 | Emma Jane Worboise - 1856 - 370 pages
...before she slept ; and Georgina and Charlotte whispered occasionally till quite late. CHAPTER V. " Oh ! what a tangled web we weave, "When first we practise to deceive." SCOTT'S MARHIOX. ALAS, for Grace's wise determination to make up all deficiencies by early rising !... | |
 | Emma Dorothy E. Nevitte Southworth - 1856 - 496 pages
...dinner, Gusty hastened to his own ship, and retired to read his letter. CHAPTER XLII. THE LETTER. " Oh, what a tangled web we weave When first we practise to deceive." SCOTT. STY found himself in his own "caboose," and opened the er. Its contents were as follows : From... | |
 | Walter Scott - Poetry, English - 1857 - 364 pages
...Master of Angus. Yet Clare's sharp questions must I shun ; Must separate Constance from the Nun — Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive ! — A Palmer too ! — no wonder why I felt rebuked beneath his eye : I might have known there was... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Aesthetics - 1859 - 504 pages
...or exclamations arising out of their plot, and therefore sincerely uttered ; as that of Marmion : " Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive !" But the reflections which are founded, not on events, but on scenes, are, for the most part, shallow,... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Aesthetics - 1859 - 496 pages
...or exclamations arising out of their plot, and therefore sincerely uttered ; as that of Marmion : " Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive !" But the reflections which are founded, not on events, but on scenes, are, for the most part, shallow,... | |
 | Frances Elizabeth Georgiana Baynes Brock - 1859 - 352 pages
...yet she had no means of proving to Dora and every one else, how utterly false it was. CHAPTEK VII. " Oh, what A tangled web we weave When first we practise to deceive." HANNAH MOEE. A FORTNIGHT had not passed when the servant entered the room one day with a note and a... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1873 - 586 pages
...publican, and on the impulse of the moment determined to allow the other to remain in his mistake : " Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive !" " Yes," he replied, " he's a fair goer — a very fair goer." " I don't think he's quite the equal... | |
 | Goold Brown - English language - 1860 - 354 pages
...What-ho ! thou genius of the clime, what-ho ! Liest thou asleep beneath these hills of snow ? — Dryden. Oh ! what a tangled web we weave, 'When first we practise to deceive ! — Scott. Here he had need All circumspection ; and we now, no less, Choice in our suffrage ; for... | |
 | Miriam Coles Harris - 1860 - 514 pages
...history of that night belongs to fact, and how much to fancy, it is beyond me to decide. CHAPTER XI. " Oh ! what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive !" SCOTT. i:i \; :,!,'>.[ \ i , from this sea of dreams tumultuous, I seemed, on a certain cold, grey... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1914 - 872 pages
...collector and the words ' I never read such stuff ' broke into my thoughts and reminded me of the lines : ' Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive.' The collector had thought to deceive the sub-deputy, and this tangled web of foolscap was the result.... | |
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Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive! 
