| 1875 - 610 páginas
...rottenness and the stiffness is balanced by the elasticity. There is nothing so dangerous as innovation. ... It is well : it works well : let well alone. Cupbearer,...reason why it should be three parts rotten when I die.' But Prince Seithenyn, with his catchword of Gwin o eur — •• wine for gold, a time-honoured apothegm... | |
| 1829 - 860 páginas
...should bring into jeopardy ¡—this immortal work has stood for centuries, and will stand for centuries more, if we let it alone. It is well : it works well...die.' The whole body of the high commission roared ap. probation. 'And after all,' said Seithenyn, ' the worst that could happen would be the overflow... | |
| George Barnett Smith - 1875 - 448 páginas
...should bring into jeopardy, this immortal work has stood for centuries, and will stand for centuries more, if we let it alone. It is well : it works well...reason why it should be three parts rotten when I die.' Admirable sarcasm ! The policy of masterly inaction was very disastrous, as of course it always is... | |
| 1875 - 1012 páginas
...if we let it alone. It is well ; it works well : let well alone. Cupbearer, fill. It was half-rotten when I was born ; and that is a conclusive reason why it should be three-parts rotten when I die.' " (II. 108.) In the same spirit of delicious irony is conceived the... | |
| Sir Mungo William MacCallum - 1894 - 462 páginas
...if we let it alone. It is well : it works well : let well alone. Cupbearer, fill. It was halfrotten when I was born, and that is a conclusive reason why it should be three parts rotten when I die.' " Of course the Misfortunes of Elphin is very slenderly Arthurian — one feels inclined to say that... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - 1896 - 800 páginas
...should bring into jeopardy, this immortal work has stood for centuries, and will stand for centuries more, if we let it alone. It is well : it works well...worst that could happen would be the overflow of a spring tide, for that was the worst that happened before the embankment was thought of; and if the... | |
| Thomas Love Peacock - 1897 - 298 páginas
...against the arguments of Elphin and the blunter assertions of Teithrin at his first appearance ! ' It was half rotten when I was born, and that is a...reason why it should be three parts rotten when I die ' strikes us now (it is the fate of political reasoning) as a caricature not so much of Tory arguments... | |
| 1910 - 414 páginas
...on the evil conditions about him. Michael, and Sueteuyn with his drunken logic: "It was half-rotten when I was born, and that is a conclusive reason why it should be three-parts rotten when I die," still trumpet abroad the sins of the age, but they trumpet such opinions... | |
| Carl Van Doren - 1911 - 334 páginas
...should bring into jeopardy, this immortal work has stood for centuries, and will stand for centuries more, if we let it alone. It is well : it works well...reason why it should be three parts rotten when I die." 1 This passage might reasonably be taken for the work of a Radical with ideas on the subject of progress,... | |
| Clive Bell - 1918 - 280 páginas
...should bring into jeopardy, this immortal work has stood for centuries, and will stand for centuries more, if we let it alone. It is well : it works well...why it should be three [parts rotten when I die.' " Peacock's attitude towards women affords an example of the liberality of his views and of his isolation.... | |
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