...thoroughly unfeeling that it is commonly said he has no heart. Mr. Rogers, They say Ward has no heart, But I deny it, He has a heart, And gets his speeches by it. November 24th. Tom came in at luncheon. We talked of the great man's promises which he has been throwing...

...was himself as unsparing of others, and wrote of an acquaintance: They say that Ward's no heart, but I deny it. He has a heart and gets his speeches by it. Physical infirmities or blemishes were "fair game." A wit said to a courtier with long legs and a long...

...praises his memory at the expense of his affections.' The epigram is : Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it ; He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it. These lines, however, we think, were not written for Henry Ward. They were written by Rogers and referred...

...practise his speeches, which he gave out as unpremeditated : — " Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it: He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it." When Ward, who had been a Whig, turned Tory, and said, . " I wonder what would make me turn Whig again,"...

...Moore's poems, the poet wrote in return the following biting epigram : They say he has no heart ; but I deny it, He has a heart — and gets his speeches by it.' A man resents with more bitterness a satire upon his abilities than his practice. The hint malevolent,...

...getting his speeches by heart, like Ward, of whom Rogers wrote — "They say Ward has no heart, but I deny it; He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it. " His air and manner when he entered the house prepared for one of his magnificent orations was so...

...unless, perhaps, in the sense of Rogers's epigram on Lord Ward — Ward has no heart, they say ; but I deny it. He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it. Applegate, however, did not get his sermons by heart, though he put heart into his sermons. He preached...

...revenge in writing these few lines, which were soon widely quoted : Ward has no heart, they say ; but I deny it : He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it! Satire (Latin satira, a mixture). A production in which follies and vices are ridiculed, sometimes...

...acknowledged that he had received assistance from Richard Sharpe : " Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it : He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it." The asperity of the epigram is easily accounted for when we consider the many personalities uttered...

...Rogers's well-known epigram on Mr Ward (afterwards Lord Dudley) — " They say Ward has no heart, but I deny it; He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it — " was provoked (says Gronow) by a remark made at table by Mr Ward. On Rogers observing that his...