Is it a party in a parlour, Crammed just as they on earth were crammed, Some sipping punch — some sipping tea, But, as you by their faces see, All silent, and all damned ! Peter Bell, by W. Essays and Reviews ... - Seite 20von Edwin Percy Whipple - 1848 - 360 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1829 - 1008 Seiten
...they on earth were ion !) the rhyme in the next line cramm'd, •- - Some sipping punch, some drinking tea; But, as you by their faces see, All silent, and all — damn'd " ' I asked my Wordsworthian friend if he really and truly could admire this passage! "Admire... | |
| 1819 - 532 Seiten
...After many equally pertinent inquiries, touching this sight, it is asked, Is it a party in a parlour? Crammed just as they on earth were crammed — Some...you by their faces see, All silent and all damned! We suspect the conclusion is a pun on a water dam, but for the rest of the verse we again profess our... | |
| 1819 - 792 Seiten
...miles from all hU brethren ? Is it a party in a parlour ? Cramm'd just as they on earth were cramm'd— Some sipping punch, some sipping tea, But, as you by their faces see, All silent and all damn'd 1 A throbbing pulse the Gazer hath — Puzzled he was, and now is daunted ; He looks, he cannot... | |
| 1819 - 792 Seiten
...from all his brethren ? Is it a party in a parlour ? Cramm'd just as they oh earth wore cramm'd— Some sipping punch, some sipping tea, But, as you by their faces все, All silent and all damn'd ! A throbbing pulse the Gazer hath — Puzzled he was, and now is... | |
| 1820 - 442 Seiten
...from all his brethren ? Is it a party in a parlour? Cramm'd just as they on earth were cramm'd — Some sipping punch, some sipping tea, But, as you by their faces see, All silent and all damn'd ! No ; it is none of these. The fearful sight turns out to be no other than a drowned man, the... | |
| 1904 - 738 Seiten
...Wordsworth after 1819 : " Is it a party in a parlour ? Cramm'd just as they on earth were cramm'd— Some sipping punch, some sipping tea, But, as you by their faces see, All silent and all damn'd! " This curious image was suggested to Wordsworth by Mrs. Basil Montagu, who related to him... | |
| John Galt - 1830 - 340 Seiten
...a party in a parlour, Cramm'd, just as they on earth are cramm'd, Some sipping punch, some drinking tea ; But as you by their faces see, All silent, and all— damn'd ?" IT is not necessary to inform the patient reader, who has proceeded so far with me, that... | |
| John William Carleton - 1852 - 688 Seiten
...FINISH OF THE RACING SEASON— 1852. BY CRAVEN. " It is a party, in a parlour, Crammed, just as thc-y un earth were crammed: Some sipping punch, some sipping...you by their faces see, All silent and all damned." WILLIAM WORDS WORTH, LATE POET LAUHEATH. " Nil actum reputaus, dum quid supercsset agendum." AN ANCIENT... | |
| 1842 - 414 Seiten
...circle in a parlor," mentioned in Peter Bell — " Crammed just as they on earth were erammed : Sume sipping punch, some sipping tea, But, as you by their...pitilessly, in the wholesale condemnation of John Wilson Croker's edition of Boswell's Johnson. The purity of the critical ermine, like that of the judicial,... | |
| John Wilson - 1842 - 426 Seiten
...a party in a parlour Cramm'd just as they on earth were cramm'd, Some sipping punch, some drinking tea; But, as you by their faces see, All silent, and all — darnn'd!" 1 asked my Wordsworthian friend if he really and truly could admire this passage ! "Admire... | |
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