 | Richard Garnett - 1903 - 504 str.
...Having given no evidence of a turn for poetry, he " broke out like the Irish Rebellion, three score thousand strong, when nobody was aware or in the least suspected it," as Waller said, by publishing in 1642 his tragedy of The Sophy and his famous topographical poem Cooper's... | |
 | Anthony Hamilton (Count) - 1903 - 378 str.
...his play of The Sophy came out, which did take extremely. Mr. Edmund Waller said then of him, that he broke out like the Irish Rebellion — threescore thousand strong, when nobody suspected it. He was much rooked by gamesters, and fell acquainted with that unsanctified crew to his... | |
 | Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Lady Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche - 1904 - 538 str.
...The Sophy ' appeared in 1641. Speaking of the poet in connection with this piece, Waller said that " he broke out like the Irish rebellion, threescore...when nobody was aware or in the least suspected it." After this he retired to Oxford, where, in 1643, he published 'Cooper's Hill,' a poem of some three... | |
 | Staff - 1847 - 638 str.
...by step the subtle character of their proceedings ; and, in short, to adopt the words of Waller, " broke out, like the Irish rebellion, three-score thousand...was aware, or in the least suspected it." Certainly, few speeches ever produced so startling an effect, or acquired such eulogiums both within and without... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 482 str.
...John Denham, born in 1615, produced his one play, " The Sophy," which caused Waller to say of him that he " broke out like the Irish rebellion, threescore...when nobody was aware, or in the least suspected it." The play opens in Persia when there is much dread of an impending battle with the Turks. Prince Mirza,... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1871 - 714 str.
...made on the opening of the session, November 13, 1755, when, to use the words of Waller, "he«broke out like the Irish rebellion, threescore thousand...when nobody was aware or in the least suspected it." No copy of this celebrated speech, so far as is known, remains; but of the great impression that it... | |
 | 1846 - 652 str.
...of the poem was complete, and people applied to the new poet what Waller had said of Denham, " that he broke out like the Irish Rebellion, threescore thousand strong, when nobody was aware or at the least suspected it." The memorable quarto of the month of March {Childe Harold) was followed... | |
 | 1915 - 844 str.
...in 1642. Waller said of Denham's performance : ' He broke out like the Irish rebellion, three score thousand strong, when nobody was aware, or in the least suspected it.' " — DNB 124 [DE QUINCEY (Thomas)]. Confessions of an English Opium-Enter. First Edition. Fcap. 8vo,... | |
 | Maggs Bros - 1926 - 932 str.
...' Mirza.' Waller said of Denham's performance: 'He broke out like the Irish rebellion, three score thousand strong, when nobody was aware, or in the least suspected it.' 441 DENMARK. AN ACCOUNT OF DENMARK, as it was in the Year 1692. 8vo. Original calf. London, Printed... | |
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This seems to have given him his first hold of the public attention ; for Waller remarked, "that he broke out like the Irish rebellion, threescore thousand strong, when nobody was aware, or in the least suspected it ;" an observation which could have... 
