| 1847 - 610 lehte
...obey. Dost sometimes counsel take, and sometimes tea." Or in the remonstrance to a lady : — " Perbaps it was right to dissemble your love, '•But why did you kick me down stairs?" But the more perfect the fusion of the two hostile ingredients, or the more impossible it is rendered... | |
| 1848 - 594 lehte
...occasional style of reciprocation, Madame du Deffand might have exclaimed, in the spirit of the song, — ' Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs ? ' And, after all, is there any description of weakness or moral cowardice more censurable, than that... | |
| Christian Friedrich Wurm - 1849 - 194 lehte
...Seitungêblatt fyat ií)m, in SSejug auf biefe S3e= l)anblung, baê SBort ber alten SSallabe geliefyen: — Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love : But why did you kick me down stairs? SBenigftenê muß man billig fein unb eingehen, eê war menfa)* lify, wenn ibm »on feinem ©tanbpunct... | |
| George Canning - 1850 - 640 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 sfairel", Others apprehended that they would still be discontented because all offices could not be... | |
| Karl Jürgens - 1850 - 1268 lehte
...Seitunasblatt (at ihm, in S3e;ug auf biefe Setjanblung, Ьав SBort ber alten Sallobc g«; liefen : Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love: But why did you kiek me down stairs? SBenigftene muf man billig fein unb eingewiesen, ев mar menfdjliif), шспп... | |
| 1852 - 1170 lehte
...love " (Vol. iv., p. 24.).— "AN EXPOSTULATION. " When late I attempted your pity to move, Why sccm'd you so deaf to my prayers? Perhaps it was right to...your love, But — Why did you kick me down stairs?" From An Asylum for Fugitive Pieces, in Prose and Verse, not in any other Collection, vol. i. p, 1 5.... | |
| Frome tracts - 1853 - 154 lehte
...bruises, looking up wistfully at the house, and saying in the words of the old song, " Perhaps you did right to dissemble your love, but why did you kick me down stairs": and Rome, a huge angry virago at the window, with clenched fist, ciying out — (her speech interlarded... | |
| William Gardiner - 1853 - 408 lehte
...When late I attempted Your passion to prove, Why were you so deaf to my prayers ? Perhaps you were right, To dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs ? CHAPTER VII. JOUHNEY TO DUFFIELD PONY GALLOWS BIKSTALL SANDS DERBY BOOTS AND SPURS ANDERSEN. 1778.... | |
| John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 lehte
...humble there '& no place like home. [From Debrett's Asylum for Fugitive Pieces, 1795.] An Expostulation. Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love But — why did you kick me down stairs ? From the Resolutions presented to the House of Representatives, December, 1799. Prepared by General... | |
| 1856 - 506 lehte
...and ornaments, which their axes and hammers have demolished, might justly cry out from the earth, " Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love ; But why did you kick us down stairs?"). " But Papists may seem somewhat to be commended too in adding the cedar and gold,... | |
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