me downstairs ? " It may occur to somebody that I am, perhaps, a little sensitive. There are, I dare say, persons... | |
 | Francis Barton Gummere - 1885 - 264 pagina’s
...and be a fool." For 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, Hut, — why did you kick me down stairs? " These examples of intentional anticlimax are, of course,... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1885 - 338 pagina’s
...journals and public men has certainly not tended to soothe whatever resentment might exist in America. " Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs ? " We have no reason to complain that England, as a necessary consequence of her clubs,... | |
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