 | Philip Dormer Stanhope - 1810 - 468 pagine
...melancholy, nor a Cynical disposition ; and am as willing, and as apt to he pleased as any hody; hnt I am sure that, since I have had the full use- of my reason, nohody has ever heard me langh. Many people, at first from awkwardness and manvaise honte, have got... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.) - 1813 - 430 pagine
...people, at firSt from awkwardness and mauvaise honle, have got a vory disagreeable and silly triek of laughing, whenever they speak: and I know a man of very good pans. Mr. Waller, who eannot s:iy the eommonest thing without laughing; whieh makes those, who do not... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1831 - 290 pagine
...and the shocking distortion of the face that it occasions. Many people, at first, from awkwardness, have got a very disagreeable and silly trick of laughing whenever they speak : and I know men of very good parts, who cannot say the commonest thing without laughing; which makes those who... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.) - 1836 - 96 pagine
...and the shocking distortion of the face that it occasions. Many people, at first from awkwardness, have got a very disagreeable and silly trick of laughing whenever they speak ; and I know men of very good parts who cannot say the commonest thing without laughing, which makes those who do... | |
 | 1845 - 718 pagine
...do not attend to its absurdity. I am neither of a melancholy ' nor a cynical disposition ; and am as willing, and as apt to be ' pleased as any body ;...use of my reason, nobody has ever heard me laugh.' We suspect that his lordship himself would have done better if he had been heard to laugh ; — if... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1847 - 492 pagine
...a melancholy, nor a Cynical disposition ; and am as willing, and as apt, to be pleased as anybody ; but I am sure that, since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has ever heard me laugh. Many peoplf, at first from awkwardness and mauvaise horde, have got a very disagreeable and silly trick... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1853 - 764 pagine
...not enough attend to its absurdity. I am neither of a melancholy nor a cynical disposition; and am as willing and as apt to be pleased as any body ; but...reason, nobody has ever heard me laugh. Many people, at fir>t. from awkwardness and ntaitvaise fionte, have got a very disagreeable HIM! silly trick of laughing... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1856 - 520 pagine
...of a melancholy nor a cynical disposition ; and am as willing, and as apt to be pleased as anybody; but I am sure, that, since I have had the full use of my reason,| nobody has ever heard me laugh." His lordship's Edinburgh Reviewer suspects, with a sage as well as shrewd suspicion, that his lordship... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1859 - 476 pagine
...do not attend to its absurdity. I am neither of a melancholy nor a cynical disposition ; and am as willing and as apt to be pleased as any body ; but...use of my reason, nobody has ever heard me laugh." We suspect that his lordship himself would have done better if he had been heard to laugh ; — if... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1858 - 470 pagine
...do not attend to its absurdity. I am neither of a melancholy nor a cynical disposition ; and am as willing and as apt to be pleased as any body ; but...use of my reason, nobody has ever heard me laugh." We suspect that his lordship himself would have done better if he had been heard to laugh ; — if... | |
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I am neither of a melancholy nor a cynical disposition, and am as willing and as apt to be pleased as anybody ; but I am sure that, since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has ever heard me laugh. 
