 | George Henry Jennings - 1881 - 564 oldal
...answer to the qaestion, "Why is a pump like Viscount Castlereagh ? " will be remembered— " Became it is a slender thing of wood, That up and down its...spout away, In one weak, washy, everlasting flood." Bnt some could see much more in Castlereagh than his opponents would allow. Thus Lytton, in " St. Stephen's... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1881 - 900 oldal
...places ! WHAT'S MY THOUGHT LIKE ? Quest, Why is a pump like V — sc — nt C- stl— r— gh T A nsw. Because it is a slender thing of wood, That up and down its awkward arm doth sway, And coolly spout an I spout and spout away, In one weak, waehy, everlasting uoid ! EPIGRAM. DIALOGUE BETWEEN A CATHOLIC... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1881 - 544 oldal
...Because it is a slender thing of wood, That up and down its awkward arm doth sway, And coolly epout and spout and spout away, In one weak, washy, everlasting...EPIGRAM. DIALOGUE BETWEEN A CATHOLIC DELEGATE AND HIS KYL H-GHN-68 THE DE OF 0 BL D. SAID his Highness to Ned, with that grim face of his, "Why refuse us... | |
 | Samuel Arthur Bent - 1882 - 638 oldal
...Parliament "), to the question, ' Why is a pump like Viscount Castlereagh 'I ' will be remembered : — ' Because it is a slender thing of wood, That up and...spout away, In one weak, washy, everlasting flood.' " CATHERINE II. [Empress of Russia; born at Stettin, 1729; married Peter, afterwards emperor, 1745;... | |
 | Autumn leaves - 1882 - 210 oldal
...67. ' The art that can immortalize, The art that baffles Time's tyrannic claim To quench it.' 1. ' It is a slender thing of wood That up and down its awkward arm doth sway.' 2. ' She, always beautiful, and growing Still more so every note she sings.' 3. ' And rising, and uplifting... | |
 | Charles Henry Ross - 1883 - 342 oldal
...vestry orators in general. " A stiff ungainly awkward thing of wood, Which up and down a graceless arm doth sway, And coolly spout and spout and spout away In one weak wishy-washy everlasting flood." I am in a quoting humour to-day. PAUL DE KOCK. AND so, brave old PADL,... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1883 - 648 oldal
...Moore's picture of him may be accepted as " from the life " : " Why is a pump like Viscount Castlereagh ? Because it is a slender thing of wood, That up and down the awkward arm doth sway, And coolly spout and spout and spout away, In one weak, washy, everlasting... | |
 | James Parton - 1884 - 734 oldal
...banish'd from mine WHAT'S MY THOUGHT LIKET Quest. — Why is a Pump like Viscount CASTLKREAOH f Anna. — Because it is a slender thing of wood, That up and...spout away, In one weak, washy, everlasting flood I 24* FROM TIIK PHKNCH. Of all the men one meets about, There 'a none like Jack — he 's everywhere:... | |
 | Standish O'Grady - 1886 - 364 oldal
...Castlereagh, his self-control greatly contributing to his success. Why is a pnmp like Viscount Castlereagh P Because it is a slender thing of wood That up and down its awkward arm doth sway, And coolly spouts and spouts and spouts and spouts away In one weak, washy, everlasting flood. Byron's hatred... | |
 | 1889 - 636 oldal
...Mr. Ruskin believes to be an innate and ineradicable part of our nature. The preacher must not . . . coolly spout, and spout, and spout away, In one weak, washy, everlasting flood, with pump-like movement of the arm. Nor must he be as methodical as the Court preacher of the seventeenth... | |
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Because it is a slender thing of wood, That up and down its awkward arm doth sway, And coolly spout and spout and spout away, In one weak, washy, everlasting flood ! EPIGRAM. 
