 | 1829 - 860 páginas
...I will not altogether deny ; that it is any the worse for that, I do most sturdily gainsay. It does its business well : it works well: it keeps out the...be so rash as to try to mend it, we should only mar ft.' * The stone-work,' said Teithrin, ' is sapped and mined : the piles are rotten, broken, and dislocated... | |
 | 1875 - 864 páginas
...its business well : it works well : it keeps the water out from the land, and it lets in the wine on the High Commission of Embankment. Cupbearer, fill....rash as to try to mend it, we should only mar it." Again, on Elphin mildly hinting that it was scarcely enough that some parts of the sea-wall should... | |
 | 1875 - 786 páginas
...its business well : it works well : it keeps the water out from the land, and it lets in the wine on the High Commission of Embankment. Cupbearer, fill....rash as to try to mend it, we should only mar it." Again, on Elphin mildly hinting that it was scarcely enough that some parts of the sea-wall should... | |
 | 1875 - 780 páginas
...its business well : it works well : it keeps the water out from the land, and it lets in the wine on the High Commission of Embankment. Cupbearer, fill....and if we should be so rash as to try to mend it, wo should only mar it," Again, on Elphin mildly hinting that it was scarcely enough that some parts... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1875 - 498 páginas
...I will not altogether deny ; that it is any the worse for that, I do most sturdily gainsay. It does its business well : it works well : it keeps out the water from the laud, and it lets in the wine iipon the High Commission of Embankment. Cupbearer, fill. Our ancestors... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1885 - 426 páginas
...I will not altogether deny ; that it is any the worse for that, I do most sturdily gainsay. It does its business well : it works well : it keeps out the...the High Commission of Embankment. Cupbearer, filL Oar ancestors were wiser than we : they built it in their wisdom ; and, if we should be so rash as... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1885 - 430 páginas
...I will not altogether deny; that it is any the worse for that, I do most sturdily gainsay. It does its business well: it works well: it keeps out the water from the land, and it lets in the wine upor. the High Commission of Embankment. Cupbearer, filL Our ancestors were wiser than we: they built... | |
 | Alexander Martin Freeman - 1911 - 360 páginas
...parts, I will not altogether deny ; that it is any the worst far that, I do most sturdily gainsay. . . . Our ancestors were wiser than we : they built it in...rash as to try to mend it, we should only mar it. . . . There is nothing so dangerous as innovation. . . . This immortal work has stood for centuries,... | |
 | Helena Maria Swanwick - 1913 - 244 páginas
...I will not altogether deny ; that it is any the worse for that, I do most sturdily gainsay. It does its business well : it works well : it keeps out the...than we : they built it in their wisdom ; and, if we were to be so rash as to try to mend it, we should only mar it." " The stonework," said Teithrin, "... | |
 | Clifford Smyth - 1925 - 850 páginas
...I will not altogether deny; that it is any the worse for that, I do most sturdily gainsay. It does its business well: it works well: it keeps out the...from the land, and it lets in the wine upon the High Commissioner of Embankment. Cupbearer, fill ... The parts that are rotten give elasticity to those... | |
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is one thing, and danger is another. Every thing that is old must decay. That the embankment is old, I am free to confess; that it is somewhat rotten in parts, I will not altogether deny; that it is any the worse for that, I do most sturdily gainsay.... 
