 | 1828
...frowning fled, Curs'd the fair maid, and shook his angry head. ] ,sv, '.' the boots and label. (readt.J " Who dares this pair of boots displace, " Must meet Bombastes face to face." Ha ! dost thou dare me ? vile, obnoxious elf, I'll make thy boast as bootless as thyself. I Knockt... | |
 | William Barnes Rhodes - 1828 - 18 стор.
...he frowning fled, Curs'd the fair maid, and shook his angry head. [Perceives the boots and label. " Who dares this pair of boots displace, " Must meet Bombastes face to face." Ha ! dost thou dare me, vile obnoxious elf; I'll make thy threats as bootless as thyself; Where-er... | |
 | North Ludlow Beamish - 1829
...Athens will not easily forget the noble, dauntless manner in which he gave that fine passage— •• Who dares this pair of boots displace, Must meet Bombastes face to face. and then prostrating himself at the feet of his mistress. Ludlow also played (or, as an ill-natured... | |
 | North Ludlow Beamish - 1829
...southern Athens will not easily forget the noble, dauntless manner in which he gave that fine passage — Who dares this pair of boots displace, Must meet Bombastes face to facet and then prostrating himself at the feet of his mistress, sunk the matchless heroism of the soldier... | |
 | GEORGE AND ROBERT CRUIKSHANK - 1838
...he frowning fled, Curs'd the fair maid, and shook his angry head. [Perceives the boots and label. *' Who dares this pair of boots displace, " Must meet Bombastes face to face." Ha! dost thou dare me, vile obnoxious elf; I'll make thy threats as bootless as thyself: Where'er thou... | |
 | Joseph Thomas - 1838
...he frowning fled, Curs'd the fair maid, and shook his angry head. [Perceives the boots and label. " Who dares this pair of boots displace, " Must meet Bombastes face to face." Ha! dost thou dare me, vile obnoxious elf; I'll make thy threats as bootless as thyself : Where'er... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1861
...challenging the whole human race by hanging a pair of jack boots on a tree, and writing on them— Who dares this pair of boots displace, Must meet Bombastes face to face. In Bombastes Furioso, we have burlesque clothed in its proper dress, not in the toga of a didactic... | |
 | William Barnes Rhodes - 1873
...he frowning fled, Cursed the fair maid, and shook his angry head. [Perceives the boots and label. " Who dares this pair of boots displace, " Must meet Bombastes face to face." Ha ! dost thou dare me, vile obnoxious elf; I'll make thy threats as bootless as thyself: Where'er... | |
 | Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1877
...Penny Patriot in extreme disgust. FELLOW FEELIWG.— MR. PARNELL " pitying the poor Boers." CON s^ BENJAMIN BOMBASTES. "WHO DARES THIS PAIR OF BOOTS...DISPLACE, MUST MEET BOMBASTES FACE TO FACE!— THUS DO .1 CHALLENGE ALL THE HUMAN RACEf" "NOT PROVEN." Presbyterian Minister. " DOS'T YOU KNOW IT 's WICKED... | |
 | Lord William Pitt Lennox - 1877
...above mad trick had been practised, " Bombastes Furioso" wasacted, and when the General exclaimed : " Who dares this pair of boots displace Must meet Bombastes face to face." There was a shout throughout the house, which was not a little increased when the King replies : —... | |
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Must meet Bombastes face to face." Thus do I challenge all the human race. 
