 | 1875 - 610 страници
...rottenness and the stiffness is balanced by the elasticity. There is nothing so dangerous as innovation. ... It is well : it works well : let well alone. Cupbearer,...reason why it should be three parts rotten when I die.' But Prince Seithenyn, with his catchword of Gwin o eur — •• wine for gold, a time-honoured apothegm... | |
 | 1829 - 860 страници
...should bring into jeopardy ¡—this immortal work has stood for centuries, and will stand for centuries more, if we let it alone. It is well : it works well...die.' The whole body of the high commission roared ap. probation. 'And after all,' said Seithenyn, ' the worst that could happen would be the overflow... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - 1875 - 448 страници
...should bring into jeopardy, this immortal work has stood for centuries, and will stand for centuries more, if we let it alone. It is well : it works well...reason why it should be three parts rotten when I die.' Admirable sarcasm ! The policy of masterly inaction was very disastrous, as of course it always is... | |
 | 1875 - 1012 страници
...if we let it alone. It is well ; it works well : let well alone. Cupbearer, fill. It was half-rotten when I was born ; and that is a conclusive reason why it should be three-parts rotten when I die.' " (II. 108.) In the same spirit of delicious irony is conceived the... | |
 | Sir Mungo William MacCallum - 1894 - 462 страници
...if we let it alone. It is well : it works well : let well alone. Cupbearer, fill. It was halfrotten when I was born, and that is a conclusive reason why it should be three parts rotten when I die.' " Of course the Misfortunes of Elphin is very slenderly Arthurian — one feels inclined to say that... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1896 - 800 страници
...should bring into jeopardy, this immortal work has stood for centuries, and will stand for centuries more, if we let it alone. It is well : it works well...worst that could happen would be the overflow of a spring tide, for that was the worst that happened before the embankment was thought of; and if the... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1897 - 298 страници
...against the arguments of Elphin and the blunter assertions of Teithrin at his first appearance ! ' It was half rotten when I was born, and that is a...reason why it should be three parts rotten when I die ' strikes us now (it is the fate of political reasoning) as a caricature not so much of Tory arguments... | |
 | 1910 - 414 страници
...on the evil conditions about him. Michael, and Sueteuyn with his drunken logic: "It was half-rotten when I was born, and that is a conclusive reason why it should be three-parts rotten when I die," still trumpet abroad the sins of the age, but they trumpet such opinions... | |
 | Carl Van Doren - 1911 - 334 страници
...should bring into jeopardy, this immortal work has stood for centuries, and will stand for centuries more, if we let it alone. It is well : it works well...reason why it should be three parts rotten when I die." 1 This passage might reasonably be taken for the work of a Radical with ideas on the subject of progress,... | |
 | Clive Bell - 1918 - 280 страници
...should bring into jeopardy, this immortal work has stood for centuries, and will stand for centuries more, if we let it alone. It is well : it works well...why it should be three [parts rotten when I die.' " Peacock's attitude towards women affords an example of the liberality of his views and of his isolation.... | |
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I could build any thing that would stand against them half an hour; and here this immortal old work, which God forbid the finger of modern mason should bring into jeopardy, this immortal work has stood for centuries, and will stand for centuries more... 
