 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Great Britain - 1852 - 198 pages
...curses and encouragement, yelling and harking his bloody war-dogs on, and himself always at the first of the hunt. Our Duke was as calm at the mouth of...have been the great man he was, had he had a heart rither for love or hatred, or pity or fear, or re- ' gret or remorse. He achieved the highest deed... | |
 | Ireland - 1852 - 892 pages
...curses and encouragement, yelling and harking his bloodr wardogs on, and himself always at the first of the hunt. Our duke was as calm at the mouth of...Perhaps he could not have been the great man he was, bad he had a heart either for love or hatred, or pity or fear, or resret, or remorse. He achieved the... | |
 | 1853 - 796 pages
...yelling and lashing his bloody war-dogs on, and himself always at the front of the hunt. Our duke wan «s calm at the mouth of the cannon as at the door of a drawing-room. Perhaps be could not have been the great man he was, Iwd he had a heart either for love, or hatred, or pity,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Great Britain - 1858 - 492 pages
...the hunt. Our Duke was as calm at th» 4Mfeth of the cannon as at the'door of a drawing-room. Perhaja he could not have been the great man he was, had he had a heart either for love or hatred, or pitj or fear, or regret or re» morse. He achieved the highest deed of daring, or deepest calculation... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 458 pages
...curses and encouragement, yelling and harking his bloody war-dogs on, and himself always at the first of the hunt. Our Duke was as calm at the mouth of...have been the great man he was, had he had a heart cither for love or hatred, or pity or fear, or regret or remorse. He achieved the highest deed of daring,... | |
 | Joel Dorman Steele, Esther Baker Steele - History - 1883 - 704 pages
...he paid a compliment or spoke about the weather. Our duke was as calm at the mouth of the cannon aa at the door of a drawing-room. Perhaps he could not have been the great man ho was, had he had a heart either for love or hatred, or pity or fear, or regret or remorse. . . .... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1884 - 898 pages
...curses and encouragement, yelling and harking his bloody war-dogs on, and himself always at the first of the hunt. Our Duke was as calm at the mouth of...Perhaps he could not have been the great man he was, had lie had a heart either for love or hatred, or pity or fear, or regret or remorse. He achieved the highest... | |
 | Advertising - 1917 - 1686 pages
...always available to give point and interest. Here is a simple example. Thackeray wrote of Marlborough : "Our Duke was as calm at the mouth of the cannon as at the door of a drawing-room." The unimaginative copy-writer would have thought of nothing better than "Marlborough was calm at the... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1891 - 462 pages
...curses and encouragement, yelling and harking his bloody wardogs on, and himself always at the first of the hunt. Our Duke was as calm at the mouth of...at the door of a drawing-room. Perhaps he could not -linvn been the great man he was, had he had a heart either for love or hatred, or pity or fear, or... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 630 pages
...curses and encouragement, yelling and harking his bloody war-dogs on, and himself always at the first of the hunt. Our duke was as calm at the mouth of a cannon as at the door of a drawing-room. Perhaps he could not have been the great man he was had... | |
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Perhaps he could not have been the great man he was, had lie had a heart either for love or hatred, or pity or fear, or regret or remorse. He achieved the highest deed of daring, or deepest calculation of thought, a"s he performed the very meanest action... 
