 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - 926 pages
...ungentle spirit learn from hence, A small nnkindness is a great offence. d. HANNAH HOHE— Sensibility. The hint malevolent, the look oblique, The obvious...And all the cruel language of the eye; The artful enquiry, whose venomed dart Scarce wounds the hearing while it stabs the heart; The guarded phrase,... | |
 | Charles Neil - 1882 - 1052 pages
...Slander and Flattery." The various modes of slander are well put in verse bj Hannah More : — The heart malevolent, the look oblique, The obvious satire,...cruel language of the eye ; The artful injury, whose venomed dart Scarce wounds the hearing while it stabs the heart ; The guarded phrase whose meaning... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - 1882 - 914 pages
...equivocal, the harsh reply, And all the cruel language of the eye; The artful enquiry, whose venomed ine 215. Oh ! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray...can own a sister's charms, and hear Sighs for a dau ; These, and a thousand griefs minute as these, Corrode our comfort and destroy our ease, c. HANNAH... | |
 | Christian ethics - 1883 - 296 pages
...speeches by it.' A man resents with more bitterness a satire upon his abilities than his practice. The hint malevolent, the look oblique, The obvious...guarded phrase whose meaning kills ; yet told, The listener wonders how you thought it cold ; These, and a thousand griefs minute as these, Corrode our... | |
 | John Sinclair - 1886 - 228 pages
...well as words, by attitudes and gestures if not by abusive language, we may be guilty of slander. " The hint malevolent, the look oblique, The obvious...harsh reply, And all the cruel language of the eye ; These, and a thousand griefs minute as these, Corrode our comfort, and destroy our ease Have we not... | |
 | 1889 - 934 pages
...equivocal, the harsh reply, And all the cruel language of the eye; The artful enquiry, whose venomed dart Scarce wounds the hearing while it stabs the...guarded phrase, whose meaning kills, yet told, The list'uer wonders how yon thought it cold ; These, and a thousand griefs minute as these, Corrode our... | |
 | John Kennedy - 1890 - 314 pages
...the first deluge left it, With a bright bow of many colors hung Upon the forest toj>a.—Brainard. The sneer equivocal, the harsh reply, And all the cruel language of the eye.— Hannah Mare. Aloof with hermit-eve 1 scan PHOS; PHOT — PIL. Phos ; phot — light ; phosphorus (the... | |
 | 1892 - 624 pages
...them again. And tlie "thistle-seeds" need not be of the tongue. False witness is too often borne by " The hint malevolent, the look oblique, The obvious...harsh reply, And all the cruel language of the eye." — More. Covetousness ! Ver. 17. In the backwoods of Canada the forests have to be cleared for farms.... | |
 | George Augustus Lofton - 1898 - 468 pages
...the ways and means employed! What a portraiture Hannah More has painted of the villain and his art! The hint malevolent, the look oblique, The obvious...cruel language of the eye; The artful injury, whose venomed dart Scarce wounds the hearing while it stabs the heart; The guarded phrase whose meaning kills,... | |
 | G. J. Barker-Benfield - 1992 - 554 pages
...sensibility's thin-skinned reactiveness to the "trifles" she sees making "the sum of human things," The hint malevolent, the look oblique, The obvious...Scarce wounds the hearing while it stabs the heart Small slights, contempt, neglect unmix'd with hate Make up in number what they want in weight . . .... | |
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The hint malevolent, the look oblique, The obvious satire, or implied dislike ; The sneer equivocal, the harsh reply, And all the cruel language of the eye ; The artful injury, whose... 
