 | Henry James Jennings - 1881 - 214 pages
...us take what we get and be thankful. What right have we poor devils to be nice? We are well off to have got so much from a man of this Lord's station,...honest Sancho, bid God bless the giver, nor look the gift-horse in the mouth." This criticism, as Sir Egerton Brydges observes, " touched Lord Byron in... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1881 - 610 pages
...get and be thankful. What right have we poor devils to be niee ? We are well off to have got so mueh from a man of this lord's station, who does not live...Again, we say. let us be thankful ; and, with honest Sanehe, bid Ciod bless the giver, nor look the gift-boreo in the mouth.* * Byron nay*. " When t first... | |
 | Andrew Bisset - 1882 - 208 pages
...said for the writer, whoever he was, of the words in the ' Edinburgh Review,' ' We are well off to have got so much from a man of this lord's station,...in a garret, but has the sway of Newstead Abbey,' that even Walter Scott, when alluding to the attack on him in 'English Bards and Scotch Reviewers,'... | |
 | Andrew Bisset - 1882 - 212 pages
...said for the writer, whoever he was, of the words in the ' Ediuburgh Review,' ' We are well off to have got so much from a man of this lord's station,...in a garret, but has the sway of Newstead Abbey,' that even Walter Scott, when alluding to the attack on him in 'English Bards and Scotch Reviewers,'... | |
 | Sir Hall Caine - 1883 - 302 pages
...us take what we get and be thankful. What right have we poor devils to be nice ? We are well off to have got so much from a man of this lord's station,...the giver, nor look the gift horse in the mouth.' Mr. JC Jeaffreson's theory (' The Real Lord Byron ') that though the blow dealt at Byron in this article... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1885 - 288 pages
...us take what we get, and be thankful. What right have we poor devils to be nice? We are well off to have got so much from a man of this lord's station,...honest Sancho, bid God bless the giver( nor look the gift-horse in the mouth.* • It is authoritatively stated by his biographer, that Jeffrey— the Editor—... | |
 | William Minto - 1894 - 438 pages
...us take what we get, and be thankful. What right have we poor devils to be nice ? We are well off to have got so much from a man of this lord's station...who does not live in a garret, but has the sway of Newsteid Abbey. Again, we say, let us be thankful, and, with honest Sancho, bid God bless the giver,... | |
 | William Minto - 1894 - 434 pages
...us take what we get, and be thankful. What right have we poor devils to be nice ? We are well off to have got so much from a man of this lord's station...who does not live in a garret, but has the sway of Newsteid Abbey. Again, we say, let us be thankful, and, with honest Sancho, bid God bless the giver,... | |
 | William Minto - 1894 - 440 pages
...us take what we get, and be thankful. What right have we poor devils to be nice ? We are well off to have got so much from a man of this lord's station ; who does not " ENGLISH BAUDS AND SCOTCH REVIEWERS " 267 live in a garret, but has the sway of Newsteid Abbey. Again,... | |
 | William Minto - 1895 - 440 pages
...us take what we get, and be thankful. What right have we poor devils to be nice ? We are well off to have got so much from a man of this lord's station ; who does not live iii a garret, but has the sway of Newsteid Abbey. Again, we say, let us be thankful, and, with honest... | |
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... that he should again condescend to become an author. Therefore, let us take what we get, and be thankful. What right have we poor devils to be nice ? We are well off to have got so much from a man of this lord's station, who does not live in a garret,... 
