...poet of Memory was himself as unsparing of others, and wrote of an acquaintance : They say that Ward's no heart, but I deny it. He has a heart and gets his speeches by it. Physical infirmities or blemishes were "fair game." A wit said to a courtier with long legs and a long...

...fancied he wanted to be ' rewarded.' They have fired an epigram at him : ' W d has no heart, they say, but I deny it ; He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it.' " A Suggestive Speaker. — Dr. Laurence had (says Brougham) "the very worst delivery ever witnessed...

...to practise his speeches, which he gave out as unpremeditated : — " Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it: He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it." When Ward, who had been a Whig, turned Tory, and said, . " I wonder what would make me turn Whig again,"...

...praises his memory at the expense of his affections.' The epigram is : Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it ; He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it. These lines, however, we think, were not written for Henry Ward. They were written by Rogers and referred...

...conference, their conceits have wings Fleeter than arrows, bullets, wind, thought, swifter things. Mr. Speaker Abbott having spoken in slighting terms of...it, He has a heart — and gets his speeches by it.' A man resents with more bitterness a satire upon his abilities than his practice. The hint malevolent,...

...; unless, perhaps, in the sense of Rogers's epigram on Lord Ward — Ward has no heart, they say ; but I deny it. He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it. Applegate, however, did not get his sermons by heart, though he put heart into his sermons. He preached...

...one having charged that a certain MP had no heart, the poet Rogers wrote this sharp retort : — Thev say he has no heart, but I deny it; He has a heart, and gets his tpeeches by it. Here is one on a worthless character : Robert complained much one day That Frank had...

...having charged that a certain MP had no neart, the poet Rogers wrote this sharp retort : — They вау he has no heart, but I deny it ; He has a heart, and gets hi-s xpeeches by it. Here is one on a worthless character : Robert complained much one day That Frank had...

...he acknowledged that he had received assistance from Richard Sharpe : " Ward has no heart, they say, but I deny it : He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it." The asperity of the epigram is easily accounted for when we consider the many personalities uttered...

...his revenge in writing these few lines, which were soon widely quoted : Ward has no heart, they say ; but I deny it : He has a heart, and gets his speeches by it! Satire (Latin satira, a mixture). A production in which follies and vices are ridiculed, sometimes...