| William Dowe - 1857 - 280 pages
...dreaded the terrors of your brow, sir (Sir Fletcher Norton, the Speaker) ; for he has attacked even you ; and I believe you have no reason to triumph in the encounter. Not content with carrying away our royal eagle in his pounces, and dashing him against a rock, he has... | |
| william harrison ainsworth - 1857 - 516 pages
...you—he has Lords, and Commons are but the sport of his fury!"—Fbrtiamentary debates, vol. xvii. —and I believe you have no reason to triumph in the encounter King, upon every public man; the Gentleman's Magazine opened its columns to suggestions and was filled... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1859 - 780 pages
...crouch beneath his rage. Nor has he dreaded the terror of your brow, sir ; he has attacked even you — he has — and I believe you have no reason to triumph...dashing him against a rock, he has laid you prostrate. Kings, Lords, and Commons, are but the. sport of his fury. Were he a member of this house, what might... | |
| David Hume - 1859 - 242 pages
...him rising still higher, and coming down souse upon both houses of parliament ; — not content with carrying away our royal eagle in his pounces, and...dashing him against a rock, he has laid you prostrate, and kings, lords, and commons, thus become but the sport of his fury." Soon after this Sergeant Glyun... | |
| Alexander Andrews - English newspapers - 1859 - 360 pages
...Nor" (to the Speaker) "has he dreaded the terrors of your brow, sir ; he has attacked even you — he has — and I believe you have no reason to triumph in the encounter. .... King, Lords, and Commons are but the sport of his fury ! " — Parliamentary Debates, vol. xvii.... | |
| John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1860 - 372 pages
...crouch beneath his rage. Nor has he dreaded the terror of your brow, Sir ; he has attacked even you — he has — and I believe you have no reason to triumph...of his fury. Were he a member of this house, what mi^ht not be expected from his knowledge, his firmness, and integrity ! He would be easily known by... | |
| George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1860 - 816 pages
...cronch, beneath his rage. Nor has he dreaded the terrors of your brow, sir ; he has attacked even you — he has — and I believe you have no reason to triumph...in his pounces, and dashing him against a rock, he hasliiid you prostrate. King, lords, and commons are but the sport of his fury." The earl of Mansfield... | |
| John Timbs - Biography - 1860 - 432 pages
...Speaker, Sir Fletcher Norton, remarkable for his large eyebrows) — for he has attacked even you, and I believe you have no reason to triumph in the encounter. Not content with carrying away our royal eagle in his pounces and dashing him against a rock, he has... | |
| Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1861 - 904 pages
...he dreaded the terrors of your brow, Sir; he has attacked even you, he has; and I believe you bare no reason to triumph in the encounter. In short, after...dashing him against a rock, he has laid you prostrate. Kings, lords, and commons, are but the sport of his fury." Who the author of these letters was, is... | |
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