| 1905 - 606 pages
...the aspect of wilful imposture. I have seen and heard ' much of cockney impudence before now : but never expected ' to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred...flinging a ' pot of paint in the public's face.' Whistler waited a year after this, and then had his action for damages, finding that his sales had suffered... | |
| Literature - 1921 - 864 pages
...approached the aspect of wilful imposture. I have seen and heard much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas...for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face. Time has shown that from the shopkeeper's point of view Sir Coutts Lindsay knew more about his business... | |
| Henry Hallam - Europe - 1877 - 434 pages
...the aspect of wilful imposture. I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now ; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas...for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face. Among the minor works carefully and honourably finished in this gallery, M. Heilbuth's are far the... | |
| History - 1879 - 740 pages
...approached the aspect of wilful imposture. I have seen and heard much of cockney impudence before now, but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas...for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face." The defendant said the alleged libel was privileged, as being a fair and bondfidf criticism upon a... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1879 - 720 pages
...approached the aspect of wilful imposture. I have seen and heard much of cockney impudence before now, but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas...for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face." The defendant said the alleged libel was privileged, as being a fair and bond fide criticism upon a... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1879 - 766 pages
...approached the aspect of wilful imposture. I have seen and heard much of cockney impudence before now, but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas...for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face." The defendant said the alleged libel was privileged, as being a fair and bond fide criticism upon a... | |
| Henry James Jennings - Criticism - 1881 - 214 pages
...approached the aspect of wilful imposture. I have seen and heard much of Cockney impudence before now, but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas...for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face." The high authority of the writer gave to this severe condemnation a special importance, and very likely... | |
| Alfred Sidgwick - Logic - 1884 - 420 pages
...latter cause, was presented in a recent trial.* " It was complained," said counsel, " he had written ' I never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred...for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face,' but .... what is a ' coxcomb ' ? / have looked out for the word and find that it comes from the old... | |
| Samuel Merrill - Libel and slander - 1888 - 316 pages
...approached the aspect of wilful imposture. I have seen and heard much of cockney impudence before now, but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas...for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face. The famous " Cardiff Giant " was once involved in a libel suit, though not as an unlucky defendant... | |
| 1888 - 386 pages
...of Mr. Whistler's pictures, that he had " seen and heard much of cockney impudence before now, but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public face." Then was held the famous strife, Then the Phrygian brought his lute, And Apollo brought... | |
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