 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pages
...ooze of sneers. JW Lambert (b. 1917) British author, journalist, broadcaster of Malcolm Muggeridge Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe. Sadder than...blast, Is that portentous phrase, "I told you so." Lord Byron (1788-1824) English poet Snobbery Snobbery — the "pox Britannica." Anthony Sampson (b.... | |
 | Bob Phillips - 1993 - 372 pages
...other direction. Dietrich Bonhoeffer Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl songs or the midnight blast, Is that portentous phrase, "I told you so." Lord Byron p Footfalls echo in the memory 268 Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...for a lady, letters for a spy, And watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by! Smugness 1 Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than...blast, Is that portentous phrase, "I told you so," Uttered by friends, those prophets of the past. GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON, ÓTH BARON BYRON, (1788-1824)... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 404 pages
...leads - God knows where. 778 Don Juan A lady of a 'certain age', which means Certainly aged. 779 Don Juan Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe. Sadder...blast, Is that portentous phrase, 'I told you so.' 780 Don Juan Let us have Wine and Women, Mirth and Laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after. 781... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...leads - God knows where. 1967 Don yuan A lady of a 'certain age', which means Certainly aged. 1968 Don eaper whose name is Death, And, with his sickle keen,...a breath, And the flowers that grow between. 6507 1969 Don Juan 'T15 strange - but true; for truth is always Stranger than fiction. 1970 Don Juan Let... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 pages
.../ We promise, hope, believe - there breathes despair. Lord Byron, 1814, The Corsair, Sect. 15 46:11 Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, / Sadder...blast / Is that portentous phrase, 'I told you so'. Lord Byron, 1819-24, Donjuan, Canto 14, stanza 50 46:12 All present life is but an interjection, /... | |
 | 1842 - 782 pages
...A tale in every thing." In the 14th canto Byron says, — " Of all the horrid, hideous notes of war Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast, Is that portentous phrase ' I told you so,' Utter 'd by friends, those prophets of the past." Rousseau, in his " Em&e" had expressed the same thought... | |
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I told you so," Ulter'd by friends, those prophets of the past, Who, 'stead of saying what you now should do, Own they foresaw that you would fall at last, And solace your slight lapse 'gainst " bonos mores," With a long memorandum of old stories. 
