 | Walter Bagehot - 1891
...too anxious a reality to be dwelt upon. We can bear the mere description of the "Parish Register,"— "But this poor farce has neither truth nor art, To...cumbrous scene ; Presents no objects tender or profound, But spreads its cold unmeaning gloom around ; " * but who could bear to have a long narrative of fortunes... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1891
...anxious a reality to be dwelt upon. We can bear the mere description of the Parish Register — • ' But this poor farce has neither truth nor art To please...cumbrous scene ; Presents no objects tender or profound, But spreads its cold unmeaning gloom around ; ' — but who could bear to have a long narrative of... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1891
...too anxious a reality to be dwelt upon. We can bear the mere description of the "Parish Register,"— "But this poor farce has neither truth nor art, To please the fancy or to touuh the heart : . . . Dark but not awful, dismal but yet mean, With anxious bustle moves the cumbrous... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1892
...memorial. Away with you, Dandie.' And Dandie made his reverence and departed accordingly. CHAPTER XXXVII But this poor farce has neither truth nor art To please...the heart. Dark but not awful, dismal but yet mean, AVith anxious bustle moves the cumbrous scene, Presents no objects tender or profound, But spreads... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1892
...XXXVII But this poor farce has neither truth nor art To iilea.se the fancy or to touch the heart. Dane but not awful, dismal but yet mean, With anxious bustle...cumbrous scene, Presents no objects tender or profound, But spreads its cold unmeaning gloom around. Paritk Regitter. 'YouB majesty,' said Mannering, laughing,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1898 - 484 страници
...and departed accordingly. • See Mmttrtlty o/tte BmttM Bonier, ToL IT., p. Ml (Laing). CHAPTER XXXVH But this poor farce has neither truth nor art To please...Dark but not awful, dismal but yet mean, With anxious lm-t,lr moves the cumbrous scene, Presents no objects tender or profound, But spreads its cold unmeaning... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1898
...memorial. Away with you, Dandie. " And Dandie made his reverence, and departed accordingly. CHAPTER XXXVII. But this poor farce has neither truth nor art To please...heart. Dark but not awful, dismal but yet mean, With auxious bustle moves the cumbrous scene, Presents no objects tender or profound, But spreads its cold... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1901 - 584 страници
...showers ; Unlike to that which strikes the soul with dread, When thunders roar and forky fires ore shed ; Dark but not awful, dismal but yet mean, With anxious...cumbrous scene ; Presents no objects tender or profound, But spreads its cold unmeaning gloom around. When woes are feign'd, how ill such forms appear, And... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1902
...too anxious a reality to be dwelt upon. We can bear the mere description of the Parish Register — " But this poor farce has neither truth nor art To please...cumbrous scene ; Presents no objects tender or profound, But spreads its cold unmeaning gloom around ; " — but who could bear to have a long narrative of... | |
 | Alfred Ainger - 1903 - 210 страници
...shrill shrieking woo'd his flickering mate." In the end her splendid funeral is solemnised : — " Dark but not awful, dismal but yet mean, With anxious...cumbrous scene ; Presents no objects tender or profound But spreads its cold unmeaning gloom around." And the sarcastic village-father, after hearing "some... | |
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Dark but not awful, dismal but yet mean, With anxious bustle moves the cumbrous scene; Presents no objects tender or profound... 
