 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1824
...COWPER. INCOMPREHENSIBLE LOVE. O SAY, when I tried your affection to move, Why deaf to my sighs and my prayers? Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love — But why did you kick me down stairs? THE LOVE OF THE WORLD REPROVED : * OR, HYPOCRISY DETECTED. THUS says the prophet of the Turk, ' Good... | |
 | George Canning - 1828
...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... | |
 | 1830
...soundness of his opinions could rarely be im. peached. It might sometimes have been said to him, " Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, but why did you kick us down stairs ?" He was a man of strong passions, and acute feeling, which serves, in some measure,... | |
 | George Canning - 1835 - 583 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... | |
 | 1835
...it seems of that kind complained of by the illused love in the old ballad : " Perhaps it was as well to dissemble your love ; But why did you kick me down stairs ?" The fact is, that it was in the very nature of a Reform Bill, (whatever good it might produce, or... | |
 | George Canning - 1836
...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... | |
 | Albany Fonblanque - 1837
...a friend to the people in disguise, we should apply to him the remark of the hacknied epigram — " Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick us down stairs ?" His blows certainly have been of a violence which raise a strong presumption of their... | |
 | miss Aylmer (fict. name.) - 1840
...given in vain. Oh ! never canst thou cancel half her debt, 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... | |
 | 1841
...public proßt. But the sins of the Melbourne Ministry on this head were not those of omission only. " Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs ? " 'Committees of enquiry on the operation of the corn-laws were repeatedly refused, their supporters... | |
 | 1841
...public proot. But the sins of the Melbourne Ministry on this head were not those of omission only. " Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick mo down stairs ? " Committees of enquiry on the operation of the corn-laws were repeatedly refused,... | |
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