 ... to both countries: for instance, was there not some slight confusion of ideas in the mind of that English student, who, when he was asked what progress he had made in the study of medicine, replied...  Tales and Novels - Page 96by Maria Edgeworth - 1832Full view - About this book
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth - Bulls, Colloquial - 1803 - 322 pages
...constitute a bull, or this would be one. Another de.< finition, if you please, sir." l Irishman.—" To amend our bill, suppose we insert the word laughable and say, that a certain laughable confusion of ideas constitute a bull." Englishman.—" Still there are english blunders... | |
 | 1803 - 572 pages
...consider an extravagant conceit, an hyperbole, and a built as synonymous, which we cannot admit. . " A painted vest prince Vortigern had on, Which from a naked Pict his grandaire won ;" Here we have a genuine bull : but the following couplet, •' He roar'd so loud,... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - Bulls, Colloquial - 1808 - 302 pages
...replied, " I hope I shall soon be qualified to be a physician, for I think I am nowable to cure a~child ?" To amend our bill, suppose we insert the word laughable,...laughable confusion of ideas constitutes a bull. But 1iave not we a laughable confusion of' ideas in our english poet Blackmore's famous lines in prince... | |
 | 1814 - 550 pages
...to clothing ! never were waistcoats and pantaloons so facetious. The author of those famous lines, A painted vest Prince Vortigern had on, Which from a naked Pict his gnwdsire woo, might have completely justified them, had Mr. Fuseli been the tailor of those days... | |
 | England - 1834 - 918 pages
...in the rear I saw a flaming patriot, not unlike Lord Nugent, with nothing but his shirt — while " A painted vest Prince Vortigern had on, Which from a naked Pict his grandsire won." SHEPHERD. Haw ! haw ! haw I TICKLER. Funerals were no more black-jobs. SHEPHERD.... | |
 | United States - 1822 - 590 pages
...was, indeed, being a patron at the expense of the papacy. There is a curious couplet in Blackmore's Arthur : A painted vest prince Vortigern had on, Which from a naked Pict his grandsire won. Bishop Warburton, in his Notes on Shaksn«are, says, the story of Measure for Measure... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - English literature - 1824 - 402 pages
..." I hope I shall soon be qualified to be a physician, for I think I am now able to cure a child ?" To amend our bill, suppose we insert the, word laughable,...laughable confusion of ideas constitutes a bull. But have not we a laughable confusion of ideas in our Engligh poet Blackmore's famous lines in prince Arthur... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 370 pages
..." I hope I shall soon be qualified to be a physician, for I think I am now able to cure a child ?" To amend our bill, suppose we insert the word laughable,...laughable confusion of ideas constitutes a bull. But have not we a laughable confusion of ideas in our English poet Blackmore's famous lines in prince Arthur... | |
 | Henry Neele - English poetry - 1830 - 582 pages
...made himself immortal by two memorable lines, which will suffice as a specimen of his merits : — " A. painted vest Prince Vortigern had on, Which from a naked Pict his grandsire won !" The authenticity of the Poems ascribed to Ossian, is a subject full of doubt and... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1832 - 344 pages
...replied, " I hope I shall soon be qualified to be a physician, for I think I am now able to cure a child?" To amend our bill, suppose we insert the word laughable,...painted vest prince Vortigern had on, Which from a naked Fict his grandsire won." We are sensible that, to many people, the most vulgar Irish bull would appear... | |
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