 | Thomas Moore - 1825 - 462 pages
...The plain state of the matter is this—1 am an extravagant young fellow -who want money to borrow ; you I take to be a prudent old fellow, who have got money to lend." When this is compared with the form in which the same thought is put at present, it will he perceived... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1825 - 568 pages
...example, he has been tempted by an antithesis into an inversion of phrase by no means idiomatic. " The plain state of the matter is this — I am an extravagant young fellow who want money to borrow ; you, I take to be a prudent old fellow who have got money to lend." 237 CHAP,... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1825 - 566 pages
...example, he has been tempted by an antithesis into an inversion of phrase by no means idiomatic. " The plain state of the matter is this — I am an extravagant young fellow who taunt money to borrow; you, I take to be a prudent old fellow who have got money to lend." 237 CHAP-... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1825 - 586 pages
...example, he has been tempted by an antithesis into an inversion of phrase by no means idiomatic. " The plain state of the matter is this — I am an extravagant young fellow wAo want money to borrow ; you, I take to be a prudent old fellow who have got money to lend." •... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1825 - 654 pages
...example, he has been tempted by an antithesis into an inversion of phrase by no means idiomatic. " The plain state of the matter is this — I am an extravagant young ft How -who -want money to borroie / you, I take to be a prudent old fellow who have got money to lend."... | |
 | 1826 - 362 pages
...have done. — Sir, my friend Moses is a very honest fellow, but a little slow at expression : he'll be an hour giving us our titles. Mr. Premium, the...matter is this : I am an extravagant young fellow, who want money to borrow — you I take to be a prudent old fellow, who has got money to lend I am blockhead... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1826 - 570 pages
...example, he has been tempted by an antithesis into an inversion of phrase by no means idiomatic. " The plain state of the matter is this— I am an extravagant young fellow who want money to borrow; you, I take to be a prudent old fellow who have got money to lend." In the Collection... | |
 | George Daniel - 1828 - 412 pages
...honest fellow, but a little slow at expression : he'll be an hour giving us our titles. Mr. Preminm, the plain state of the matter is this : i am an extravagant young fellow, who want money to borrow — you I take to be a prudent old fellow, who has got money to lend — I am... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan - 1835 - 228 pages
...have done. — Sir, my friend Moses is a very honest fellow , but a little slow at expression : he'll be an hour giving us our titles. Mr. Premium, the...matter is this I am an extravagant young fellow , who want money to borrow — you I take to be a prudent old fellow , who has got money to lend. — I am... | |
 | Thomas Moore - 1835 - 504 pages
...plain state of the matter is this — I am an extravagant young fellow who want money to borrow; yon I take to be a prudent old fellow, who have got money to lend." In the Collection of his Works this phrase is given differently — but without authority from any... | |
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I take to be a prudent old fellow, who has got money to lend. I am blockhead enough to give fifty per cent, sooner than not have it! and you, I presume, are rogue enough to take a hundred if you can get it. Now, sir, you see we are acquainted at once,... 
