| 1830 - 480 pages
...soundness of his opinions could rarely be im. peached. It might sometimes have been said to him, " Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, but why did you kick us down stairs ?" He was a man of strong passions, and acute feeling, which serves, in some measure,... | |
| George Canning - 1835 - 650 pages
...certain lover had addressed his mistress: — " When late I attempted your pity to move. Oh, why were you deaf to my prayers? Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs!" Others apprehended that they would still be discontented because all offices could not... | |
| George Canning, Roger Therry - 1836 - 466 pages
...certain lover had addressed his mistress — " When late I attempted your pity to move, Oh, why were you deaf to my prayers } Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs ?" Others apprehended that they would still be discontented because all offices could not... | |
| Albany Fonblanque - 1837 - 360 pages
...a friend to the people in disguise, we should apply to him the remark of the hacknied epigram — " Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick us down stairs ?" His blows certainly have been of a violence which raise a strong presumption of their... | |
| miss Aylmer (fict. name.) - 1840 - 968 pages
...given in vain. Oh ! never canst thou cancel half her debt, Eternity forbids thee to forget. LARA. " Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs ? " IT is a mistaken notion that professors feel no pain whilst inflicting it on others.... | |
| 1841 - 888 pages
...public proßt. But the sins of the Melbourne Ministry on this head were not those of omission only. " Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs ? " 'Committees of enquiry on the operation of the corn-laws were repeatedly refused, their... | |
| 1841 - 884 pages
...public proot. But the sins of the Melbourne Ministry on this head were not those of omission only. " Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick mo down stairs ? " Committees of enquiry on the operation of the corn-laws were repeatedly refused,... | |
| Frances Milton Trollope - 1843 - 342 pages
...Barnaby, and had she known then she would very likely have parodied against herself the famous lines — Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs ? Under the influence of feelings such as these, Mrs. Beauchamp determined to make it manifest... | |
| George Canning - 1844 - 646 pages
...certain lover had addressed his mistress: — " When late I attempted your pity to move, Oh, why were you deaf to my prayers'! Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs}" Others apprehended that they would still be discontented because all offices could not... | |
| 1916 - 880 pages
...the spirit underlying the word or deed. It is a complete reversal of the old sentiment — "No doubt it was right to dissemble your love. But why did you kick me downstairs?" for to this super-sensitive sort of temperament the physical experience of being kicked downstairs... | |
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