 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...  Waverley novels. Parker's ed., revised - Pagina 212di sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1845Visualizzazione 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
...War had made familiar to English ears:— why it is harder, sirs, than Gordon, Colkitto, or M'Donald, or Gallasp, These rugged names to our like mouths...may suppose," says Bishop Newton, " that these were' persona of note among the Scotch ministers, who were for pressing and enforcing the covenant;" whereas... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1823 - 402 pagine
...Highlanders, than the military skill and chivalrous spirit of * Milton's book, entitled Tetrachordon, had been ridiculed, it would seem, by the divines...Bishop Newton, " that these were persons of note among the Scotch ministers, who were for pressing and enforcing the covenant ;" whereas Milton only intends... | |
 | 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... | |
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