 He always made the best pun, and the best remark in the course of the evening. His serious conversation, like his serious writing, is his best. No one ever stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen half-sentences as he does....  Celebrated Friendships - Сторінка 90автори: Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1861Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
 | Sir Thomas Noon Talfound - 1892 - 348 стор.
...No one ever stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half-a-dozen half sentences ; his jests scald like tears, and he probes a question with a play on words." Although Lamb's conversation vibrated between the intense and the grotesque, his writings are replete... | |
 | Benjamin Ellis Martin - 1894 - 250 стор.
...tone of the man's utterances concerning all matters; and to them we may apply Hazlitt's phrase : " His jests scald like tears, and he probes a question with a play upon words." Or, as Haydon put it, " He stuttered out his quaintness in snatches, like the fool in... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 560 стор.
...stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen half-sentences as he does. His jests scald like tears, and he probes a question with a play upon words. What a keen, laughing, hare-brained vein of home-felt truth I What choice venom ! How often... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 стор.
...stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen half-sentences as he does. His jests scald like tears, and he probes a question with a play upon words. What a keen, laughing, hare-brained vein of home-felt truth ! What choice venom 1 How often... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 434 стор.
...stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen half-sentences as he does. His jests scald like tears, and he probes a question with a play upon words. What a keen, laughing, hare-brained vein of home-felt truth ! What choice venom ! How often... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1902 - 570 стор.
...stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen half-sentences as he does. His jests scald like tears : and he probes a question with a play upon words. What a keen, laughing, hare-brained vein of home-felt truth ! What choice venom ! ' man,... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1902 - 268 стор.
...stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half-a-dozen half sentences as he does. His jests scald like tears, and he probes a question with a play upon words. What a keen, laughing, hair-brained vein of home-felt truth ! What choice venom ! How often... | |
 | 1905 - 408 стор.
...ever stammered out such fine piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen half-sentences as he does. His jests scald like tears ; and he probes a question with a play upon words. What a keen, laughing, hare-brained vein of home-felt truth ! What choice venom ! How often... | |
 | Edward Verrall Lucas - 1905 - 656 стор.
...stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen half sentences as he does. His jests scald like tears: and he probes a question with a play upon words. What a keen, laughing, hair-brained vein of home-felt truth! What choice venom! How often... | |
 | William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson - 1908 - 330 стор.
...ever stammered out such fine, piquant, deep, eloquent things in half a dozen halfsentences as he does. His jests scald like tears : and he probes a question with a play upon words. What a keen, laughing, hare-brained vein of home-felt truth ! What choice venom ! ' (especially... | |
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