 | Walter Savage Landor - 1846 - 618 pages
...derived from her native place and partly from her recent misfortune, of La, Nereide Frustata, the whipped Nereid. Nicknames and whippings, when they are once...beyond my prerogative to grant them the precedency. Oura are accused of levity at church : they go thither, it is objected, to make love. Be it so. I never... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1853 - 618 pages
...derived from her native place and partly from her recent misfortune, of La Nereide Frustata, the whipped Nereid. Nicknames and whippings, when they are once...discovered how to take off. Leopold. What the English ladiea may be in their interior I do not pretend to know : but when I compare their manners and address... | |
 | Philip Hugh Dalbiac - Quotations, English - 1897 - 526 pages
...169. " Nice customs court'sy to great kings." SHAKESPEARE. Henry V. (King Henry), Act V., Sc. II. " Nicknames and whippings, when they are once laid on, no one has discovered how to take oft." LANDOR. Imaginary Conversations, Peter Leopold and President Du Paty (Du Paty). " Night is Love's... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1903 - 888 pages
...the elder sister of philosophy;' ' It is a kindness to lead the sober, a duty to lead the drunk ;' hich is slow to languish is too easily turned aside and abused. But — with the remembrance 'Study is the bane of boyhood, the aliment of youth, the indulgence of manhood, and the restorative... | |
 | Maxims - 1905 - 330 pages
...acquisition is that of good books. — COLTON. Next to excellence is the appreciation of it. — THACKERAY. Nicknames and whippings, when they are once laid on, no one has discovered how to take off. — LANDOR. "Nihil sine labore." No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important... | |
 | Edwin Lillie Miller - Authors, English - 1917 - 690 pages
...quarrelled with everybody except Southey. He was, however, a good friend to boys. In their behalf he said: " Nicknames and whippings, when they are once laid on, no one has discovered how to take off." " Study is the bane of boyhood, the ailment of youth, the indulgence of manhood, and the restorative... | |
 | William James Clarke - 1922 - 204 pages
...use of the diminutive " Rudy." Elsewhere " Nickson " is to be found as a nickname for Mr. Kipling. " Nicknames and whippings when they are once laid on, no one has discovered how to take off," said Landor in his "Imaginary Conversations." The foregoing were referred to in a 62 recent Literary... | |
 | John Ryce - Inheritance and succession - 1923 - 320 pages
...heavy toll for this morning's unwonted exercise of its partner, the indwelling spirit. CHAPTER XXIH Nicknames and whippings when they are once laid on no one has discovered how to take off. Landor. Ai'TER all, the Monthurst party did not leave Achill until the llth of October, and the long... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1927 - 346 pages
...derived from her native place, and partly from her recent misfortune, of La Nereide Fruatrata . . . the whipt Nereid. Nicknames and whippings, when they...once laid on, no one has discovered how to take off." who did not come out in better humour than she entered, nor an English who did not come out in worse.... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1927 - 340 pages
...place, and partly from her recent misfortune, of La Nereide Fmstrata . . . the whipt Nereid. Nickname!) and whippings, when they are once laid on, no one has discovered how to take off." who did not come out in better humour than she entered, nor an English who did not come out in worse.... | |
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... is hoped she will have interest enough to stop enquiry, and will have received no other harm than a few such circuitous lines as designate the latitudes on a globe, and the name, partly derived from her native place, and partly from her recent misfortune,... 
