| 1827 - 790 pages
...does — for he employs his fancy in his narratives, and keeps his recollections for his wit — when he makes his jokes you applaud the accuracy of his memory, and 'tis only when he states liis facts, that you admire the flights of his imagination. " " Lady Clio. ' What am I reading ? '... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1825 - 564 pages
...does — for he employs his fancy in his narratives f and keeps his recollections for his wit — when he makes his jokes you applaud the accuracy of his...imagination.* " A fat woman trundling into a room on castors — in sitting can only lean against her chair — rings on her fingers, and her fat arms strangled... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1825 - 510 pages
...— for he employs his fancy in his narratives, and keeps his recollection for his wit: — • when he makes his jokes, you applaud the accuracy of his...facts that you admire the flights of his imagination." After many efforts to express this thought more concisely, and to reduce the language of it to that... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1825 - 654 pages
...eyes up and down like Venetian blinds" — "Her eyelids pi»y like a Venetian blind," &c. &c. r..iry, and 'tis only when he states his facts, that you admire...imagination.* " A fat woman trundling into a room on castors — in sitting can only lean against her chair — rings on her fingers, and her fat arms strangled... | |
| 1826 - 868 pages
...qualities as no other person does—for he employs his fancy in his narratives, and keeps his recollection for his wit:—when he makes his jokes, you applaud...facts that you admire the flights of his imagination.' After many efforts to express this thought more concisely, and to reduce the language of it to that... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1826 - 570 pages
...does — for he employs his fancy in his narratives, and keeps his recollection for his wit : — when he makes his jokes, you applaud the accuracy of his...facts that you admire the flights of his imagination." After many efforts to express this thought more concisely, and to reduce the language of it to that... | |
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1826 - 362 pages
...does— for he employs his fancy in his narratives, and keeps his recollection for his wit : — when he makes his jokes, you applaud the accuracy of his...facts that you admire the flights of his imagination." After many efforts to express this thought more concisely, and to reduce the language of it to that... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1827 - 584 pages
...does — for he employs his fancy in his narratives, and keeps his recollections for his wit — when he makes his jokes you applaud the accuracy of his...that you admire the flights of his imagination.* " A fet woman trundling into a room on castors — . in sitting can only lean against her chair — rings... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1832 - 520 pages
...does — for he employs his fancy in his narratives, and keeps his recollection for his wit : — when he makes his jokes, you applaud the accuracy of his...facts that you admire the flights of his imagination." After many efforts to express this thought more concisely, and to reduce the language of it to that... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1832 - 846 pages
...i — for he employs his fancy in his narratives, and keeps his recollection for his wit : — when he makes his jokes, you applaud the accuracy of his memory, and 'tis only when he states his facts th; admire the flights of his imagination.' After many efforts to express this thought more conciscl'.... | |
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