 | 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... | |
 | Standish O'Grady - 1886 - 358 oldal
...self-control greatly contributing to his success. Why is a pump like Yisconnt Castlereagh ? Beoauso 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... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1889 - 298 oldal
...conundrum, " Why is a pump like Lord Castlereagh?" " Because it is a slender thing of wood, That uj) and down its awkward arm doth sway, And coolly spout,...spout away In one weak, washy, everlasting flood." Occasionally one meets with a saw-like action, in which the arm seems lengthened and contracted alternately.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Sir Henry William Lucy - 1892 - 570 oldal
...discovered by Tom Moore. " Why is a pump like Lord Castlereagh ?" the poet asked, and answered — Because it is a slender thing of wood, That up and down its awkward arm doth sway ; In one weak, washy, everlasting flood It coolly spouts, and spouts, and spouts away. The pity of... | |
 | George Henry Jennings - 1892 - 744 oldal
...remembered — " Because it is a elender thing of wood, That up and down its awkward arm doth eway, And coolly spout and spout and spout away, In one weak, washy, everlasting flood." But some could see much more in Castlereagh than his opponents would Allow. Thus Lytton, in " St. Stephen's... | |
 | Henry William Lucy - 1892 - 572 oldal
...was discovered by Tom Moore. " Why is a pump like Lord Castlereagh ?" the poet asked, and answered— Because it is a slender thing of wood, That up and down its awkwurd arm doth sway ; In one weak, washy, everlasting flood It coolly spoats, and spoats, and spoats... | |
 | George Edward Cokayne - 1893 - 458 oldal
...lampooned him severely. Moore writes — " Why is a pump like Viscount Castlereagh 1 Because it is an empty thing of wood, That up and down its awkward arm doth sway, And coolly spouts, and spouts, and spouts away In one weak, washy, everlasting flood." while the savageness with... | |
 | 1898 - 688 oldal
...: — What 's my Thought like ? Quest. Why is a Pump like V— so— nt C— stl— r— gh ? Anew. Because it is a slender thing of wood, That up and...spout away, In one weak, washy, everlasting flood ! ' Poetical Works,' Shamrock ed., p. 136. The tedium of Castlereagh's speeches, however, was relieved... | |
 | William Clarke Robinson - 1900 - 220 oldal
...public pump bringing an action for battery ! So Moore says : Why is a pump like Viscount Castlereagh ? Because it is a slender thing of wood ! That up and down its awkward arm doth sway, And coldly spout, and spout, and spout away, In one weak, washy, everlasting flood ! In 18o8 he wrote some... | |
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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 I IIT. 
