 | 1807 - 556 sider
...name, a shadow ; -uo* et pn&terea mhil, a v.tin and empty sound ; in insulting mockery ; — that '' keeps the word of promise to the ear, and breaks it to the sense." Nay, it would be worse than an imaginary bene.. fit ; it would be a real evil ; — rfor it... | |
 | 1826 - 570 sider
...witches; what if it be no more than ati empty sound, : " That palters with us in a double sense, That keeps the word of promise to the ear, And breaks it to the hope;" what if the poetry be bad, the sentiment mean, and the note of tides and seasons to be found... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - 1827 - 344 sider
...well understood by the whole party, he exclaimed — " ' You palter with us in a double sense, That keeps the word of promise to the ear, And breaks it to our hope.' " * Tom begged that his father would explain to him how it could possibly be that the earth... | |
 | 1832 - 592 sider
...right would at the same time be a negation to his success. Like Macbeth's "juggling fiends" it " speaks the word of promise to the ear, And breaks it to the hope " The will «•' lord Leigh first became the subject of legal disquisition in the year 1808,... | |
 | 1832 - 678 sider
...severe preceptor ; but, nevertheless, a preceptor " that never palters with us in a double sense ; that keeps the word of promise to the ear, and breaks it to our hope." Go with me, and inquire of the first fellow-traveller to eternity whom you meet, whether... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1836 - 684 sider
...are at variance; when he promises, and does not perform, or even attempt to performi when "he speaks the word of promise to the ear, and breaks it to the hope," the whole world will at once pronounce him insincere. If this be true in the transactions of... | |
 | Pennsylvania Hall Association (Philadelphia, Pa.), Samuel Webb - 1838 - 222 sider
...most true. But it is not the land of performance ; and that, in short, is our very objection, " it keeps the word of promise to the ear, and breaks it to the hope." The mind of man is ever studious of change and pleased with novelty. If, therefore, Liberia... | |
 | George Robins Gliddon - 1844 - 92 sider
...cataracts, was the eradle of the ancient Egyptians. Bryant, who, by the way, frequently breathes " the word of promise to the ear, and breaks it to the hope," has judiciously remarked, that " among many learned men, who have betaken themselves to these... | |
 | George John T. Spencer (bp. of Madras.) - 1845 - 380 sider
...from all the deceits of the world, the flesh, and the devil. A temptation is always a deceit. " It keeps the word of promise to the ear, and breaks it to the sense;" for of course it promises to make us in some way or other happier than we are already, or else... | |
 | Democratic Party. National convention, Baltimore - 1852 - 78 sider
...cannot be performed. But when men pledge themselves in sadness, they never fail. The subdued heart never keeps the word of promise to the ear and breaks it to the hope. Gov. PORTER, chairman of the Pennsylvania delegation, then rose and said: I am instructed by... | |
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... he speaks the word of promise to the ear, and breaks it to the hope,' the whole world will at once pronounce him insincere. 
