| Harold Brighouse - 1920 - 330 páginas
...practical purposes the business comes to an end. Well, you see my position." Stewart quoted Sheridan: " ' The Spanish Fleet thou canst not see, because it is not yet in sight.' And much the same applies to your position, my lad. Its postal address is the Womb of Time." " That... | |
| Henry Arthur Jones - 1921 - 304 páginas
...cold douche of common sense on the ecstatic Tilburina. He soberly addressed her: "Peace, daughter! The Spanish Fleet thou canst not see, Because it is not yet in sight." When I see you, my dear Wells, decking yourself in bridal anticipation of the millennium in phrases... | |
| Sir George Buchanan - 1923 - 294 páginas
...interrupted his daughter, who was descanting on all that she saw on the approaching Armada, by remarking : The Spanish fleet thou canst not see — because It is not yet in sight. In the same way I may reply that I did not announce the conclusion of an Anglo-Russian convention —... | |
| Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1744 páginas
...see — I see — what soon you'll see Gov. Hold, daughter! peace! this love hath turn'd thy brain: loud clangor Excites us to arms, With shrill notes of anger And mortal alar !" Dang. Egad, though, the governor seems to make no allowance for this poetical figure you talk of.... | |
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1926 - 376 páginas
...— I see — what soon you'll see Cm. . . Hold, daughter! peace! this love hath turn'd thy brain: The Spanish fleet thou canst not see — because — It is not yet in sight!" 316 [ACT ii Puff. No, a plain matter-of-fact man;character. that's his " Tilb. Gov. Tilb. Gov. Tilb.... | |
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1928 - 386 páginas
...The Critic, forgetting that the chief point of Mr. Puff's tragedy is made by those immortal lines : The Spanish Fleet thou canst not see — Because It is not yet in sight. The air was full of rumours of invasion, but no enemy fleet came. The combined fleet of France and... | |
| 1845 - 778 páginas
...more out of sight." How he must have disdained the plain matter-of-fact of Tilburina's father :— " The Spanish fleet thou canst not see, because It is not yet in sight."* But here is a name I want you to look at, » J. Coghlan, 1786." The inscriber was the proprietor of Ardo,... | |
| 1846 - 486 páginas
...of Tilbury fort to his daughter : — " Hold, daughter ! Peace ! This love hath turn'd thy brain ! The Spanish fleet thou canst not see — because It is not yet in sight." We have seemed to ourselves called dn to say thus much, on the score of literary justice. We certainly... | |
| Voltaire - 1901 - 642 páginas
...situation of our donkey forcibly calls to mind Sheridan's remark in the Critie, when he states that " The fleet thou canst not see, because it is not yet in sight." The Thyrsus is a lance or javelin, environed with branches of ivy and the vine, being one of the attributes... | |
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