 | Literature - 1917 - 882 pages
..."Is not that natural?" I replied. "You know the old adage about a cold hand and a warm heart." "It is all very well to dissemble your love. But why did you kick me downstairs?" Tree quoted gaily. "But of course I understand," he added with his genial smile. As a matter of fact,... | |
 | Hugh Gilzean Reid - English essays - 1871 - 352 pages
...wooer sets out on his adventurous mission. — May he never have to say with the hapless poet — " It was all very well to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs ?" At Lochend, all was mirth and happiness. A youthful company had been spending their... | |
 | 1910 - 728 pages
...here to dwell upon instances of the latter — cases such as that mentioned in the pleading lines : It was all very well to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs ? or the milder treatment which another bard resented : He shut the door with such a slam,... | |
 | William Edward Norris - 1877 - 314 pages
...have guessed that?' ' No ; not when you went on asseverating that you couldn't bear the sight of me. It was all very well to dissemble your love, but why did you give me that emphatic moral kicking down-stairs ? I never was so humiliated in all my life.' ' And... | |
 | 1882 - 276 pages
...condemnation of our Club life — even in play — was altogether wise. The words of the poet say, " It was all very well to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs ? " and I think that he might have chosen a less violent antidote for the malady he sought... | |
 | Sir Hall Caine - Criticism - 1883 - 302 pages
...with so much acrimony that he might have sung some contemporary euphemism to the familiar lines : ' It was all very well to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me downstairs ?' The review continues : ' His taste in description is as remarkably childish as his powers of execution... | |
 | Thomas Archer - Great Britain - 1883 - 736 pages
...the simple-hearted Athenian." In this criticism there is something to remind one of the lines — " It was all very well to dissemble your love, But why did you kick mo down stairs?" but apart from " the amenities," Macaulay's judgment on the work was sound, and was... | |
 | Charles Mackay - Poets, Scottish - 1887 - 484 pages
...'dissembling their love,' if I may parody the old saying, by kicking its object down-stairs. "Twas all very well to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down-stairs ? I, for one, am not a hypocrite in this respect, I love money, because it confers power, influence,... | |
 | Peter Rylands - 1890 - 420 pages
...disappointed with their allies on the Treasury bench, and that they are likely to say of them — " It is all very well to dissemble your love, But why did you kick us down stairs?" I hope the farmers, bearing in mind what is taking place, will revert to the course... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1892 - 1018 pages
...with remarkable ability their feelings of gratitude in 1888. I might say on behalf of that Bill — " It was all very well to dissemble your love, But — why did you kick me downstairs ? " You did your best and you failed. And how did hon. Members opposite treat the Bill of 1890? I have... | |
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It is all very well to dissemble your love. But why did you kick me downstairs? 
