 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 626 páginas
...parliament. Like the 'juggling fiends ' in Macbeth, ' They paltered with him in a double sense, They kept the word of promise to the ear And broke it to the hope ' — and thus Was lost, — and again by deception and fraud, — another chance of arresting the... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1812 - 792 páginas
...in another — and how the promises to both had been grossly violated — how the noble lord " Kept the word of promise to the ear, " And broke it to the hope." But although all the promises to the people had been disregarded, promises to individuals were rigidly... | |
 | 1816 - 600 páginas
...matchless dexterity with which some men can keep the word of truth, as the witches in Macbeth kept the word of promise " to the ear," and " broke it to the sense." The evident intention of the writer of this paragraph is to make his readers believe, that... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Dilke - 1814 - 408 páginas
...he touched might be changed into gold ; his wish was immediately granted, a compliance " That kept the word of promise to the ear, And broke it to the hope." For his very food was necessarily subject to these transmutations, and thus the fulfilment of his own... | |
 | 1816 - 644 páginas
...matchless dextes rity with which some men can keep the word of truth, as the witches in Macbeth kept the word of promise " to the ear," and " broke it to the sense." The evident intention of the writer of this paragraph is to make his readers believe, that... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1817 - 174 páginas
...man, and though the proceedings of the House of Assembly in Jamaica, have on this subject so often " held the word of promise to the ear, and broke it to the hope," the earnest wish for the moral improvement of the negro, naturally disposes the friends of religion... | |
 | Henry Grattan - 1822 - 468 páginas
...Protestants in another ; and how the promises to both had been grossly violated. How the noble 1ord " Kept the word of promise to the ear, And broke it to the hope." Mr. GRATTAN said, that he hail for a considerable time entertained the same opinion upon the oppressive... | |
 | 1826 - 360 páginas
...for, and civilly • asked to patronise, with their presence, this •wondrous Masquerade; some " kept the word of promise to the ear, and broke it to the hope;" several declared it to be " no go,™ and some few of the latter description, (tumblers and equestrians,)... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1830 - 752 páginas
...but from the alteration in the currency they now paid eighty millions of bushels : thus they " kept the word of promise to the ear, and broke it to the sense" and to the heart, of a large portion of the people. Turning, then, to the manufacturer, the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1832 - 618 páginas
...parliament. Like the ' juggling fiends ' in Macbeth, ' They paltered with him in a double sense, They kept the word of promise to the ear And broke it to the hope ' — and thus was lost, — and again by deception and fraud, — another chance of arresting the... | |
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Union for mutual annoyance and defiance, and for mutual aid and support, which kept the word of promise to the ear and broke it to the hope, was hardly worth the having. 
