 | William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson - 1908 - 328 páginas
...best. No one ever stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen halfsentences as he does. His jests scald like tears : and he probes...question with a play upon words. What a keen, laughing, hare-brained vein of home-felt truth ! What choice venom ! ' ESSAYS (especially the curious case of... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 850 páginas
...best. No one ever stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen halfsentences as he does. His jests scald like tears: and he probes a question with a play upon words. . . . There was no fuss of cant about him: nor were his sweets or his sours ever diluted with one particle... | |
 | Caleb Thomas Winchester - 1910 - 270 páginas
...hour might put on. " His serious conversation, like his serious writing," says Hazlitt, " is his best. His jests scald like tears, and he probes a question with a play upon words." The heroism of such a life, I should say, is of a higher and harder sort than Mr. Carlyle's loud heroism... | |
 | Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - 1911 - 488 páginas
...best. No one ever stammered out such fine, piquant, deep eloquent things in half a dozen half-sentences as he does. His jests scald like tears, and he probes...question with a play upon words. What a keen, laughing, hare-brained vein of home-felt truth! What choice venom! How often did we cut into the haunch of letters... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1913 - 552 páginas
...writing, is his best. No one ever stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen half sentences as he does. His jests scald like tears:...play upon words. What a keen, laughing, hair-brained vein of home-felt truth ! What choice venom ! How often did we cut into the haunch of letters, while... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1920 - 492 páginas
...writing, is his best. No one ever stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen sentences as he does. His jests scald like tears ;...question with a play upon words. What a keen, laughing, 11. illuminatl. Persons initiated into special knowledge. 12. It 'i. Lamb's. 13. Small-coal man'i.... | |
 | William Ernest Henley - 1921 - 454 páginas
...best. No one ever stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen halfsentences as he does. His jests scald like tears : and he probes...question with a play upon words. What a keen, laughing, hare-brained vein of home-felt truth ! What choice venom 1 ' letters late in life, and, having the... | |
 | Percival Presland Howe - 1922 - 510 páginas
...writing, is his best. No one ever stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen half sentences as he does. His jests scald like tears...play upon words. What a keen, laughing, hair-brained vein of home-felt truth ! What choice venom ! How often did we cut into the haunch of letters, while... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - 1922 - 270 páginas
...No one ever stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen half-sentences as he does. His jests scald like tears: and he probes...question with a play upon words. What a keen, laughing, hare-brained vein of home-felt truth! What choice venom! " it is merely critical, is nowadays of small... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - 252 páginas
...No one ever stammeredout such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in a half a dozen halfsentences as he does **. His jests scald like tears; and he...question with a play upon words. What a keen, laughing, harebrained vein of home-felt truth! What choice ven// the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain... | |
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He always made the best pun, and the best remark in the course of the evening. His serious conversation, like his serious writing, is his best. No one ever stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen half-sentences as he does.... 
