 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1829 - 274 pages
...The stonework," said Teithrin, " is sapped and mined: the piles are rotten, broken, and dislocated : the floodgates and sluices are leaky and creaky." " That is the beauty of it," said Seithenyn. " Soaie parts of it are rotten, and some parts of it are sound." "It is well," said Elphin, "that some... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - English literature - 1875 - 488 pages
...The stonework," said Teithrin, " is sapped and mined : the piles are rotten, broken, and dislocated : the floodgates and sluices are leaky and creaky."...and some parts of it are sound." " It is well," said ElpMn, " that some parts are sound : it were better that all were so." " So I have heard some people... | |
 | Literature - 1875 - 1012 pages
...stone-work,' said Teithrin, ' is sapped and ruined ; the piles are rotten, broken, and dislocated ; the floodgates and sluices are leaky and creaky.'...Seithenyn, 'some parts of it are rotten, and some parts are sound.' " ' So I have heard some people say before,' said Seithenyn, ' perverse people, blind to... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1875 - 498 pages
...it in their wisdom ; and, if we should bo so rash as to try to mend it, we should only mar it." '. That is the beauty of it," said Seithenyn. " Some...and some parts of it are sound." " It is well," said Elphm, " that some parU are iound : it were better that all were so." " So I have heard some people... | |
 | George Saintsbury - English language - 1885 - 432 pages
...The stonework," said Teithrin, " is sapped and mined : the piles are rotten, broken, and dislocated : the floodgates and sluices are leaky and creaky."...perverse people, blind to venerable antiquity : that very unnmiable sort of people, who are in the habit of indulging their reason. But I say, the parts that... | |
 | George Saintsbury - English language - 1885 - 426 pages
...The stonework," said Teithrin, " is sapped and mined : the piles are rotten, broken, and dislocated : the floodgates and sluices are leaky and creaky." "That is the beauty of it," said Seithenyn. " Some pans of it are rotten, and some parts of it are sound." " It is well," said Elphin, " that some parts... | |
 | Sir Mungo William MacCallum - Arthurian romances - 1894 - 462 pages
...The stonework,' said Teithrin, ' is sapped and mined : the piles are rotten, broken, and dislocated : the floodgates and sluices are leaky and creaky.'...parts are sound : it were better that all were so.' 1 Misfortunes of Elphin, Chapter xiv. 2 Ibid. Chapter ii. " ' So I have heard some people say before,1... | |
 | Helena Maria Swanwick - Feminism - 1913 - 242 pages
...The stonework," said Teithrin, " is sapped and mined : the piles are rotten, broken and dislocated : the floodgates and sluices are leaky and creaky."...sound." " It is well," said Elphin, " that some parts arc sound : it were better that all were so." " So I have heard some people say before," said Seithenyn... | |
 | Thomas Love Peacock - 1924 - 408 pages
...The stonework," said Teithrin, " is sapped and mined : the piles are rotten, broken, and dislocated : the floodgates and sluices are leaky and creaky."...of it are rotten, and some parts of it are sound." 15 " It is well," said Elphin, " that some parts are sound : it were better that all were so." " So... | |
 | English Association - English literature - 1926 - 138 pages
...The stonework,' said Teithrin, ' is sapped and mined : the piles are rotten, broken, and dislocated : the floodgates and sluices are leaky and creaky.'...sound.' ' It is well,' said Elphin, ' that some parts of it are sound : it were better that all were so.' and the stiffness is balanced by the elasticity.... | |
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That is the beauty of it," said Seithenyn. " Some parts of it are rotten, and some parts of it are sound." " It is well," said Elphin, " that some parts are sound : it were better that all were so. 
