Bless us! what a word on A title-page is this! and some in file Stand spelling false, while one might walk to MileEnd Green. Why is it harder, sirs, than Gordon, Colkitto, or Macdonnel, or Galasp? Those rugged names to our like mouths grow sleek, That... Novels and tales of the author of Waverley - Page 367by sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1822Full view - About this book
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...walk, to MileEnd Green. Why is it harder, Sirs, than Gordon, Colkitto, or Macdonel, or Galasp ? Those rugged names to our like mouths grow sleek, That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp. Thy age, like ours, O soul of Sir John Cheek, Hated not learning worse than toad or asp ; When thou... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...walk to MileEnd Green. Why is it harder Sirs than Gordon, Colkitto, or Macdonnel, or Galasp ? Those rugged names to our like mouths grow sleek, That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp. Thy age, like ours, O Soul of Sir John Cheek, Hated not learning worse than toad or asp, When thou... | |
| William Hayley - 1810 - 418 pages
...walk to MileEnd Green. Why is it harder, Sirs, than Gordon Colkitto, or Macdonnel, or Galasp ? Those rugged names to our like mouths grow sleek, That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp. Thy age, like ours, O Soul of Sir John Cheek, Hated not learning worse than toad or asp, Vfl. THE SAME.... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1819 - 346 pages
...the barbarous Scottish names which the Civil War had made familiar to English ears : — why is it harder, sirs, than Gordon, Colkitto, or M'Donald,...may suppose," says Bishop Newton, "that these were persons of note among the Scotch ministers, who were for pressing and enforcing the covenant ;" whereas... | |
| Walter Scott - 1819 - 350 pages
...had made familiar to English ears :— why is It harder, sirs, than Gordbfi, Colkitto, or McDonald, or Gallasp, These rugged names to our like mouths...may suppose," says Bishop Newton, "that these were persons of note among the Scotch ministers, who were for pressing and enforcing the covenant;" whereas... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 486 pages
...Mile* " End Green. Why, is it harder, sirs, than Gordon, " Colkitto, or Macdonnel, or Gallasp? " Those rugged names to our like mouths grow sleek, " That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp. " Thy age, like ours, O soul of sir John Cheek, " Hated not learning worse than toad or asp, " When... | |
| Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1822 - 392 pages
...Milton, have been naturalized in our common discourse. Gordon, Colkitto, or Macdonnel, or Galasp ? Those rugged names to our like mouths grow sleek, That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp. The memoirs before us are the production of an active and enterprising officer, written in the 83d... | |
| 1822 - 384 pages
...Milton, have been naturalized in our common discourse. Gordon, Colkitto, or Macdonnel, or Galasp ? Those rugged names to our like mouths grow sleek, That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp. The memoirs before us are the production of an active and enterprising officer, written in the 83d... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 414 pages
...walk to MileEnd Green. Why -is it harder, Sirs, than Gordon, Colkitto, or Macdonnel, or Galasp ? Those rugged names to our like mouths grow sleek, That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp. 11 Thy age, like ours, O Soul of Sir John Cheek, Hated not learning worse than toad or asp, When thou... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 312 pages
...walk to MileEnd Green. Why is it harder, sirs, than Gordon, Colkitto, or Macdonnel, or Galasp ? Those rugged names to our like mouths grow sleek, That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp, Thy age, like OUT'S, O soul of sir John Cheek, Hated not learning worse than toad or asp, When thou... | |
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