| John Diprose - 1878 - 336 pages
...Moore's poems, the poet wrote, in return, the following biting epigram : " They say he has no heart : but I deny it ; He has a heart — and gets his speeches by it." NEGROES AT HOME. WHEN Lord Byron was in Parliament, a petition setting forth, and calling for redress... | |
| National Sunday school union - 1709 - 586 pages
...thould be unable to speak extemporaneously. Remember Sheridan's epigram, " They say he has no heart, but I deny it, He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it." The expedient is easily detected, and the discovery invariably detracts from the effect of a speech, no... | |
| Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1881 - 738 pages
...speak of, yet feel it, But even in feeling it, know it unknown ? LE London, They say he has no heart ; but I deny it : He has a heart — and gets his speeches by it. & Rogers Mine be the heart that can itself defend — Hate to the foe, devotion to the friend ! Lyilon,... | |
| Percy Fitzgerald - England - 1881 - 946 pages
...Memory was himself as unsparing of others, and wrote of an acquaintance: They say that Ward's no heart, but I deny it. He has a heart and gets his speeches by it. Physical infirmities or blemishes were "fair game." A wit said to a courtier with long legs and a long... | |
| 1881 - 314 pages
...thoroughly unfeeling that it is commonly said he has no heart. Mr. Rogers, They say Ward has no heart, But I deny it, He has a heart, And gets his speeches by it. November 24th. Tom came in at luncheon. We talked of the great man's promises which he has been throwing... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1881 - 290 pages
...CRUEL. Rogers's well-known epigram on Mr Ward (afterwards Lord Dudley) — " They say Ward has no heart, but I deny it; He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it — " was provoked (says Gronow) by a remark made at table by Mr Ward. On Rogers observing that his... | |
| Samuel Arthur Bent - Anecdotes - 1882 - 638 pages
...that his critic was accustomed to practise his speeches, which he gave out as unpremeditated : — " Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it: He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it." When Ward, who had been a Whig, turned Tory, and said, . " I wonder what would make me turn Whig again,"... | |
| Justin McCarthy - Great Britain - 1882 - 302 pages
...for the witty epigram which praises his memory at the expense of his affections.' The epigram is : Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it ; He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it. These lines, however, we think, were not written for Henry Ward. They were written by Rogers and referred... | |
| James Hogg, Florence Marryat - English literature - 1882 - 780 pages
...Commons, and was accustomed to learn 1ш speeches by heart. This was Rogers' opportunity for revenge : ' Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it; He has a heart, nndyets his »peechts by il.' Epitaph in St. Benet's Churchyard, London, to a Mr. More : ' Here lies... | |
| Mortimer Collins - 1883 - 264 pages
...sermons you may be inclined to doubt ; unless, perhaps, in the sense of Rogers's epigram on Lord Ward — Ward has no heart, they say ; but I deny it. He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it. Applegate, however, did not get his sermons by heart, though he put heart into his sermons. He preached... | |
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