In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies. His wit all see-saw, between that and this, Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis. Lady Suffolk and Her Circle - Página 63por Lewis Saul Benjamin - 1924 - 292 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1878 - 592 páginas
...civilly delight In mumbling of the game they dare not bite. Eternal smiles, his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether...Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies, His \\it all seesaw between that and this,' Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself,... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 872 páginas
...squeaks ; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut,...blasphemies ; His wit all see-saw between that and this, Xow high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis. Amphibious thing ;... | |
| Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - 1860 - 540 páginas
...of the lovely Mary Lepell's choice ? Nay more, could she attach herself so entirely to a man " Whose wit all see-saw between that and this ; Now high,...master up, now miss; And he himself one vile antithesis ?" The only trait, according to the late John Wilson Croker, in the celebrated libel from which those... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1860 - 542 páginas
...squeaks, Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, half venom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut,...rhymes, or blasphemies, His wit all see-saw, between t/utt and this. Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis. Amphibious... | |
| Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - 1860 - 532 páginas
...Mary Lepell's choice ? Nay more, could she attach herself so entirely to a man " Whose Wit all sec-saw between that and this } Now high, now low ; now master...up, now miss ; And he himself one vile antithesis ?" , The only trait, according to the late John Wilson Croker, in the celebrated libel from which those... | |
| Katherine Thomson - 1860 - 376 páginas
...he thus writes of Lord Hervey's conversation : — 1 His wit all see-saw between this and ihal — Now high, now low — now master up, now miss — And he himself one vile antithesis. * * * » Fop at the toilet, flatterer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's... | |
| Charles Knight - 1860 - 524 páginas
...fqueaks ; Or, at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth, halfveuom, spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies." * A pleasant world to live in, for statesmen and authors ! The parliamentary history of 1732, imperfectly... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 páginas
...polities, or tales, or lies. Or spite, 01 jiimH or rhymes, or blasphcmici : Ills wit all fceo-snw, between that and this. Now high, now low, now master up, now miu, Anil he himself one vde antithesis. Aiii|-lnhioii» thing! ilrai, .11:1111" either part, 1'lic... | |
| Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - 1861 - 504 páginas
...invective, he thus writes of Lord Hervey's conversation : "His wit all see-saw between this and that— Now high, now low — now master up, now miss- — And he himself one vile antithesis. * * * * Fop at the toilet, flatterer at the board. Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's tempter,... | |
| Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton - 1861 - 533 páginas
...the lovely Mary Lepell's ghoice ? Nay more, could she attach herself so entirely to a man "Whose wifc all see-saw between that and this ; Now high, now low ; now master up, now miss j And he himself one vile antithesis ?" The only trait, according to the late John Wilson Croker, in... | |
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