 | Edmund Burke - History - 1849 - 1012 pages
...display of so soporific a character. The poor Frenchmen did all they could to conciliate this amiable specimen of the British public. They opened by playing...and is another mark of the want of originality which signalized the proceedings of last night. The rioters went on hallooing, hooting, whistling through... | |
 | Books - 1849 - 980 pages
...display of so soporific a character. The poor Frenchmen did all they could to conciliate this amiable specimen of the British public. They opened by playing...and is another mark of the want of originality which signalized the proceedings of last night. The rioters went on hallooing, hooting, whistling through... | |
 | History - 1849 - 982 pages
...display of so soporific a character. The poor Frenchmen did all they could to conciliate this amiable specimen of the British public. They opened by playing..." as a signal for uproar is borrowed from the old " 0. P." days, and is another mark of the want of originality which signalized the proceedings of last... | |
 | Clement Scott - Actors - 1899 - 682 pages
...have despised such heavy tapageurs. The poor Frenchmen did all they could to conciliate this amiable specimen of the British public. " They opened by playing...' as a signal for uproar is borrowed from the old '0. P.' days, and is another mark of the want of originality which signalised the proceedings of last... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1849 - 978 pages
...display of so soporific a character. The poor Frenchmen did all they could to conciliate this amiable specimen of the British public. They opened by playing...and is another mark of the want of originality which signalized the proceedings of last night. The rioters went on hallooing, hooting, whistling through... | |
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... the uproar ; but here was a long, dull, dismal, dreary display of malignity, which was effective from the mere fact that it was wearisome. One could not have conceived so much noise mixed up with a display of so soporific a character. The poor Frenchmen... 