 | George Stuart Gordon - 1912 - 260 lehte
...though he makes the most of his natural stock and hugs close his scorn of mankind. When he says, ' Sir, though — I thank God for it — I do hate perfectly all this town,' he tells the mere truth, and in him alone of his times does the hatred of a bore, a lawyer, and a fool... | |
 | Reginald John Elliott Tiddy - 1923 - 278 lehte
...though he makes the most of his natural stock and hugs close his scorn of mankind. When he says, " Sir, though — I thank God for it — I do hate perfectly all this town," he tells the mere truth, and in him alone of his 1 Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1912. times does the hatred... | |
 | A. G. Barnes - 1926 - 208 lehte
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 | William Henry Irving - 1928 - 508 lehte
...neither have we Donne's aloofness, as expressed so admirably in the first lines of his Satire II: Sir, though (I thank God for it) I do hate Perfectly all this town. Marvell's lines will set the tone which is most likely to help us: • John Milton, Works (ed. Mitford,... | |
 | John Donne - 1946 - 460 lehte
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 | John Donne - 1953 - 516 lehte
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Sir, though (I thank God for it) I do hate Perfectly all this town, yet there's one state In all ill things so excellently best, That hate towards them breeds pity towards the rest. 
