...delicate and to provoke a severe critic. When Mr. Grant comes before us, he comes " As who should say, I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my mouth let no dog bark." If we were to judge by the present production, we should think that he had paid much more attention...

...correspondent change ; he still goes on with a swaggering independence to speak for himself alone. " I am Sir Oracle; and when I ope' my mouth, let no dog bark." " Above all," he says in his Preface, T '• I beg it to be understood, that this performance is theoretically...

...into the curviture of his lip, and calling his self-sufficiency into his eye, " As who should say, I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my mouth let no dog bark." Then directing my eyes in a side direction to a chair, which stood back from the promenade, he thus...

...that he was entertaining. He gave his opinions gravely, and authoritatively. " As who should say, ' I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my mouth, let no dog bark.'" Periphrasis (next to Catachresis) was his favourite figure of speech; but he did not indulge in fanciful...

...entertain Of purpose to be wrought in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, and sage conceit, As who should say, I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my mouth, let no dog bark." A laugh, an honest laugh at it, would break the spell at once, and force the Reverend Performers to...

...you differ from him, he will not "so much as allow an inquiry" into what your opinions are ! 670 " 1 am Sir Oracle, And, when I ope my mouth, let no dog bark !" " Excuse me, a moment," says the Roman Catholic ; — " it is not because you differ from me, worm...

...like a monkey / he grins, but never condescends to smile ; he seems to say, with Shakespeare, —" I am Sir Oracle ! and when I ope my mouth, let no dog bark." Ha! ha! ha! CHARLES. There never was thy like, NeH; and tnfly from my heart I pity poor Hart and 'Eacy,...

...PRIVATE LIFE. feelings it puts into action. Every one is inclined to dispute, or resent the assumption. ' I am Sir Oracle, and when I ope my mouth let no dog bark.' The egotism of selfishness is still more wearisome, though. perhaps, less irritating ; but if it does...

...patiently endure the ostentatious declaration, which, by his conduct, he virtually makes to them : * I am Sir Oracle, and when I ope my mouth, Let no dog bark.' " This contains another appalling fact, but it concerns the Metropolitan Society. It seems from the...

...the field with too much of the temper and arbitrary wantonness of a vapulator ; and seems to say, " I am Sir Oracle, and when I ope my mouth, let no dog bark." The two Warton's would have shewn copiousness of moral, classical, curious and varied learning, more...