| George Fort GIBBS - 1911 - Страниц: 384
...delighted her. It was the one thing Brooke Garriott had proscribed." CHAPTER III THE LADY IN THE LIMOUSINE "Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, but — why did you kick me downstairs?" He had read the foolish lines somewhere, and they rang in Garriott's mind all the way... | |
| George Gibbs - 1911 - Страниц: 380
...obliged for your kindness. Afraid I can't «ron<\ Qood afternoon." CHAPTER III THE LADY IN THE LIMOUSINE "Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, but — why did you kick me downstairs?" He had read the foolish lines somewhere, and they rang in Garriott's mind all the way... | |
| 1912 - Страниц: 262
...journals and public men, has certainly not tended to soothe whatever resentment might exist in America. "Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me downstairs?" We have no reason to complain that England, as a necessary consequence of her clubs, has... | |
| Francis Barton Gummere - 1913 - Страниц: 280
...purposes of mere wit : — " When late I attempted your pity to move, What made you so deaf to my prayers? Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But, — why did you kick me down stairs ? " These examples of intentional anticlimax are, of course, to be held apart from the rhetorical fault... | |
| 1914 - Страниц: 780
...being kicked by the other. But Stamper seems to have inherited some of the spirit. "Perhaps you are right to dissemble your love, but why did you kick me down the stairs?" is the nature of his tune. Of Edward VII he says that he came to know him and his ways,... | |
| Canada. Parliament. Senate - 1914 - Страниц: 958
...Hon. Mr. POWER— Well, that is his object. One is reminded of the old saying: ' It is all very well to dissemble your love, but why did you kick me down stairs.' They all symathize with the object of the mover of the Bill, but declare that his measure should be... | |
| 1915 - Страниц: 986
...The intention of the reflective accuser may be excellent, but one instinctively thinks of the lines : Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But — why did you kick me downstairs ? Nothing is more dangerous to truth than the endeavour to prove a case, and few social... | |
| Lynn Doyle - 1916 - Страниц: 336
...kissing her in the dark, but if she'd had any fancy for me she wouldn't have near blackened my eye." " ' Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me downstairs? ' " quoted the manager. " Is that it, eh ? — All the same I fancy that in the matter... | |
| 1917 - Страниц: 676
...London. THE KAISER (to the republics who have revolted against U-boat savagery) : " It's all very well to dissemble your love, but why did you kick me down stairs? " [Dutch Cartoon] Times Change —From De Nieuwe Amsterdam mer, Amsterdam. THE GERMAN PEASANT: " I... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1917 - Страниц: 662
...journals and publick men has certainly not tended to soothe whatever resentment might exist in America. ' Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me dowti stairs ? ' We have no reason to complain that England, as a necessary consequence of her clubs,... | |
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