Bless us! what a word on A title-page is this! and some in file Stand spelling false, while one might walk to MileEnd Green. Why is it harder, sirs, than Gordon, Colkitto, or Macdonnel, or Galasp? Those rugged names to our like mouths grow sleek, That... Waverly Novels - Pagina 219di Walter Scott - 1855Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pagine
...walk, to MileEnd Green. Why is it harder, Sirs, than Gordon, Colkitto, or Macdonel, or Galasp ? Those rugged names to our like mouths grow sleek, That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp. Thy age, like ours, O soul of Sir John Cheek, Hated not learning worse than toad or asp ; When thou... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 434 pagine
...walk to MileEnd Green. Why is it harder Sirs than Gordon, Colkitto, or Macdonnel, or Galasp ? Those rugged names to our like mouths grow sleek, That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp. Thy age, like ours, O Soul of Sir John Cheek, Hated not learning worse than toad or asp, When thou... | |
| William Hayley - 1810 - 418 pagine
...walk to MileEnd Green. Why is it harder, Sirs, than Gordon Colkitto, or Macdonnel, or Galasp ? Those rugged names to our like mouths grow sleek, That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp. Thy age, like ours, O Soul of Sir John Cheek, Hated not learning worse than toad or asp, Vfl. THE SAME.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 486 pagine
...Mile* " End Green. Why, is it harder, sirs, than Gordon, " Colkitto, or Macdonnel, or Gallasp? " Those rugged names to our like mouths grow sleek, " That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp. " Thy age, like ours, O soul of sir John Cheek, " Hated not learning worse than toad or asp, " When... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1822 - 546 pagine
...upon the barbarous Scottish names which the Civil War had made familiar to English ears:— why it is harder, sirs, than Gordon, Colkitto, or M'Donald,...may suppose," says Bishop Newton, " that these were' persona of note among the Scotch ministers, who were for pressing and enforcing the covenant;" whereas... | |
| 1822 - 384 pagine
...Milton, have been naturalized in our common discourse. Gordon, Colkitto, or Macdonnel, or Galasp ? Those rugged names to our like mouths grow sleek, That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp. The memoirs before us are the production of an active and enterprising officer, written in the 83d... | |
| Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1822 - 392 pagine
...Milton, have been naturalized in our common discourse. Gordon, Colkitto, or Macdonnel, or Galasp ? Those rugged names to our like mouths grow sleek, That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp. The memoirs before us are the production of an active and enterprising officer, written in the 83d... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 414 pagine
...walk to MileEnd Green. Why -is it harder, Sirs, than Gordon, Colkitto, or Macdonnel, or Galasp ? Those rugged names to our like mouths grow sleek, That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp. 11 Thy age, like ours, O Soul of Sir John Cheek, Hated not learning worse than toad or asp, When thou... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 312 pagine
...walk to MileEnd Green. Why is it harder, sirs, than Gordon, Colkitto, or Macdonnel, or Galasp ? Those rugged names to our like mouths grow sleek, That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp, Thy age, like OUT'S, O soul of sir John Cheek, Hated not learning worse than toad or asp, When thou... | |
| 1828 - 918 pagine
...and gynias ? As Milton said of the hard Scotch family titles, Gordon, Colkitto, and Galespie — " These rugged names to our like mouths grow sleek, That would have made Quintilian store and gasp.'* It has been well observed, and must, even by the botanists themselves, be admitted... | |
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