 | George Lansing Raymond, Post Wheeler - English language - 1911 - 236 pages
...added eodem flatu, ' Yes; how very PKETTY! ' " The same result may follow upon undue brevity ; eg, " A little dinner not more than the Muses, with all...pretty, offers human life and human nature under very favorable circumstances." — Benj. Disraeli. This is inadequate, because the meaning would be a puzzle... | |
 | Ulrich Christoph Janiesch - Political fiction, English - 1975 - 316 pages
...Prinzessinnen Colonna sowie der Herren Rigby, Gay und Ormsby stellt er das ironische Overstatement voran: "A little dinner, not more than the Muses, with all...human nature under very favourable circumstances" (I 6). Von Klugheit kann bei Rigby wohl kaum die Rede sein, und zwei Kapitel zuvor hatte es von der... | |
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A LITTLE dinner, not more than the Muses, with all the guests clever, and some pretty, offers human life and human nature under very favourable circumstances. 
