| Frances Milton Trollope - 1843 - 342 lehte
...Barnaby, and had she known then 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 ? Under the influence of feelings such as these, Mrs. Beauchamp determined to make it manifest to the... | |
| George Canning - 1844 - 646 lehte
...certain lover had addressed his mistress: — " When late I attempted your pity to move, Oh, why were you deaf to my prayers'! Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs}" Others apprehended that they would still be discontented because all offices could not be opened to... | |
| 1847 - 640 lehte
...realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take, and sometimes lee." 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 hottile ingredients, or the more impossible it is rendered... | |
| Camilla Jenkin - 1844 - 332 lehte
...given in vain. Oh ! never canst thou cancel half her deht, Eternity forbids thee to forget. LARA. " Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs ? " IT is a mistaken notion that professors feel no pain whilst inflicting it on others. The surgeon's... | |
| 1916 - 880 lehte
...the spirit underlying the word or deed. It is a complete reversal of the old sentiment — "No doubt it was right to dissemble your love. But why did you kick me downstairs?" for to this super-sensitive sort of temperament the physical experience of being kicked... | |
| 1845 - 384 lehte
...Sir RP — I fear you are sometimes a little too apparently hostile in your letters and harangues. Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, but why did you kick me down stairs ? Dr. M'H. — Now, is not this a little unreasonable? What would you have us do? Our position —... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 290 lehte
...It is a remonstrance addressed to a lady : — When late I attempted your passion to prove, Why were you so deaf to my prayers ? Perhaps it was right to...dissemble your love ; But why did you kick me down stairs ? This kind of surprise, in its preceding form, is connected with another species of irony, the Mock-heroic... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 386 lehte
...It is a remonstrance addressed to a lady : — When late I attempted your passion to prove, Why were you so deaf to my prayers ? Perhaps it was right to...dissemble your love ; But why did you kick me down stairs ? This kind of surprise, in its preceding form, is connected with another species of irony, the Mockheroic... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 282 lehte
...It is a remonstrance addressed to a lady : — When late I attempted your passion to prove, Why were you so deaf to my prayers ? Perhaps it was right to...dissemble your love ; But why did you kick me down stairs 1 ~ This kind of surprise, 'in its preceding form, is connected with ( another species of irony, the... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 416 lehte
...It is a remonstrance addressed to a lady : — When late I attempted your passion to prove, Why were you so deaf to my prayers ? Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love ; This kind of surprise, in its preceding form, is connected with another species of irony, the Mockheroic... | |
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