 | Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) - Great Britain - 1834 - 40 pages
...sullen and obstinate donkeys. While Mr. Merryman, who, like the Lord Chan30 cellor, was once the very life of the ring, now lies his despairing length in...stage, with his jokes exhausted and his bottle empty ! Enough, Gentlemen, of the Reform Ministry, and the Reformed Parliament. Let us hope that the time... | |
 | American literature - 1849 - 600 pages
...while Mr. Merryman, who like the Chancellor (Brougham,) was once the very life of the ring, now lies in despairing length in the middle of the stage with his jokes exhausted and his bottle empty. As to his literary pretensions we have before intimated that we think them frivolous. He has a certain... | |
 | Thomas Macknight - Great Britain - 1854 - 660 pages
...sullen and obstinate donkeys. While Mr. Merryman, who, like the Lord Chancellor, was once the very life of the ring, now lies his despairing length in...stage, with his jokes exhausted, and his bottle empty." This is certainly a clever piece of abuse. There is nothing very noble in it indeed, but there is much... | |
 | Thomas Macknight - Great Britain - 1854 - 662 pages
...sullen and obstinate donkeys. While Mr. Merryman, who, like the Lord Chancellor, was once the very life of the ring, now lies his despairing length in...stage, with his jokes exhausted, and his bottle empty." This is certainly a clever piece of abuse. There is nothing very noble in it indeed, but there is much... | |
 | John McGilchrist - Statesmen - 1868 - 140 pages
...Merryman, who, like the Lord Chancellor,* was once the life of the ring, now lays his despairing leugtU in the middle of the stage, with his jokes exhausted and his buttle eiu^ty." : Erougliom. CHAPTER III. IITERABY LABOURS — GROWTH OF GENIUS. # DEFEATED at Wycombe... | |
 | 1869 - 1188 pages
...like the Lord Chancellor, was once the very life of tho ring, now lies his despairing length in tlio middle of the stage, with his jokes exhausted and his bottle empty !" The laugh was sometimes rather against himself. " Didn't yon write a novel ? " asked an elector... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1869 - 798 pages
...like the Lord Chancellor, was oace the very life of the ring, now lies his despairing length in tbo middle of the stage, with his jokes exhausted and his bottle empty ! " The laugh was sometimes rather against himself. " Didn't you write a novel ? " asked an elector... | |
 | 1874 - 864 pages
...sullen and obstinate donkeys, whilo Mr. Merryman, who, like the Lord Chancellor, was once the very life of the ring, now lies his despairing length in...stage, with his jokes exhausted and his bottle empty. A little before this Mr. Disraeli had, in his Vindication of the English Constitution, spoken of the... | |
 | Thomas Power O'Connor - Great Britain - 1879 - 756 pages
...sullen and obstinate donkeys. While Mr. Merryman, who. like the Lord Chancellor, was once the very life of the ring, now lies his despairing length in...stage, with his jokes exhausted and his bottle empty ! " — Hid. 29 — 31. In the title-page of the " Crisis Examined." as well as in that of other works... | |
 | Francis Hitchman - Great Britain - 1879 - 492 pages
...obstinate donkeys. While Mr. Merryman, who, like the Lord Chancellor (Brougham), was once the very life of the ring, now lies his despairing length in...stage, with his jokes exhausted and his bottle empty." No one will deny that this is about as good of its kind aa anything could be, but Wycombe was not to... | |
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... one brays to the audience, and another rolls in the sawdust. Behold the late Prime Minister and the Reform Ministry ! The spirited and snow-white steeds have gradually changed into an equal number of sullen and obstinate donkeys. While Mr. Merryman,... 
