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" For the critics, they have their business, and I mine; as the nursery proverb goes— "The children in Holland take pleasure in making What the children in England take pleasure in breaking. "
Waverley Novels: Vol. 7 - Página 14
por Walter Scott - 1845 - 727 páginas
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THE FORTUNES OF NIGEL

SIR WALTER SCOTT - 1871 - 520 páginas
...your mind from cant." For the critics, they have their business, and I mine; as the nursery proverb goes— " The children in Holland take pleasure in...time for considering whether they swallow or reject it.—To the public, I stand pretty nearly in the relation of the postman who leaves a packet at the...
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Waverley Novels, Volumen14

Walter Scott - 1871 - 524 páginas
...your mind from cant." For the critics, they have their business, and I mine ; as the nursery proverb goes — " The children in Holland take pleasure in...their humble jackal, too busy in providing food for ihem, to have time for considering whether they swallow or reject it. — To the public, I stand pretty...
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Fortunes of Nigel. Peveril of the Peak

Walter Scott - 1883 - 1166 páginas
...and I mine ; as the nursery proverb goes — " The children in Holland take pleasure in making \l~hat the children in England take pleasure in breaking....providing food for them, to have time for considering whetiter they swallow or reject it. — To the public, I gland pretty nearly in the relation of the...
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The Fortunes of Nigel

Walter Scott - 1886 - 922 páginas
...critics, they have their business, and I mine ; as the nursery proverb goes— " The children in Hnlland take pleasure in making What the children in England take pleasure in treating." lam their humble jackal, too busy in providing food for them, to have time for considering...
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Waverley Novels, Tema 26

Walter Scott - 1893 - 440 páginas
...in his romantic comedies. Critics might pick the obvious holes, but he was not writing for critics ; too busy in providing food for them to have time for considering whether they would swallow or reject it. " I cannot form a plot " : his people took their own ways, and had to be...
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Critical Essays of the Early Nineteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1921 - 458 páginas
...your mind from cant." For the critics, they have their business, and I mine; as the nursery proverb goes— The children in Holland take pleasure in making...pleasure in breaking. I am their humble jackal, too busy providing food for them to have time for considering whether they swallow or reject it. To the public...
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HOYT'S NEW CYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL QUOTATIONS

KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 páginas
...'neath her favoring eye. LOWELL — Indian-Summer Reverie. St. 10. CHILDHOOD (See also BABYHOOD) 18 irs To rouse a L'on than to start a hare! Henry IV....Pt.I. Act I. Sc.3. L. 198. 18 The smallest worm wil Old Nursery Rhyme. 19 My lovely living Boy, My hope, my hap, my Love, my life, my joy. Du BARTAS —...
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The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots

Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 688 páginas
...placatwn: smooth, calm, placate, complacent, implacable, placebo, placid, plea, please, pleasant, pleasure. The children in Holland take pleasure in making What...the children in England take pleasure in breaking. -Dutch nursery rhyme Gael clandaim: I plant, clan: spread of the family. OFr, ¡Ian. Sp, platina: little...
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Possible Scotlands: Walter Scott and the Story of Tomorrow

Caroline McCracken-Flesher - 2005 - 240 páginas
...Eidolon cultivates indeterminacy and embraces play. He preens himself as the critics' "humble jackall, too busy in providing food for them, to have time for considering whether they swallow or reject it" (9). "To the public," he claims, "I stand pretty near in the relation of the postman who leaves a packet...
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Dictionary of Proverbs

George Latimer Apperson - 2006 - 656 páginas
...8. Children in Holland ... (see quot.). 1822: Scott, Nigel, Introd. F.pist., As the nursery proverb goes - 'The children in Holland take pleasure in making...the children in England take pleasure in breaking' [ie toys]. 1849: I lalliwell, Pop. Rhymes and Nun. Tales, 187. 9. Children pick up words as pigeons...
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