| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1825 - 582 pages
...et qui avait dit qu'il écrivait assez bien « pour un banquier : « They say he has no heart , and deny it : « He has a heart — and gets his speeches by it. » « On dit qu'il n'a point de cœur; je le nie : il a un cœur, « car il apprend ses discours par... | |
| Henry Erskine Head - 1831 - 106 pages
...Providence ensure this ? SON. What witticisms would not this occasion ? " Some say he has no heart, but I deny it, He has a heart and gets his speeches by it" This epigram, which I have seen on some speaker in Parliament, and a thousand things like it, would... | |
| Literature - 1833 - 488 pages
...on ; it has the true Greek talent of expressing by implication what is wished to be conveyed. ' — has no heart they say, but I deny it ; He has a heart — he gets his speeches by it.' This is the ne plus ultra of English epigrams." I told Byron that... | |
| George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1834 - 188 pages
...* ; it has the true Greek talent of expressing by implication what is wished to be conveyed. " * * has no heart they say, but I deny it ; He has a heart — he gets his speeches by it." This is the ne plus ultra of English epigrams. TRUTH AND FICTION.... | |
| 1841 - 618 pages
...overmuch ; for he would sometimes quote the well-known distich — ' Ward has no heart, they say, hut I deny it, He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it.' He admitted the point, and returned, as usual, a Roland for an Oliver. His review on Mr. Rogers's 'Columbus'*... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1844 - 786 pages
...do not lut a copy go without the 'not;' it is nonsense, •' [ • • They say Ward has no heart, but I deny It : He has a heart, and gets his speeches by It."] and worse than nonsense, as it now stands. I wish the printer was saddled with a vampire. " PS —... | |
| Languages, Modern - 1861 - 494 pages
...die Gabe, scharfe Epigramme in wenig Worten zuzuspitzen und führte gern als Beispiel folgendes an: „Ward has no heart, they say; but I deny it. He has a heart, and gets his 8peeches by it.'' „Man sagt, Ward habe kein Herz; doch ich leugne das. Wohl hat er eines, wie seine... | |
| Joe Miller - 1848 - 248 pages
...Samuel Rogers's jeu d'tsprit (revived in the 68th vol. of the Quarterly} was perhaps the best : — " Ward has no heart, they say ; but I deny it — He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it." A POST OBIT. — Colonel Bond, who had been one of the judges of King Charles I., died a day or two... | |
| Early English newspapers - 1848 - 798 pages
...proposed to be so, — ' He lired without an office, and died without a You say Ward has no heart j but I deny it, He has a heart— and gets his speeches by it. It is curious that this book has gone to a second edition without the blunder relating to this epigram... | |
| Languages, Modern - 1861 - 488 pages
...scharfe Epigramme in wenig Worten zuzuspitzen und führte gern als Beispiel folgendes an: „Ward lias no heart, they say; but I deny it. He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it." „Man sagt, Ward habe kein Herz; doch ich leugne das. Wohl hat er eines, wie seine auswendig gelernten... | |
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