 He was the mildest manner'd man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat ; With such true breeding of a gentleman, You never could divine his real thought ; No courtier could, and scarcely woman can Gird more deceit within a petticoat ; Pity he loved adventurous...  Tom Cringle's Log - Page 210by Michael Scott - 1833 - 384 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir Frank Athelstane Swettenham - 1895 - 334 pages
...Alions,' dit CandiJe, ' recommandons-nous a la Providence ' " VOLTAIRE MALAY SKETCHES THE REAL MALAY He was the mildest manner'd man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat BYRON, Don Juan TO begin to understand the Malay you must live in his country, speak his language,... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 pages
...L. 68. The man of wisdom is the man of years. j. YOUNG — Night Tfumghts. Night V. L. 775. MANNERS. S S [ S [ S S ] ] ] K k. BYBON— Don Juan. Canto III. St. 41. Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the... | |
 | John Vestal Hadley - 1898 - 272 pages
...friendship, commiserated our injuries, wished us success in our effort to escape, and in every way He was the mildest manner'd man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat. The very next morning he turned up again, this time with an officer, who exacted from us a parole not... | |
 | 1900 - 946 pages
...honest physician, than his description of "Old Lambro," the buccaneer. He was the mlldest-manner'd man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat; With such true breeding of a gentleman, You never could divine his real thought, etc. Throughout the pages of history, both sacred and profane, the Rosicrucian,... | |
 | W. V. Byars - 1901 - 616 pages
...and therefore action Is that which passes with least contradiction. — Byron : * DonJuan,* Canto xv. He was the mildest manner'd man That ever scuttled...such true breeding of a gentleman, You never could divine his real thought. — Byron : ' DonJuan,* Canto I'M. The devil can cite scripture for his purpose.... | |
 | William Vincent Byars - 1901 - 610 pages
...therefore fiction Is that which passes with least contradiction. — Byron : * Don Juan,* Canto xv. He was the mildest manner'd man That ever scuttled ship, or cut a throat I With such true breeding of a gentleman. You never could divine his real thought. — Byron ; * Don... | |
 | William Vincent Byars - 1901 - 614 pages
...therefore fiction Is that which passes with least contradiction. — Byron : ' Don Juan, * Canto *v. He was the mildest manner'd man That ever scuttled ship, or cut a thront ! With such true breeding of a gentleman. You never could divine his real thought. — Byron... | |
 | William Tuckwell - 1902 - 190 pages
...gentlest aspect and with softest speech ; while, like Byron's Lambro: " he was the mildest mannered man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat, With such true breeding of a gentleman, You never could divine his real thought," her sarcasms rang out with a resonant clearness that enforced and aggravated... | |
 | 1913 - 632 pages
...member of the League, Of such as I the poet wrote: "He is' the mildest mannered man That ever scuttled a ship or cut a throat With such true breeding of a gentleman You never could divine his real thought." Yo\i would think me henpecked to see my head, but not so; it is but sand... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 pages
...first passion woman loves her lover : In all the others, all she loves is love.1 Canto ti/. Stanza 3. He was the mildest manner'd man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat. stama 4i. The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece ! Where burning Sappho loved and sung. Eternal summer... | |
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