 | Erastus Otis Haven - English language - 1869 - 422 pages
...entitled " Italy," the poet took his revenge in writing these few lines, which were soon widely quoted : "Ward has no heart, they say; but I deny it: He has a heart, anil gets his speeches by it .'" Such puns are used to give pungency to the expression of thought.... | |
 | 1869 - 450 pages
...rehearsed from memory. Hence it was a common saying, " Ward has no heart." To this Byron answered : — " ' Ward has no heart,' they say ; but I deny it. He has a heart— he gels his speeches by it." But really to have a truth " by heart" is a widely different thing from... | |
 | Epigrammatists - 1870 - 654 pages
...so sweet as Melancholy ! ON JW WARD (AFTERWARDS EARL OF DUDLEY). (Bogers' " Table Talk," 1856, 152.) Ward has no heart, they say ; but I deny it ; — He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it. Rogers wrote this epigram, " with aome little assistance from Richard Sharp," to revenge himself for... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - Epigrams - 1870 - 652 pages
...so sweet as Melancholy ! ON JW WARD (AFTERWARDS KARL OF DUDLEY). (Rogers' " Table Talk," 185U, 152.) Ward has no heart, they say ; but I deny it ; — He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it. Rogers wrote this epigram, " with some little assistance from Richard Sharp," to revenge himself for... | |
 | Francis Fisher Broune - 1870 - 524 pages
...cut-and-dry speeches for extempore ones, the banker-poet gave him the following rapier-like thrust: Ward has no heart, they say ; but I deny it : He has a heart, and gets his speeches ly it. Few epigrams are more ingenious than the following parody on the noted grammatical line, Bifrcns... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1870 - 536 pages
...cut-and-dry speeches for extempore ones, the banker-poet gave him the following rapier-like thrust: Ward has no heart, they say ; but I deny it : He has a heart, zndgvts his speeches by it. Few epigrams are more ingenious than the following parody on the noted... | |
 | Literature - 1874 - 808 pages
...written at the expense of Ward, the author of " Tremaine," who had somehow contrived to offend him : " Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it ; He has a heart — he gets his speeches by it." Sir John Harington wrote a stinging political epigram, which is as... | |
 | Sydney Smith - English literature - 1870 - 470 pages
...devar*ion." Luttrell came over for a day (writes Smith, to Lady Holland, " Ward has no heart, they say, bat I deny it; He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it. Dudley, (as Loekhart remarks), took capital revenge, in a review of Rogers' Columbus, in the Quarterly,... | |
 | George William F. Howard (7th earl of Carlisle.) - 1864 - 448 pages
...consulted about its single lines during the protracted composition ; hence Bogers's well-known revenge : " Ward has no heart they say, but I deny it ; He has a heart and gets his speeches by it." MAY 18. — Went with Harriet to dine with the Argylls ; we met Sir John Lawrence and the Gladstones.... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1871 - 550 pages
...have fired an epigram at him, which is not much better ; I suppose it is Tom Moore's : — ' "W — d has no heart, they say, but I deny it ; He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it.' " You heard, I suppose, of Sheridan having at length been arrested, owing to his usual folly and delays.... | |
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Ward has no heart, they say; but I deny it ; He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it. 
