 | George Canning - 1844 - 646 страници
...Colonial Legislatures act bona fide up to the spirit of, that order, with a manifest desire not merely "To keep the word of promise to the ear, And break it to the hope;" not by evasive or illusory enactments, — but with a full and fair intention to carry substantially... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1845 - 524 страници
...wishes — fearful of raising expectations, which we may be unable to gratify — desirous not " to keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope" — we have presumed to court the assistance of the friends of the drama to strengthen our infant institution.... | |
 | Valentine Mott - 1845 - 470 страници
...daily observance of those ennobling duties, which, when all worldly sources of consolation — that " keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope" — have deserted us forever, can alone extract the thorn from the couch of pain, disarm death of its... | |
 | mrs. C D Burdett - 1846 - 910 страници
...the curfew's rights than did the specious Mrs. Macauley ; but no one better knew than she did how to keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the sense. The floor of her back parlour, if not clean, was at least well sanded; an enormous turf fire... | |
 | Jonathan Blanchard, Nathan Lewis Rice - 1846 - 534 страници
...is right, why couple it with a condition which destroys its value ? Why, like Macbeth's witches ; " Keep the word of promise to the ear, " And break it to the heart : — " Why abuse men by giving them a right in theory, which you deny them in practice ? Why... | |
 | Jonathan Blanchard - 1846 - 526 страници
...is right, why couple it with a condition which destroys its value ? Why, like Macbeth's witches ; " Keep the word of promise to the ear, " And break it to the heart:—" Why abuse men by giving them a right in theory, which you deny them in practice ? Why insult... | |
 | 608 страници
...immediate effect one of these colonization railways, would, on the part of Earl Grey, be indeed to "keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope." IL— Evidence of JR Godlfy, Esq. 1. John Robert (ïodley, Esq., is the son of я landed proprietor... | |
 | Lewis Hippolytus J. Tonna - 1847 - 88 страници
...to lay their bones ' after life's fitful fever ! ' And does the Lord thus fulfil his word ? Does he Keep the word of promise to the ear, And break it to the hope. God forbid ! For were it so, where would the believer find a resting-place for his hope, his strong... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1848 - 648 страници
...is, in all I do, my first object ; and as I have told her a thousand times, no force shall be put on her inclinations." "I have no more to say, no more...Beaumont, feeling herself change countenance, made an -t tempt to blow her nose, and succeeded in hiding her face with her handkerchief. "With respect to... | |
 | John Spurgin (B.D., Vicar of Great Hockham, Thetford.) - 1848 - 744 страници
...error, at least from anything that they themselves would account an error. But surely this is to " keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope." It is not in any such sense that the pretensions I have been speaking of are usually pxit forth, and... | |
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... keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope" — we have presumed to court the assistance of the friends of the drama to strengthen our infant institution. 
