| 1867 - 590 lehte
...drawings are, indeed, outrageously grotesque. We feel ourselve* in the plight of the lover of old, "Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, but — why did you kick me down-stairs?" So here — any queer contortions of the human face or form may pass muster : but —... | |
| Edward Heneage Dering - 1868 - 336 lehte
...understood what it •was that he felt, he would probably have expressed it in the words of the old play : " Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs?" Geoffrey thought of her only as the possible mother of the young lady who, without effort or intention,... | |
| Treasury - 1869 - 474 lehte
...Chorus + Cf. Shakspere, Act v. Sc. 3. 174 BICKERSTAFF— SWIFT. ISAAC BICKERSTAFF. Circa 1735 . 'OERHAPS it was right to dissemble your love, -*- But — why did you kick me down stairs ? 'Tit Well its .V» Wane. I care for nobody, no, not I, If no one cares for me.* Love in a Village.... | |
| William Carew Hazlitt - 1871 - 406 lehte
...REMONSTRANCE. "\ \ 7"HEN first I attempted your pity to move, Ah ! why were you deaf to my pray'rs ? Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs ? 544' i "'WO broom-sellers, meeting in the street, one of them asked the other how he could afford... | |
| Stephen Powers - 1871 - 378 lehte
...faithful and unforgetting Shawnees would lift up hand no more, wantonly, against a moose. ST. TAMMANY. Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But — why did you kick me down-stairs? BlCKERSTAFF. TAMMANY was a friend to the pale-face. He desired to abide with him in peace... | |
| Stephen Powers - 1871 - 364 lehte
...faithful and unforgetting Shawnees would lift up hand no more, wantonly, against a moose. ST. TAMMANY. Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But — why did you kick me down-stairs ? BlCKERSTAFF. ' I SAMMANY was a friend to the pale-face. He desired JL to abide with him... | |
| Hugh Gilzean Reid - 1871 - 352 lehte
...adventurous mission. — May he never have to say with the hapless poet — " It was all very well to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs ?" At Lochend, all was mirth and happiness. A youthful company had been spending their Christmas, and... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1873 - 484 lehte
...has certainly not tended to soothe whatever resentment might exist in America, " Perhaps it was rieht to dissemble your love. But why did you Kick me down stairs f " We have no reason to complain that England, as a necessary consequence of her clubs, has become... | |
| John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 lehte
...offering be ; My heart and lute are all the store That I can bring to thee. Lodoisha. Act iii. Sc. I. Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But — why did you kick me down stairs? Tlie Panel. l Acti.Sc.I. GEORGE BARRINGTON. 1755 • True patriots all ; for be it understood We left... | |
| National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain) - 1874 - 748 lehte
...woman with these results before her may well be excused for looking somewhat dubiously on the phrase, " Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But — why did you kick me dowu stairs?" A new formula must now be introduced into courtships as practised in the manufacturing... | |
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