Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine, that those who make the... The Southern literary messenger - Page 2761849Full view - About this book
| Massachusetts - 1902 - 1258 pages
...chink, while thousands of great cattle repose beneath the shadow of the British oak chewing the rud , and are silent ; pray do not imagine that those who...the noise are the only inhabitants of the field." The noisy occupants of the field need not trouble us this afternoon. In a general order, having for... | |
| Ernest Bruce Iwan-Müller - South Africa - 1902 - 800 pages
...ago, ' while many great cattle repose under the shadow of the trees, chew the cud, and are sileni, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field." And later on, in the same volume, speaking of the overthrow of Lord Beaconsfield's Government in 1880,... | |
| Thomas Addis Emmet - Ireland - 1903 - 380 pages
...under a fern,' says Burke,1 ' make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of cattle, reposing beneath the shadow of the British...and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who ' Burke's Works, vol. iv. , p. 220. make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that of course... | |
| Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1904 - 524 pages
...a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those CHAP. in. THE REVOLUTION. 143 who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field ; that of course,... | |
| 1906 - 926 pages
...grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink. while thousands of great cattle chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that...make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field — or that after all they are other than the little, shrinkled, meagre, hopping, though bad and troublesome... | |
| Edmund Burke - Aesthetics - 1909 - 498 pages
...fern make the field ring with I their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, /reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the /...they are many in number; or that, after all, they I are other than the little, shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though \ loud aníLtcoublesome, insects of... | |
| De Alva Standwood Alexander - New York (State) - 1909 - 592 pages
...grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whlle thousands of great cattle beneath the shadow of the British oak chew the cud and are sllent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field, that... | |
| John Holland Rose - Great Britain - 1912 - 362 pages
...under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, while thousands of great cattle reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud...the noise are the only inhabitants of the field." 2 Probably, too, Pitt deemed it beneath his dignity to imitate the homely words with which Burke sometimes... | |
| Keith Feiling - Great Britain - 1913 - 180 pages
...under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, while thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud...the noise are the only inhabitants of the field." — Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France. chant of praise still vibrate, though long since... | |
| Rudyard Kipling - 1913 - 242 pages
...under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink while thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that tlioie who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field — tlmt, of course, they are many... | |
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