 | Books - 1837 - 656 pages
...of 'Protestant emancipation.' " Of a piece with the above may be given a much shorter quotation. " A dozen noblemen may have laid their own patrician...has my ear become, that I know a lord by his knock, aa one would know Velluti by his touch, Now a loud knock may be sometimes useful as a hint to a loitering... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1837 - 590 pages
...within a fortnight. As I use the dining-room to write in, I am within fifteen feet of the street-door, and no favour of this sort escapes my ears. Ridiculous...that parliament has passed a law to that effect, but / do mean to fay that so accurate has my ear become, that I know a lord by his knock, as one would... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1837 - 596 pages
...within a fortnight. As I use the dining-room to write in, I am .within fifteen feet of the street-door, and no favour of this sort escapes my ears. Ridiculous...seem, there is a species of etiquette established, by ichich a peer shall knock louder than a commoner! I do not mean to tell you that parliament has passed... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1837 - 580 pages
...within a fortnight. As I use the dining-room to write in, I am within fifteen feet of the street-door, and no favour of this sort escapes my ears. Ridiculous as it may seein, there is a species of etiquette established, by which a peer shall knock louder than a commoner!... | |
 | Christopher Mulvey - History - 1990 - 264 pages
...society. 'Ridiculous as it may seem,' wrote James Fenimore Cooper twenty-five years later in 1828, 'there is a species of etiquette established, by which a peer shall knock louder than a commoner.' Exactly the point of honour on which the Englishman might duel came home to Cooper one day when he... | |
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... but he is not quite so simple in all his habits and pretensions. I will give you a few laughable proofs of the contrary. - • A dozen noblemen may have laid their own patrician hands on my knocker, within a fortnight. As I use the dining-room to... 