| George Eliot - 1885 - 328 страници
...sentence is too strong ; Because she's right, she's ever in the wrong." Of the diplomatic Julia : — " For her own breakfast she'll project a scheme, Nor take her tea without a stratagem." Of Lyce, the old painted coquette : — " Iu vain the cock has summoned sprites away ; She walks at... | |
| Ada L. Halstead, Laura Eugenia Newhall - 1892 - 366 страници
...papers, and they described your toilet. You must have looked beautiful 1" CHAPTER XXIV HER STRATAGEM For her own breakfast she'll project a scheme, Nor take her tea without a stratagem. — Young. Y/TEANWHILE Sir Philip Camden had heen 1V1 basking in the light of Dorian Rossmore's eyes,... | |
| 1896 - 1224 страници
...errors seem, Nor is it Homer nods, but we that dream. «. POPE — Essay on Criticism. Pt. I. L. 177. + /. YOUNG — Lave of Fame. Satire VI. L. 187. STRENGTH. Like strength is felt from hope, and from despair.... | |
| Cecil Headlam - 1897 - 348 страници
...love. She grants, indeed, a lady may decline (All ladies but herself) at ninety-nine. From Satire VI. JULIA'S a manager; she's born for rule ; And knows her wiser husband is a fool ; Assemblies holds, and spins the subtle thread That guides the lover to his fair one's bed : For difficult... | |
| Cecil Headlam - 1897 - 346 страници
...herself) at ninety-nine. *-'*" "*-~ -^-1- — 268 SELECTIONS FROM BRITISH SATIRISTS From Satire VI. JULIA'S a manager ; she's born for rule ; And knows her wiser husband is a fool ; Assemblies holds, and spins the subtle thread That guides the lover to his fair one's bed : For difficult... | |
| George Eliot - 1901 - 486 страници
...sentence is too strong ; Because she's right, she's ever in the wrong." Of the diplomatic Julia : — " For her own breakfast she'll project a scheme, Nor take her tea without a stratagem." Of Lyce, the old painted coquette : — "In vain the cock has summoned sprites away; She walks at noon... | |
| George Eliot - 1904 - 588 страници
...sentence is too strong; Because she's right, she's ever in the wrong." Of the diplomatic Julia : — " For her own breakfast she'll project a scheme, Nor take her tea without a stratagem." Of Lyce, the old painted coquette : — " In vain the cock has summoned sprites away; She walks at... | |
| William John Courthope - 1905 - 528 страници
...pictures of Lavinia in church ; of the super-delicate Aspasia ; of Julia, of whom we are told that For her own breakfast she'll project a scheme, Nor take her tea without a stratagem ; 1 best of all, perhaps, of Clio, mistress of the art of " damning with faint praise " ; are masterpieces... | |
| Sir William Robertson Nicoll, Thomas Seccombe - 1907 - 512 страници
...for his epigrams: " Procrastination is the thief of time," " A fool at forty is a fool indeed," and For her own breakfast she'll project a scheme, Nor take her tea without a stratagem. Less familiar is the charming elegiac use he makes of reverberating his epithets: Sweet harmonist!... | |
| George Eliot - 1908 - 336 страници
...sentence is too strong; Because she's right, she's ever in the wrong." Of the diplomatic Julia : — "For her own breakfast she'll project a scheme, Nor take her tea without a stratagem." Of Lyce, the old painted coquette : — "In vain the cock has summoned sprites away; She walks at noon... | |
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