 | 1875 - 610 pages
...rottenness and the stiffness is balanced by the elasticity. There is nothing so dangerous as innovation. ... It is well : it works well : let well alone. Cupbearer,...reason why it should be three parts rotten when I die.' But Prince Seithenyn, with his catchword of Gwin o eur — •• wine for gold, a time-honoured apothegm... | |
 | Great Britain - 1829 - 860 pages
...would stand against them half an hour ; and here this immortal old work—which God forbid the linger of modern mason should bring into jeopardy ¡—this...die.' The whole body of the high commission roared ap. probation. 'And after all,' said Seithenyn, ' the worst that could happen would be the overflow... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - Authors, American - 1875 - 448 pages
...battering, rattling and battling against it. I would not be so presumptuous as to say I would build anything that would stand against them half an hour; /and here...reason why it should be three parts rotten when I die.' Admirable sarcasm ! The policy of masterly inaction was very disastrous, as of course it always is... | |
 | Literature - 1875 - 1012 pages
...if we let it alone. It is well ; it works well : let well alone. Cupbearer, fill. It was half-rotten when I was born ; and that is a conclusive reason why it should be three-parts rotten when I die.' " (II. 108.) In the same spirit of delicious irony is conceived the... | |
 | Sir Mungo William MacCallum - Arthurian romances - 1894 - 462 pages
...if we let it alone. It is well : it works well : let well alone. Cupbearer, fill. It was halfrotten when I was born, and that is a conclusive reason why it should be three parts rotten when I die.' " Of course the Misfortunes of Elphin is very slenderly Arthurian — one feels inclined to say that... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1896 - 800 pages
...not be so presumptuous as to say, I could build anything that would stand against them half-an-hour ; and here this immortal old work, which God forbid...worst that could happen would be the overflow of a spring tide, for that was the worst that happened before the embankment was thought of; and if the... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - English fiction - 1897 - 298 pages
...against the arguments of Elphin and the blunter assertions of Teithrin at his first appearance ! ' It was half rotten when I was born, and that is a...reason why it should be three parts rotten when I die ' strikes us now (it is the fate of political reasoning) as a caricature not so much of Tory arguments... | |
 | Universities and colleges - 1910 - 414 pages
...on the evil conditions about him. Michael, and Sueteuyn with his drunken logic: "It was half-rotten when I was born, and that is a conclusive reason why it should be three-parts rotten when I die," still trumpet abroad the sins of the age, but they trumpet such opinions... | |
 | Carl Van Doren - Authors, English - 1911 - 334 pages
...against them half-an-hour ; and here this immortal old work, which God forbid the finger of mortal mason should bring into jeopardy, this immortal work...reason why it should be three parts rotten when I die." 1 This passage might reasonably be taken for the work of a Radical with ideas on the subject of progress,... | |
 | Clive Bell - Art - 1918 - 280 pages
...rattling and battling against it. I would not be so presumptious as to say, I could build anything that would stand against them half an hour ; and here...why it should be three [parts rotten when I die.' " Peacock's attitude towards women affords an example of the liberality of his views and of his isolation.... | |
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I could build any thing that would stand against them half an hour; and here this immortal old work, which God forbid the finger of modern mason should bring into jeopardy, this immortal work has stood for centuries, and will stand for centuries more... 
