 | Proverbial folk-lore - 1874
...making them. Really the expostulation of the poet is sometimes quite required. It might have been well to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs ? while Canning has thus forcibly deprecated the plain speaking infliction, But, of all ills, just... | |
 | 1875 - 401 lehte
...my parting smile. ANONYMOUS. AN EXPOSTULATION. TT 7I1EN late I attempted your pity to move What made you so deaf to my prayers ; Perhaps it was right to...your love, But — why did you kick me down stairs ? ANONYMOUS. ROSETTE. (Imitattd from tlit French of BfatANGER.) ~\7ES! I know you're very fair; And... | |
 | 1875
...unfortunate foreign investor might well and ruefully suggest for his prayerful consideration : — " Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But — why did you kick me down stairs? " Turning next to Minnesota, we find that State returning on August 31st, 1873, 1,900 miles of road... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 864 lehte
...means, my son, be good. The Learned Boy. Cut and come again. Tola. vii. Line 26. JP KEMBLE. 1757-1823. Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But — why did you kick me down stairs ? The Panel? Act i. St. I. 1 Sec Proverbial Expressions. 2 Altered from Bickerstaffs 'Tis Welft is... | |
 | 1877
...Son. 1-877). WE know not in what context the lines occur originally : — " You say that you wished to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs ?" A very reasonable question in sooth, which we probably quote incorrectly, and which we only quote... | |
 | Alan Benjamin Cheales - 1875 - 173 lehte
...making them. Really the expostulation of the poet is sometimes quite required. It might have been well to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs ? while Canning has thus forcibly deprecated the plain speaking infliction, But, of all ills, just... | |
 | Charles Henry Jones - 1876 - 400 lehte
...parting smile. ANONYMOUS. AN EXPOSTULATlON. "\\ T HEN late I attempted you: pity to move, What made you so deaf to my prayers; Perhaps it was right to...your love, But — why did you kick me down stairs ? ANONYMOUS. ROSETTE. (Imitated /ram the French oj RftR "\/"ES! I know you're very fair; And the rose-bloom... | |
 | Alan Benjamin Cheales - 1877
...the watch. MODERATION. When late I attempted your pity to move, Why seemed yon BO deaf to my prayer ? Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love But why did you kick me down stairs ? BEAB AND FORBEAR. ' Bear and forbear,' thus preach the ancient sages, And in two words include the... | |
 | G.W. Carleton & Co - 1877 - 340 lehte
...know their love. '/ SHAKESPERE, Two Gentlemen. — Passing the LOVE of women. — 2 Samuel i. 26. — Perhaps it was right to dissemble your LOVE ; But — why did you kick me down stairs ? JP KEJÍRLE, The Panel. — She never told her LOVE ; But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud,... | |
 | 1877
...Son. 1877). WE know not in what context the lines occur originally : — " You say that you wished to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs t" A very reasonable question in sooth, which we probably quote incorrectly, and which we only quote... | |
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