 | Mary Milner - 1855 - 814 페이지
...well-known verses of a favourite poet of mine suggesting themselves to my recollection at the moment — " A sensible and well-bred man Will not affront me, and no other can," I merely said, " It is quite impossible, Mrs. Grundy, that you should affront either of us ;" and quitting... | |
 | William Cowper - 1856 - 464 페이지
...unnatural war, 4 Whatever Use may urge, or Honor plead, On Reason's verdict is a madman's deed. 190 Am I to set my life upon a throw, Because a bear is...well-bred man Will not affront me ; and no other can. Were I empower'd to regulate the lists, 195 They should encounter with well-loaded fists ! A Trojan... | |
 | William Cowper, Henry Stebbing - 1856 - 430 페이지
...Reason's verdict is a mauman's deed. Am I to set my life upon a throw, Because a bear is rude and surly 1 No — A moral, sensible, and well-bred man Will not affront me ; and no other can. Were I empower'd to regulate the lists, They should encounter with well-loaded fists ; A Trojan combat... | |
 | A. De Puy Van Buren - 1859 - 336 페이지
...inclined to be quarrelsome or insult any one ; and no gentleman could insult him. His maxim was : " A moral, sensible and well-bred man, Will not affront me ; and no other can." • ' This is the end of Jo's narrative. Colonel Me Clung was twice the candidate of his party for... | |
 | William Cowper - 1860 - 506 페이지
...flames of rage and hate, Or send another shivering to the bar With all the guilt of such unnatural war, Whatever use may urge or honour plead, On reason's...well-bred man Will not affront me ; and no other can. Were I empowered to regulate the lists, They should encounter with well-loaded fists ; A Trojan combat... | |
 | William Cowper - 1863 - 540 페이지
...flames of rage and hate, Or send another shivering to the bar With all the guilt of such unnatural war. Whatever use may urge or honour plead, On reason's...well-bred man Will not affront me, and no other can. Were I empower'd to regulate the lists, They should encounter with well-loaded fists : A Trojan combat... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1863 - 780 페이지
...the restraint which the duel with pistols used to put upon angry colloquialists, the poet asks — " Am I to set my life upon a throw, Because a bear is...well-bred man Will not affront me ; and no other can." The next sketch is that of the tedious spinner of " long yarns," who " echoes conversations, dull and... | |
 | William Cowper - 1864 - 454 페이지
...flames of rage and hate, Or send another shivering to the bar With all the guilt of such unnatural war, Whatever use may urge, or honour plead, On reason's...well-bred man Will not affront me, and no other can. Were I empower'd to regulate the lists, They shouid encounter with well loaded fists ; A Trojan combat... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 페이지
...fools should sneer. At least, to trample on our Maker's laws, And hazard life for any or no cause, Whatever Use may urge, or Honour plead, On reason's...well-bred man Will not affront me ; and no other can. Were I empower'd to regulate the lists, They should encounter with well-loaded fists : A Trojan combat... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - 1865 - 558 페이지
...discussion 1 shall act upon the principle laid down in Cowper's " Conversation," \yhere he says, — " A moral, sensible, and well-bred man Will not affront me; and no other can." But there are men who talk about cowardice, cowards, courage, and all that kind of thing ; and in this... | |
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Am I to set my life upon a throw, Because a bear is rude and surly ? No — A moral, sensible and well-bred man Will not affront me ; and no other can. 
