 | John Bartlett - Quotations, English - 1906 - 1198 pages
...the end of Part i , which was omitted in all subsequent editions : — Is it a party in a parlour V Crammed just as they on earth were crammed, — Some...some sipping tea, But, as you by their faces see, Ail silent and all damned. Stanza 27 part i. Stanza 3 Stanza 13 stama is Stanai is. ae of those heavenly... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - English literature - 1906 - 304 pages
...The full stanza reads : " Is it a party in a parlour? Cramm'd just as they on earth were cramm'd — Some sipping punch, some sipping tea, But, as you by their faces see, All silent and all damn'd." June 2, 1820, Wordsworth was talking about these poems with Lamb and Crabb Robinson. June... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Wordsworth family - 1907 - 546 pages
...mulish," as contemptuous. " Spiteful," I fear, would scarcely be understood without your anecdote. Is it a party in a parlour ? Crammed just as they...you by their faces see, All silent, and all damned. This stanza — though one of the most imaginative in the whole piece — I omitted, not to offend... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1907 - 336 pages
...all his brethren ? 555 Is it a party in a parlour ? Cramm'd just as they on earth were cramm'd — Some sipping punch, some sipping tea, But, as you by their faces see, All silent and all damn'd ! 560 A throbbing pulse the Gazer hath — Puzzled he was, and now is daunted ; He looks, he... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1908 - 634 pages
...followed this stanza : Is it a party in a parlour ? Cramm'd just as they on earth were cramm'd — Some sipping punch, some sipping tea, But, as you by their faces see, All silent and all damn'd ! Shelley prefixed this stanza to his Peter Bell the Third. Wordsworth told Barren Field (letter... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1908 - 636 pages
...followed this stanza : Is it a party in a parlour ? Cramm'd just as they on earth were cramm'd — Some sipping punch, some sipping tea, But, as you by their faces sec, All silent and all damn'd ! Shelley prefixed this stanza to his Peter Bell the Third. Wordsworth... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1909 - 948 pages
...notwholly closed againsthis humbler fellow-creatures. PETER BELL THE THIRD BY MICHING MALLECHO, Esq. Is it a party in a parlour, Crammed just as they on earth wera crammed, Some sipping punch — some sipping tea ; But, as you by their faces see, All silent,... | |
 | Literature - 1912 - 372 pages
...concordance is innocent of it, — as it is likewise innocent of that ghastly punch-sipping, tea-sipping " party in a parlour, Crammed just as they on earth were crammed." On the other hand, the full radiance and resonance of Shelley's vocabulary are beyond Wordsworth's... | |
 | Walter Jerrold, Robert Maynard Leonard - English poetry - 1913 - 460 pages
...you'll soon forget ! PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. PETER BELL THE THIRD. BY MICHINO MALLECHO, ESQ. (WORDSWORTH) Is it a party in a parlour, Crammed just as they on...you by their faces see, All silent, and all damned ! Peter Bell, by W. WORDSWORTH. OPHELIA. What means this, my lord ? HAMLET. Marry, this is Miching... | |
 | George McLean Harper - 1916 - 486 pages
...person. The stanza ran thus: Is it a party in a parlour ? Cramm'd just as they on earth were cramm'd — Some sipping punch, some sipping tea, But, as you by their faces see. All silent and all damn'd 1 Yet it was the crude simplicities, not the overrefinement of the poem, that shocked most readers.... | |
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Is it a party in a parlour, Crammed just as they on earth were crammed, Some sipping punch — some sipping tea, But, as you by their faces see, All silent, and all damned ! Peter Bell, by W. 
