 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1862 - 510 pages
...tempting subject. Here is one in which the Prime Minister is supposed to address his colleague — " I cannot see the Speaker, Hal ; can you?" — " Not see the Speaker? — hang it, I see two !" In July of this year we find Mr. Pitt give his mother an account, probably... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1867 - 496 pages
...tempting subject. Here is one in which the Prime Minister is supposed to address his colleague — " I cannot see the Speaker, Hal ; can you ? " — " Not see the Speaker ? — hang it, I see two ! " In July of this year we find Mr. Pitt give his mother an account, probably... | |
 | 1874 - 332 pages
...puts me in mind of the epigram, when Pitt and Dundas came drunk into the House of Commons, — 4 1 cannot see the Speaker, Hal, can you ?' ' Not see the Speaker! d— n me, I see two!'" MS. Note by Scott. 1 6. Tales of a Grandfather, being Stories from the History of... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1879 - 550 pages
...tempting subject. Here is one in which the Prime Minister is supposed to address his colleague — ' I cannot see the Speaker, Hal ; can you ? ' — ' Not see the Speaker ? — hang it, I see two ! ' In July of this year we find Mr. Pitt give his mother an account, probably... | |
 | George William Thomson Omond - Law - 1883 - 396 pages
...forgotten. It was probably in reference to this scene that the well-known couplet was written : — " I cannot see the Speaker, Hal. Can you ? Not see the Speaker, Billy ? I see two ! " The great scene of revelry was at Wimbledon, where Dundas had a country house.... | |
 | Thomas Hay Sweet Escott - Constitutional history - 1902 - 344 pages
...had, of course, the convivial allusion contained in the familiar couplet about Pitt and Dundas — I cannot see the Speaker, Hal, can you? Not see the Speaker, Billy, I see two. Among those of Cabinet rank at this time were two who have * Mr. Borthwick was also... | |
 | Thomas Hay Sweet Escott - Constitutional history - 1902 - 404 pages
...had, of course, the convivial allusion contained in the familiar couplet about Pitt and Dundas — I cannot see the Speaker, Hal, can you? Not see the Speaker, Billy, I see two. Among those of Cabinet rank at this time were two who have * Mr. Borthwick was also... | |
 | James Alexander Lovat-Fraser - Great Britain - 1916 - 174 pages
...of endless jest and wit. One epigram, in which Pitt is supposed to address Melville, is well known, "I cannot see the Speaker, Hal; can you?" "Not see the Speaker? hang it, I see two!" Wraxall records another occasion in 1784, on which the two statesmen gave evidence... | |
 | Henry Christopher Bailey - France - 1919 - 330 pages
...You might hear a ribald youth behind Mr. Fox murmur the imaginary conversation between the two : " ' I cannot see the Speaker ; Hal, can you?' ' Not see the Speaker ? Da>nme, I see two ! ' " Mr. Vaughan sat down and Sheridan stood up. A question of which the right... | |
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It is not to be supposed that even a single instance of the kind would be left unimproved by the wits at Brooks's. The Morning Chronicle came out with a long array of epigrams upon this tempting subject. Here is one in which the Prime Minister is supposed... 
