 Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the...  The North British Review - Strona 1351857Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | Francis Mahony - 1860 - Liczba stron: 654
...importunate chink, while thousands of great cattle, reposing under the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those...the noise are the only inhabitants of the field." It is right, however, in common fairness towards Horace, to remark, that while fighting in his juvenile... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1860 - Liczba stron: 644
...whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed heneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and arc silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhahitants of the field ; that of course, they are many in numher; or that, after all, they are other... | |
 | William Fitzgerald (bp. of Killaloe.) - 1862 - Liczba stron: 106
...thousands of great cattle, reposing under the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, — do not imagine that those who make the noise are the...though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour." This passage, as you know, is taken from the Reflections on the French Revolution ; and the circumstances... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - Liczba stron: 788
...importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those...though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour. BURKE'B LAMENTATION OVER HIS SON. Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I should... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - Liczba stron: 696
...importunate chink, while thousands of great cattle reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray, do not imagine that...that of course they are many in number; or that after ail they are other that « ceux1 qui ont sur leur tête un bon toit et sur leur « dos un bon habit,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - Liczba stron: 698
...loques, de paille et de misérables chif« fons de papier sali à propos des droits de l'homme*. » the little shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour. 1. Macaulay, Life of William Pitt. 2. I almost venture to affirm that not one in a hundredamong us... | |
 | The North American Review.VOL.XCVIII - 1864 - Liczba stron: 654
...reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, it is not to be imagined that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants...though loud and troublesome insects of the hour." It will very soon be unprofitable for any political party, however unscrupulous, to undertake the patronage... | |
 | 1864 - Liczba stron: 656
...reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, it is not to be imagined that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants...though loud and troublesome insects of the hour." It will very soon be unprofitable for any political party, however unscrupulous, to undertake the patronage... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1864 - Liczba stron: 554
...importunate chink, while thousands of great cattle, reposing beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those...they are many in number ; or that, after all, they arc other than the little, shriveled, meager, hopping, though loud and roublesome, insects of the hour.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - Liczba stron: 784
...importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those...though loud and troublesome, insects of the hour. BURKE'S LAMENTATION OVER HIS so.v. Had it pleased God to continue to me the hopes of succession, I... | |
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