| William Alexander Duer - 1819 - 212 Seiten
...gentleman, whether you consider your plighted honour saved by your explanation. Are you content to " Keep the word of promise to the ear " And break it to the hope ?''——— Where, Sir, " is the irrefragable proof produced '• by Mr. Fulton," to redeem your pledge... | |
| 1822 - 764 Seiten
...Anecdotes of Humanity.' We shared the fate of those who are intent upon untried delicacies ; — ' they keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the bope' — chiefly, we suppose, because the ' hope' is screwed beyond the sticking-place. We scarcely... | |
| Sir Thomas Charles Morgan - 1822 - 412 Seiten
...regard to justice or to humanity. In the best times, the whole effort of international policy is " to keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the sense." Treaties, destined it is said to last for ever, are stipulatedin the name of the Holy and undivided... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1822 - 452 Seiten
...as I have told her a thousand times, no force shall be put upon her inclinations." mother would not keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope." Mrs. Beaumont, feeling herself change countenance, made an attempt to blow her nose, and succeeded... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 330 Seiten
...declaration, in which I will confide, and, in future, not suffer appearances to alarm me. A mother would not keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope." Mrs. Beaumont, feeling herself change countenance, made an attempt to blow her nose, and succeeded... | |
| Samuel O'Sullivan - 1825 - 300 Seiten
...affections; she availed herself frequently of those indeterminate words, — those ambiguous phrases which keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the heart. In fact, they had become letters just calculated to awaken the indignation of an impassioned... | |
| Basil Montagu - 1825 - 136 Seiten
...legislative reform, tend to prolong, for it cannot perpetuate, theif continuance? Does it do more than " Keep the word of promise to the ear. And break it to our hope ?" I state the questions with the hope of rendering some assistance in their solution: but... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1828 - 838 Seiten
...of his majesty's ministers that it should be executed — fully executed. It was never intended " to keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope." It was meant to be fulfilled, iu spirit, as well as to the letter. His understanding upon this subject... | |
| 1831 - 502 Seiten
...the Pavilion. If Mr Monck Mason, the new lessee of the Italian Opera House, do not, however, merely " keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope," we arc about to enter a new era of history in our musical taste ; and towards " a consummation so devoutly... | |
| 844 Seiten
...consistent and divine, even so should he speak of it. If we admit not the justice of this, we give the word of promise to the ear and break it to the sense. That which does not deserve ridicule and contempt, is invariably strengthened and advanced by... | |
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