 | William Mathews - 1876 - 322 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 by it. It is said that Rogers was helped a little in writing this epigram by Richard Sharp. The poet was speedily... | |
 | William Swinton - English language - 1876 - 178 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, and gets his speeches by it! " Satire (Latin satira, a mixture). A production in which follies and vices are ridiculed, sometimes... | |
 | James Edwin Thorold Rogers - 1876 - 206 pages
...acknowledge to having had in my mind the excellent epigram of Samuel Rogers : — 'Ward has no heart, folks say, but I deny it, He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it.' ' Nor chatter to a city of the dead, 'And never touch one heart, or teach one head. ' Give me a man... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 334 pages
..." His well-known epigram on Mr. Ward, afterwards Lord Dudley, — " They say that Ward's no heart ; but I deny it, He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it," was provoked by a remark made at table by Mr. Ward. On Rogers observing that his carriage was broken... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - American literature - 1876 - 870 pages
...criticisms on the poet, who retaliated with that epigrammatic couplet, which has never been surpassed — R. Ch — he gets his speeches by it. The poet, it is said, on one occasion tried to extort a confession... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1877 - 460 pages
...specimen of the calibre of his wit, and the not very great depth or severity of his invective : — " Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it — He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it." It took him, he said, a fortnight to form this couplet, and polish it so deftly that it could be polished... | |
 | William Swinton - English language - 1877 - 134 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, and gets his speeches by it ! Satire (Latin satira, a mixture). A production in which follies and vices are ridiculed, sometimes... | |
 | Epigrams - Epigrams, English - 1877 - 130 pages
...And of all wit the lowest sort, I grant ; for by its station 'Tis evidently wit's foundation. W >ARD has no heart they say, but I deny it ; He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it. SAM ROGERS. The Correspondent and the Editor. A CORRESPONDENT, something new Transmitting, signed himself... | |
 | English epigrams - 1878 - 464 pages
...afterwards Lord Lyndhurst, was Solicitor-General.] LIX. ON JOHN WILLIAM WARD (AFTERWARDS LORD DUDLEY). Ward has no heart, they say ; but I deny it ; — He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it. Samuel Rogers (1763-1855). [This has been ascribed to Byron, but was really written by Rogers, " with... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Biography - 1878 - 482 pages
...criticism during its composition ; and he well merited the characteristic retaliation which it provoked : ' Ward has no heart, they say ; but I deny it. He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it.' According to the author of the ' Table Talk,' Eogers confessed to have written this epigram, with a... | |
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Ward has no heart, they say; but I deny it ; He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it. 
