 | 1896 - 1224 pages
...k. ALAIN RENE LE SAGE — Oil Bias. Bk. III. Ch. XI. Wit is the flower of the imagination. I. LIVT. TO. MOORF. — Lines OH the Death of Shrridnn. St. 11. Wit is the most rascally, contemptible, beggarly... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1897 - 666 pages
...Whose humour, as gay as the fire-fly's light, Played round every subject, and shone as it played ; Whose wit, in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er...tried, Whether reason or fancy, the gay or the grave, — as as rapid, as deep, and as brilliant a tide, As ever bore Freedom aloft on its wave ! " Yes —... | |
 | Charlotte Brewster Jordan - 1897 - 208 pages
...clear, sweet singer with the crown of snow, Not whiter than the thoughts that housed below." 15. " Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade." 16. " Were't the last drop in the well, As I gasped upon the brink, Ere my fainting spirit fell, "Tis... | |
 | DeWitt Scoville Clark - 1897 - 46 pages
...however, so dangerous in the exercise, he never employed maliciously, and all would agree that it —" In the combat as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade." An ever present courtliness and courtesy constituted no little of the charm he had for all whom he... | |
 | 1897 - 678 pages
...Whose humour, as gay as the firefly's light, Play'd round every subject, and shone, as it played : — Whose wit, in the combat as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart stain away on its blade." Her illustrious son, the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava, in the charming... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1898 - 88 pages
...gaining the good will and holding the attention of his audience. He was quick in repartee and yet one Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade. Mr. MILLIKEN was a natural scholar. He was impatient, it is true, of the more laborious processes of... | |
 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1898 - 592 pages
...Selden says : " No man is the wiser for his learning — wit and wisdom are born with a man." In Moore : "Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heartstain away on its blade." In Swift's Writings : "'Tis an old maxim in the schools That flattery is the food of fools ; Yet now... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 578 pages
...— " Whose humor, as gay as the firefly's light, Played round every subject, and shone as it played; Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright. Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade." There is the uncouth mirth, that winds, stutters, wriggles, and screams, dark, scornful, and savage,... | |
 | Century Association (New York, N.Y.). - 1901 - 178 pages
...drew the breath of life, bubbling over with boyish enthusiasm, gifted with an irrepressible humor, ' ' Whose wit in the combat as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade." Buoyant, fascinating, pervading the very air with his contagious sympathy, he was the centre of every... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 pages
...Tara's Balls Who ran Through each mode of the lyre, and was master of all. On Ike Death of Sheridan. Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright, Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade. ibid. Good at a fight, but better at a play ; Godlike in giving, but the devil to pay. On a Cast of... | |
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Whose wit, in the combat, as gentle as bright, " Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade... 
