 | Literature - 1903 - 852 pages
...Just before he died his son was killed in a duel— he, at seventy-two, desired evidently to kill his adversary. "Gambling," he said, "my pence of life...heard his nurse say something to herself which sounded uugrammatical and, turning round from the priest, he put her right in a manner most violent and sudden.... | |
 | Hilaire Belloc - English poetry - 1923 - 184 pages
...Epitaph on the Politician HimseV Here richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician's corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and...slanged I wept : for I had longed to see him hanged. xrv Another on the Same This, the last ornament among the peers, Bribed, bullied, swindled and blackmailed... | |
 | BenjÄ mîn NetanyÄ hû - History - 1981 - 402 pages
...sitting but frequently popular targets. As our poet Hilaire Belloc wrote in his Epitaph on a Politician: "While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged". It behooves each of us of course at this prestigious Conference to contribute something as to what... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...Phantom-Wooer HILAIRE BELLOC (1870-1953) Epitaph on the Politician Himself 1 The Politician's corpse was . (1. 2—4) FaBoEE; MoBrPo; NBLV; OBSV; TW The False Heart 2 "How goes it?" Heart replied, "Right as... | |
 | Arthur Asa Berger - Literary Criticism - 2011 - 224 pages
...following poem: ON A POLITICIAN Here, richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician 's corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and...slanged, I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged. — Hilaire Belloc The last line, here, about the man weeping turns into a surprise: he was weeping... | |
 | United States Armed Forces Institute - 1942 - 532 pages
...read." Epitaph on the Politician Here, richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician's corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and...slanged, I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged. For False Heart WH Dames ACCORDING to his own biography, W(illiam) H(enry) Davies was born in a public-house... | |
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Here richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician's corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged. 