 Is it a party in a parlour, Crammed just as they on earth were crammed, Some sipping punch — some sipping tea, But, as you by their faces see, All silent, and all damned ! Peter Bell, by W.  Boston Miscellany - Page 451842Full view - About this book
 | 1829 - 1008 pages
...they on earth were ion !) the rhyme in the next line cramm'd, •- - Some sipping punch, some drinking tea; But, as you by their faces see, All silent, and all — damn'd " ' I asked my Wordsworthian friend if he really and truly could admire this passage! "Admire... | |
 | 1819 - 544 pages
...sight, it is asked, Is it a party in a parlour? Crammed just as they on earth were crammed — Some sipping punch, some sipping tea, But as you by their faces see, - All silent and all damned! We suspect the conclusion is a pun on a water dam, but for the rest of the verse we again profess our... | |
 | 1819 - 792 pages
...from all hU brethren ? Is it a party in a parlour ? Cramm'd just as they on earth were cramm'd— Some sipping punch, some sipping tea, But, as you by their faces see, All silent and all damn'd 1 A throbbing pulse the Gazer hath — Puzzled he was, and now is daunted ; He looks, he cannot... | |
 | 1820 - 442 pages
...all his brethren ? Is it a party in a parlour? Cramm'd just as they on earth were cramm'd — Some sipping punch, some sipping tea, But, as you by their faces see, All silent and all damn'd ! No ; it is none of these. The fearful sight turns out to be no other than a drowned man, the... | |
 | 1904 - 738 pages
...Wordsworth after 1819 : " Is it a party in a parlour ? Cramm'd just as they on earth were cramm'd— Some sipping punch, some sipping tea, But, as you by their faces see, All silent and all damn'd! " This curious image was suggested to Wordsworth by Mrs. Basil Montagu, who related to him... | |
 | John Galt - 1830 - 340 pages
...a party in a parlour, Cramm'd, just as they on earth are cramm'd, Some sipping punch, some drinking tea ; But as you by their faces see, All silent, and all— damn'd ?" IT is not necessary to inform the patient reader, who has proceeded so far with me, that... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1852 - 688 pages
...1852. BY CRAVEN. " It is a party, in a parlour, Crammed, just as thc-y un earth were crammed: Some sipping punch, some sipping tea, But, as you by their faces see, All silent and all damned." WILLIAM WORDS WORTH, LATE POET LAUHEATH. " Nil actum reputaus, dum quid supercsset agendum." AN ANCIENT... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 426 pages
...a party in a parlour Cramm'd just as they on earth were cramm'd, Some sipping punch, some drinking tea; But, as you by their faces see, All silent, and all — darnn'd!" 1 asked my Wordsworthian friend if he really and truly could admire this passage ! "Admire... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1847 - 450 pages
...MICHING MALLECHO, ESQ. Is it a party in a parlour, Crammed just as they on earth were crammed, Some sipping punch — some sipping tea, But, as you by their faces see, All silent, and all damned ! Peter Bell, by W. WORDSWORTH. OPHELIA.— What means this, my lord ? HAMLET.— Marry, this is Miching... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1848 - 372 pages
...circle in a parlor," mentioned in Peter Bell : — " Crammed just as they on earth were crammed : Some sipping punch, some sipping tea, But, as you by their...so pitilessly in the wholesale condemnation of John Wilsen Croker's edition of Boswell's Johnson. The purity of the critical ermine, like that of the judicial,... | |
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