 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1891 - 602 pages
...manner of people and principles, in order to provoke Carlyle to abuse them, in which laudable enterprize he must have succeeded to his heart's content, and...amusing evening, reminding me of a naughty boy rubbing a cat's tail backwards, and getting in between furious growls and fiery sparks. He managed to avoid the... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - English periodicals - 1891 - 576 pages
...— 'Monckton Milnes came yesterday and left this morning — a pleasant, companionable little man— delighting in paradoxes, but good-humoured ones ;...rubbing a fierce cat's tail backwards, and getting in between furious growls and fiery sparks. He managed to avoid the threatened scratches' (vol. ip... | |
 | Literature - 1888 - 508 pages
...some small remlant of poetry in his eyes and nowhere else, deighting in paradoxes, but good-humored ones; defending all manner of people and principles...succeeded to his heart's content, and for a time we liad a most amusing evening, reminding me of a naughty boy rubbing a tierce cat's tail backwards, and... | |
 | Thomas Wemyss Reid - Authors, English - 1890 - 558 pages
...Monckton Milnes came yesterday, and left this morning — a pleasant companionable little man, well fed and fattening, with some small remnant of poetry in...rubbing a fierce cat's tail backwards, and getting in between furious growls and fiery sparks. He managed to avoid the threatened scratches." Between... | |
 | Thomas Wemyss Reid - 1890 - 556 pages
...fattening, with some small remnant of poetry in his eyes and nowhere else ; delighting in paradoxes, hut good-humoured ones ; defending all manner of people...rubbing a fierce cat's tail backwards, and getting in between furious growls and fiery sparks. He managed to avoid the threatened scratches." Between... | |
 | 1891 - 1118 pages
...some small remnant of poetry in his eyea and nowhere else ; delighting in paradoxes, but good-humored ones, defending all manner of people and principles,...Carlyle to abuse them, in which laudable enterprise he muet have succeeded to his heart's content, and for a time we had a most amusing evening, reminding... | |
 | Francis Espinasse - Literary Criticism - 1893 - 452 pages
...statesman, thus describes Milnes teasing Carlyle when both were his guests at Rawdon, near Leeds : ' Monckton Milnes came yesterday, and left this morning...rubbing a fierce cat's tail backwards, and, getting in between furious growls 'and fiery sparks, he managed to avoid the threatened scratches. ' CHAPTER... | |
 | John Willis Clark - Biography - 1900 - 416 pages
...' Monckton Miles came yesterday and left this morning — a pleasant, companionable little man — delighting in paradoxes, but good-humoured ones ;...rubbing a fierce cat's tail backwards, and getting in between furious growls and fiery sparks. He managed to avoid the threatened scratches ' (vol. ip... | |
 | John N. Crawford - Authors, English - 1903 - 432 pages
...some small remnant of poetry in his eyes and nowhere else ; delighting in paradoxes, but good-humored ones ; defending all manner of people and principles,...amusing evening, reminding me of a naughty boy rubbing a cat's tail backward and getting in between furious growls and fiery sparks. He managed to avoid the... | |
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Monckton Milnes came yesterday, and left this morning — a pleasant companionable little man, well fed and fattening, with some small remnant of poetry in his eyes and nowhere else ; delighting in paradoxes, but good-humoured ones ; defending all manner... 