Whose wit, in the combat, as gentle as bright, " Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade ; — "Whose eloquence — bright'ning whatever it tried, " Whether reason or fancy, the gay or the grave, — " Was as rapid, as deep, and as brilliant a tide,... The Fudge Family in Paris - Página 121de Thomas Moore - 1818 - 123 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| United States. Congress - 1882 - 136 páginas
...Whose fancy, as bright as the flrc-fly's light, Played round every object, and shone while it played; Whose wit, in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade. His capacity for labor was great, and it was freely exerted; for even while taking an active and important... | |
| Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - 1882 - 914 páginas
...MONTAIGNE— Essays. Bk. II. Ch. XIL When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness. r. MONTESQUIEU. II. Sc. 2. How would you be, If He, who is the top of Judgment, should But judge you as you s. MOOKE — Lines on Sheridan. Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly thing on the face... | |
| James Sheridan Knowles - 1883 - 454 páginas
...like a wizard, the world of the heart, And could call up its sunshine, or bring down ite showers I Whose humour as gay as the fire-fly's light, Play'd...play'd; Whose wit, in the combat, as gentle as bright, Never carried a heart-stain away on its blade I Whose eloquence, bright'ning whatever it tried, Whether... | |
| Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 páginas
...Anyel's Story. Who ran Through each mode of the lyre, and was master of all. On the Death of Sheridan. Whose wit, in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade. ibid. Though an angel should write, still 't is devils print. The Fudges in England. Weep on ; and,... | |
| Frank Abial Flower - 1883 - 600 páginas
...Carpenter: " Whose humor as gay as the fire-fly's light, Played round ev'ry subject, and shone as It played; Whose wit, in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade." He ever could utter, upon occasion, many beautiful and touching sentiments. They gathered as much from... | |
| Christian ethics - 1883 - 296 páginas
...remembering that a word cuts deeper than a sharper weapon, and the wound it makes is longer curing. Whose wit, in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade. It is but an unhappy wit which stirs up enemies against the owners of it. His wit invites you by his... | |
| Alabama State Bar Association - 1903 - 1078 páginas
...and his sense of duty was apparent. He was vigorous and firm, quick at repartee — yet one "Whoee wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade. " But it must not be supposed from what is written that Lomax was of a cold, self-centered disposition.... | |
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1884 - 388 páginas
..." Whose humor, as gay as the fire-fly's light, Playjd round every subject, and shone as it played; Whose wit. in the combat as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade." Even in political. debate, however sharp or acrimonious, Sheridan seems ever to have been courteous... | |
| Henry Howe - 1891 - 688 páginas
...Memorial volume published of his life and services bears this motto, which truthfully characterized him : "Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade." And his old commander, Rutherford B. Hayes, in the same memorial work, gives this testimony: "Knowing... | |
| Henry Howe - 1891 - 610 páginas
...Memorial volume published of his life and services bears this uiotto, which truthfully characterized him : "Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade." And his old commander, Rutherford B. Hayes, in the same memorial work, gives this testimony : " Knowing... | |
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