| 1849 - 448 Seiten
...told him what magnificent things the old baronial customs were, and had put him up to reviving " all usages thoroughly worn out, The souls of them fumed forth, the hearts of them torn out." He was a very stiff suit of clothes indeed, and our friend, who had inherited a bluff, honest German... | |
| Henry Allon - 1847 - 586 Seiten
...the joy of his showing it, Nor for the pride's self, but the pride of our seeing it. He revived all usages thoroughly worn out, The souls of them fumed forth, the hearts of them torn-out: And chief in the chase his neck he perill'd; On a lathy horse, all legs and length, With... | |
| 1879 - 786 Seiten
...illusory date ' the good old times,' and would fain have galvanised them back to life. They revived all usages thoroughly worn out, The souls of them fumed forth the hearts of them torn out, and even got up a tournament. A few old fellows still remember it, with poor Theodore Hook'sjoke upon... | |
| James Payn - 1879 - 346 Seiten
...illusory date ' the good old times,' and would fain have galvanised them back to life. They revived all usages thoroughly worn out, The souls of them fumed forth, the hearts of them torn out, and even got up a tournament. A few old fellows still remember it, with poor Theodore Hook's joke upon... | |
| Browning Society (London, England) - 1881 - 610 Seiten
...the dangers of our age, its tendency to slavish imitation of by -gone times ; the Duke "revived all usages thoroughly worn out, The souls of them fumed forth, the hearts of them torn out." The love of vulgar display, the glaring pretence, the artificial expedients, the contemptible shams... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1884 - 708 Seiten
...youths, more fortunate than persons of a higher intellectual type who have striven in vain to revive old usages thoroughly worn out, The souls of them fumed forth, the hearts of them torn out, it is not now so difficult. Anyone who has gone by one of our ' summer coaches ' for a short trip out... | |
| James Payn - 1885 - 324 Seiten
...youths, more fortunate than persons of a higher intellectual type who have striven in vain to — Revive old usages thoroughly worn out, The souls of them fumed forth, the hearts of them torn out, it is not now so difficult. Any one who has gone by one of our ' summer coaches ' for a short trip... | |
| 1885 - 590 Seiten
...but to those who feel that their moral strength is being drained by compliance with : — "Usoge» worn out The souls of them fumed forth, the hearts of them torn out," let Emerson speak : — " So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When duty whispers... | |
| James Payn - 1894 - 206 Seiten
...many years before by the ' Young England ' party, and was once more dug up from its grave, like other Usages thoroughly worn out, The souls of them fumed forth, the hearts of them torn out. This was the turning the junior members of the family into table-waiters, to do more honour to the... | |
| Edward Berdoe - 1895 - 354 Seiten
...the joy of his showing it ; Kot for the pride's sake, bat the pride of our seeing it, He revived all usages thoroughly worn out, The souls of them fumed forth, the hearts of them torn out." A sly thrust one must feel is given here to mediaeval fashions revived only because they were the fashion... | |
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