| Henry Allon - 1885 - 530 páginas
...absurdly supposed to indicate some settled policy of revenge, ' See whether I do not dust that varlet's jacket for him in the next number of the " Blue and Yellow. " If every one who has used a similar kind of phrase in the abandon of intimate friendship were to... | |
| 1892 - 678 páginas
...reviewer preluded to his essay on Crokerb edition of Boswell : " See whether I don't dust that varlet'i jacket for him in the next number of the Blue and Yellow. I detest him more than cold boiled veal " ? Some of us, indeed, may dream of a colourless impartiality attainable in a man's expression of... | |
| 1885 - 720 páginas
...scorn. After the book came out he wrote, " See whether I do not dust that varlet's jacket for him in the blue and yellow. I detest him more than cold boiled veal." He begins the review of the book with a cool " This work has greatly disappointed us ! " Indeed ! The... | |
| Sir George Otto Trevelyan (bart.) - 1876 - 430 páginas
...I had risen again he hoped that they should hear me often. See whether I do not dust that varlet's jacket for him in the next number of the Blue and Yellow.* I detest him more than cold boiled veal. After the debate I walked about the streets with Bulwer till nearly three o'clock. I spoke to him about... | |
| George Otto Trevelyan - 1876 - 652 páginas
...I had risen again he hoped that they should hear me often. See whether I do not dust that varlet's jacket for him in the next number of the Blue and Yellow.* I detest him more than cold boiled veal. After the debate I walked about the streets with Bulwer till near three o'clock. I spoke to him about... | |
| 1876 - 618 páginas
...that I had risen again he hoped that they should hear me often. See whether I do not dust that varlefs jacket for him in the next number of the Blue and Yellow. I detest him more than cold boiled veal. What will be thought of this avowal of the purpose to ' take revenge ' (as Mr. Trevelyan says in another... | |
| Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1878 - 570 páginas
...I had risen again he hoped that they should hear me often. See whether I do not dust that varlet's jacket for him in the next number of the blue and...yellow. I detest him more than cold boiled veal." In a letter to his sister Hannah he described a first visit to Holland House, where he became a favourite... | |
| George Otto Trevelyan - 1878 - 508 páginas
...I had risen again he hoped that they should hear me often. See whether I do not dust that Varlet's jacket for him in the next number of the Blue and Yellow. I detest him more than cold boiled veal.1 After the debate I walked about the streets with Bulwer till near three o'clock. I spoke to... | |
| Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer.) - 1879 - 236 páginas
...I had risen again he hoped that they should hear me often. See whether I do not dust that varlet's jacket for him in the next number of the blue and...yellow. I detest him more than cold boiled veal.' In a letter to his sister Hannah he described a first visit to Holland House, where he became a favourite... | |
| Percy Fitzgerald - 1880 - 354 páginas
...that I had risen again he hoped that they should hear me often. See whether I do not dust that varlcfs jacket for him in the next number of the Blue and Yellow. I detest him more than cold bolled veal." He was, moreover, "a bad, a very bad man : a scandal to politics and letters." He had... | |
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