 There were eight or ten more lines, but Peter destroyed them in his wrath. In the region of wild burlesque, where the ridiculous, by its intensity and mass, becomes the sublime, I never met any one to approach " Peter," except our amazing Medea-Robson.  Notes and Queries - Seite 4131909Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 404 Seiten
...Gibson 1794-1854 2557 Epitaph for Patrick ('Peter'), Lord Robertson Here lies that peerless paper peer Lord Peter, Who broke the laws of God and man and metre. LODGE David 19352558 The British Museum is Falling Doom Literature is mostly about having sex and not... | |
 | 1895 - 666 Seiten
...spoilt in the telling. The judge in question, Lord Robertson — Lockhart's ' Peerless paper peer, Lord Peter, Who broke the laws of God and man and metre ' — was travelling, not by rail, but by stage-coach, and was so far from having been asked, as the... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1863 - 838 Seiten
...more. The following epigram on P was appended to the article : — Here lies thai peerless japer lord, Lord Peter, Who broke the laws of God and man and metre. Mrs. Gordon, in her life of her father, Professor Wilson, says that these lines were only printed in... | |
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