 | Arthur Silva White - Egypt - 1899 - 554 pages
...expert and tactful in order to escape being crushed.1 Some of these timid time-servers naturally ask : ' I am His Highness's dog at Kew : Pray tell me, Sir, whose dog are you?' They want to know, ' how they stand with us ? ' And until they are assured of our protection, as well... | |
 | Mary Dillon - Fiction - 1904 - 508 pages
...his and Mr. Gratiot's enigmatical glances in my direction. CHAPTER III I MEET AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE " I am his Highness's dog at Kew ; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?" LLONS !" said Mr. Pierre Chouteau, "I will show you the village. There are yet two hours before Dr.... | |
 | Mary Dillon, Mary C. Johnson Dillon - Louisiana Purchase - 1904 - 496 pages
...his and Mr. Gratiot's enigmatical glances in my direction. CHAPTER III I MEET AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE " I am his Highness's dog at Kew ; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are yout" LLONS !" said Mr. Pierre Chouteau, "I will show you the village. There are yet two hours before... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1911 - 784 pages
...According to the gift which bounteous nature Hath in him closed. 1277 Shaks. : Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 1. I am his Highness's dog at Kew ! Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you? 1278 Pope : On the Collar of a Dog he gave to the Prince, DOMINION. Here we may reign secure, and in... | |
 | Whitelaw Reid - Digital images - 1913 - 360 pages
...newspapers are worthless. That charming book, Arthur Help's " Thoughts upon Government," contains some words that deserve the profoundest attention of any...profession a new and beneficent Declaration of Independence affbrds.Under it journalism expands in a balanced and unfettered development; ceases to be one-sided... | |
 | Whitelaw Reid - Education - 1913 - 362 pages
...learning an3 religiorTKeeps ever barking only this: "I amjffis Highness's dog at Kew: Pray, telljne, Sir, whose dog are you; " an end, as Emerson has taught...the happy phrase, at once of official and officinal journalism—that is the boon which to every perplexed conscientious member of the profession a new... | |
 | Gordon S. Maxwell - Literary landmarks - 1924 - 350 pages
...Pope used to visit him, and once gave him a dog, composing the lines he had engraved on its collar : " I am His Highness's dog at Kew, Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you ? " It is, however, more in connection with the Prince's son, George III., that Kew remembers its regal... | |
 | Michael Dirda - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 340 pages
...have been faithful to thee, Cynara! In my fashion." I laughed at Pope's couplet for a dog's collar: "I am his Highness's dog at Kew,/ Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?" And marveled that Marianne Moore could begin a poem, entitled "Poetry," with the words: "I, too, dislike... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1881 - 918 pages
...recall the inscription on the collar of the dog presented by him to Frederick, Prince of Wales : " I am his Highness's dog at Kew ; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you ?" The feeling thrown into the translation from Homer which we have quoted above, would almost stand... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1870 - 602 pages
...uncomplimentary epigram, inscribed on the collar of the dog he gave to Frederick, Prince of Wales : — ' I am his Highness's dog at Kew : Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you P ' Epigrams which involve a pun are contemned by the best critics ; still some of them are amusing.... | |
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I am his Highness's dog at Kew ; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you ? On the Collar of a Dog. 
