| Walter Scott - 1846 - 710 Seiten
...wishes — fearful of raising expectations which we may be unable to gratify — desirous not " to keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope" — we have presumed to court the assistance of the friends of the drama to strengthen our infant institution.... | |
| 1842 - 242 Seiten
...our wishes---fearful of raising expectations which we may be unable to gratify— desirous not "to keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope" — we have presumed to court the assistance of the friends of the drama to strengthen our infant institution.... | |
| Walter Scott - 1846 - 620 Seiten
...wishes — fearful of raising expectations which we may be unable to gratify — desirous not " to keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope" — we have presumed to court the assistance of the friends of the drama to strengthen our infant institution.... | |
| Valentine Mott - 1842 - 504 Seiten
...daily observance of those ennobling duties, which, when all worldly sources of consolation — that " keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope" — have deserted us forever, can alone extract the thorn from the couch of pain, disarm death of its... | |
| George Canning - 1844 - 646 Seiten
...Colonial Legislatures act bona fide up to the spirit of, that order, with a manifest desire not merely "To keep the word of promise to the ear, And break it to the hope;" not by evasive or illusory enactments, — but with a full and fair intention to carry substantially... | |
| Valentine Mott - 1845 - 470 Seiten
...daily observance of those ennobling duties, which, when all worldly sources of consolation — that " keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope" — have deserted us forever, can alone extract the thorn from the couch of pain, disarm death of its... | |
| Walter Scott - 1845 - 524 Seiten
...wishes — fearful of raising expectations, which we may be unable to gratify — desirous not " to keep the word of promise to the ear, and break it to the hope" — we have presumed to court the assistance of the friends of the drama to strengthen our infant institution.... | |
| Jonathan Blanchard - 1846 - 526 Seiten
...is right, why couple it with a condition which destroys its value ? Why, like Macbeth's witches ; " Keep the word of promise to the ear, " And break it to the heart:—" Why abuse men by giving them a right in theory, which you deny them in practice ? Why insult... | |
| Jonathan Blanchard, Nathan Lewis Rice - 1846 - 534 Seiten
...is right, why couple it with a condition which destroys its value ? Why, like Macbeth's witches ; " Keep the word of promise to the ear, " And break it to the heart : — " Why abuse men by giving them a right in theory, which you deny them in practice ? Why... | |
| mrs. C D Burdett - 1846 - 910 Seiten
...the curfew's rights than did the specious Mrs. Macauley ; but no one better knew than she did how to keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the sense. The floor of her back parlour, if not clean, was at least well sanded; an enormous turf fire... | |
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