 | George Thaddeus Wright - 2001 - 327 páginas
...quality than the stage directions of a play, which usually take the same verb form. When Cowper writes, I twirl my thumbs, fall back into my chair, Fix on...I hope his blunders are all out, Reply discreetly ("Conversation," 11. 115-18) we feel that he is simply marking off successive segments of a whole action.... | |
 | 1863
...you agree with him, he will shift his ground to evade your concurrence, and disagree with himself ! " Vociferated logic kills me quite ; A noisy man is...out, Reply discreetly — ' To be sure : no doubt !' " Then comes the ever-scrupulous, self-doubting man : — " With hesitation admirably slow, He humbly... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1880 - 1065 páginas
...snapped again. The wrangler, rather than accord with you, Will judge himself deceived, and prove it too. creation smiles, At once the head, the heart, and...of all, Crown the great hymn ! in swarming cities ! " WILLIAM COWPER. DUELLING. FROM "CONVERSATION." THE point of honor has been deemed of use, To teach... | |
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Vociferated logic kills me quite, A noisy man is always in the right : I twirl my thumbs, fall back into my chair, Fix on the wainscot a distressful stare, And when I hope his blunders are all out, Reply discreetly — To be sure — no doubt... 
