 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 էջ
...affront me, and no other can. Coseper, Conversation. It has a strange, quick jar upon the ear, This cocking of a pistol, when you know A moment more will...to bear Upon your person, twelve yards off or so. Byron, DJ iv. 41_ DUNCE. How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, Excels a dunce that has been... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1881 - 426 էջ
...quietly to couk. It has a strange quick jar ii]>on the ear, Th;tt cocking of a pistol, when лиц know A moment more will bring the sight to bear Upon your person, twelve yards off, or so; Л gentlemanly distance, not too near, If you have got a former friend for foe; But after being fired... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 էջ
...Conversation. Line 179. It has a strange, quick jar upon the ear, This cocking of a pistol, when you kuow A moment more will bring the sight to bear Upon your person, twelve yards off or so. 1321 Byron: Don Juan. Canto iv. St. 41. DUNCE. How much a dunce, that has been sent to roam, Excels... | |
 | 1891 - 624 էջ
...idiot could understand, for, as Mr. Glynn remarked to their worships — It has a sharp, strange sound upon the ear, That cocking of a pistol, when you know A moment more will bring the sielit to bear Upon your body twelve yards off or so, A gentlemanly distance, not too near, At which... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1889 - 604 էջ
...should be fifteen paces, and that the barrels should not be rifled. Byron refers to twelve yards — ' It has a strange quick jar upon the ear, That cocking...too near, If you have got a former friend for foe :' * Spencer Walpole, 'History of England,' vol. iv. p. 106. t Sec note in ' Crokcr's Boewell,' p.... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1891 - 752 էջ
...as if to see 'Twas fresh — for he had lately used the lock — And next proceeded quietly to cock. re's edge before a slave ! Infest his dwelling — but I f you have got a former friend for foe ; Rut after being fired at once or twice, The ear becomes... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1892 - 488 էջ
...mechanical. Tims it is doubly dreaded. It is less horrible to be killed by a man than by a machine. " It has a strange quick jar upon the ear, That cocking...to bear Upon your person, twelve yards off, or so." Hotspur's popinjay was rightly frightened at " vile guns." As the improvement of lethal weapons progresses,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1892 - 288 էջ
...mechanical. Thus it is doubly dreaded. It is less horrible to be killed by a man than by a machine. 'It bas a strange quick jar upon the ear, That cocking of...to bear Upon your person, twelve yards off, or so.' Hotspur's popinjay was rightly frightened at ' vile guns.' As the improvement of lethal weapons progresses,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1892 - 376 էջ
...horrible to be killed by a man than by a machine. " It has a strange quick jar upon the ear, That cooking of a pistol, when you know A moment more will bring...to bear Upon your person, twelve yards off, or so." Hotspur's popinjay was rightly frightened at " vile guns." As the improvement of lethal weapons progresses,... | |
 | Sir William Fraser - 1893 - 342 էջ
...June are well acquainted with. Previous to the discharge Dupre quoted the stanza from ' Don Juan,' ' It has a strange, quick, jar upon the ear, That cocking...bear Upon your person ; twelve yards off, or so.' • Shots were exchanged. Dupre, who was extremely short-sighted, placing his glass in his right eye,... | |
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It has a strange quick jar upon the ear, That cocking of a pistol, when you know A moment more will bring the sight to bear Upon your person, twelve yards off, or so ; A gentlemanly distance, not too near, If you have got a former friend for foe { But... 
