 | 1858 - 620 Seiten
...Providence has made him a light-jesting paragraph-writing man, and that he will remain to his dying day. ' When he is jocular, he is strong ; when he is serious, he is like Samson in a wig : any ordinary person is a match for him ; a song, an ironical letter, a burlesque ode, an attack in... | |
 | 1829 - 476 Seiten
...Providence has made him a light, jesting, paragraph-writing man, and that he will remain to his dying day. When he is jocular he is strong, when he is serious he is like Sampson in a wig; any ordinary person is a match for him ; a song, an ironical letter, a burlesque... | |
 | John Timbs - 1840 - 430 Seiten
...from the love of glory, but from the love of utility, as a burgomaster hunts a rat in a Dutch dike, for fear it should flood a province. When he is jocular he is strong; when he is serious, he ii like Samson in a wig. Call him a legislator, a reasoner, and the conductor of the affairs of a great... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1844 - 388 Seiten
...therefore fit for serious parts ? paragraph-writing man, and that he will remain to his dying day. When he is jocular he is strong, when he is serious he is like Sampson in a wig; any ordinary person is a match for him ; a song, an ironical letter, a burlesque... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1845 - 496 Seiten
...Providence lias made him a light, jesting, paragraph-writing man, and that he will remain to his dying day. When he is jocular he is strong, when he is serious he is like Sampson in a wig : any ordinary person is a match for him : a song, an ironical letter, a burlesque... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1848 - 522 Seiten
...has made him a light, jesting, paragraph-writing man, and that he will remain to his dying day. AVhen he is jocular he is strong, when he is serious he is likg_SainPSon in ajyig : any ordinary person is a match lor him : a song, an ironical letter, a burlesque... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1850 - 196 Seiten
...a bundle of stationers' quills. — Hood. SYDNEY SMITH ON CANNING. When Mr. Canning is jocular lie is strong; when he is serious he is like Samson in a wig ; any ordinary person is a match for him ; a song, an ironical letter, a burlesque ode, a smart speech... | |
 | 1850 - 216 Seiten
...do I attack him from the love of glory, but from the love of utility, as a burgomaster hunts a rat in a Dutch dyke, for fear it should flood a province....jocular, he is strong ; when he is serious he is like Sampson in a wig. Call him a legislator, a reasoner, and the conductor of the affairs of a great nation,... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1852 - 246 Seiten
...Providence has made him a light, jesting, paragraph-writing man, and that he will remain to his dying day. When he is jocular he is strong, when he is serious he is like Sampson in a wig : any » The attack upon virtue and morals in the debate upon Copenhagen is brought... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1853 - 252 Seiten
...triumphantly, with a bundle of stationers' quills. — Hood. SYDNEY SMITH ON CANNING. When Mr. Canning is jocular he is strong ; when he is serious he is like Samson in a wig ; any ordinary person is a match for him ; a song, an ironical letter, a burlesque ode, a smart speech... | |
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When he is jocular he is strong, when he is serious he is like Samson in a wig; any ordinary person is a match for him; a song, an ironical letter, a burlesque ode, an attack in... 
