 | American literature - 1849 - 600 pages
...is privileged to be tedious by usage ind tradition; and, secondly, the case (authorized by the best usages in living society) of narrators or raconteurs....to conversation. Of all the bores whom man in his foily hesitates to hang, and heaven in its mysterious wisdom suffers to propagate their species, the... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 602 pages
...is privileged to be tedious by usage and tradition; and, secondly, the case (authorized by the best usages in living society) of narrators or raconteurs....stories" — a nuisance that should be put down by cudgeling, by submersion in horse-ponds, or any mode of abatement, as summarily as men would combine... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1854 - 316 pages
...is privileged to be tedious by usage and tradition ; and, secondly, the case (authorized by the best usages in living society) of narrators or raconteurs....a nuisance that should be put down by cudgelling, by submersion in horse-ponds, or any mode of abatement, as summarily as men would combine to suffocate... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1856 - 316 pages
...is privileged to be tedious by usage and tradition ; and, secondly, the case (authorized by the best usages in living society) of narrators or raconteurs....a nuisance that should be put down by cudgelling, by submersion in horse-ponds, or any mode of abatement, as summarily as men would combine to suffocate... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Authors, English - 1862 - 452 pages
...case (authorized by the best usages ii living society) of narrators or raconteurs. This is a Liiojkiug anomaly in the code of French good taste as applied...a nuisance that should be put down by cudgelling, by submersion in horse-ponds, or any mode of abatement, as summarily as men would combine to suffocate... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - Conversation - 1863 - 346 pages
...is privileged to be tedious by usage and tradition; and, secondly, the case (authorized by the best usages in living society) of narrators or raconteurs....species, the most insufferable is the teller of "good stories"—a nuisance that should be put down by cudgelling, a submersion in' horseponds, or any mode... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1866 - 320 pages
...is privileged to be tedious by usage and tradition ; and, secondly, the case (authorized by the best usages in living society) of narrators or raconteurs....a nuisance that should be put down by cudgelling, by submersion in horse-ponds, or any mode of abatement, as summarily as men would combine to suffocate... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1877 - 624 pages
...is privileged to bo tedious by usage and tradition ; and, secondly, the case (authorized by the best usages in living society) of narrators or raconteurs....—a nuisance that should be put down by cudgelling, by submersion in horse-ponds, or any mode of abatement, as summarily as men would combine to suffocate... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - English essays - 1877 - 440 pages
...is privileged to be tedious by usage and tradition ; and, secondly, the case (authorized by the best usages in living society) of narrators or raconteurs. This is a shocking anomaly in the eode of French good taste as applied to conversation. Of all the bores whom man in his folly hesitates... | |
 | William Mathews - American essays - 1881 - 358 pages
...exception in their code of good taste as applied to conversation, viz., the of narrators or raconteurs. Of all the bores whom man in his folly hesitates to hang, the most insufferable, he declares, is the teller of "good stories," — a nuisance which, he asserts,... | |
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... usages in living society) of narrators or raconteurs. This is a shocking anomaly in the code of French good taste as applied to conversation. Of all the bores whom man in his folly hesitates to hang, and heaven in its mysterious wisdom suffers to... 
