"Stubborn Things" (Facts? Truth? Rhymes?)

Thu Dec 16 03:15:42 UTC 2004

More "stubborn things."

The Avalon Project at Yale Law School
The Papers of John Adama
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/presiden/adamspap.htm
No "stubborn things"!

(LITERATURE ONLINE)(Poetry)

 1. Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, 1840-1922 [Author Page]
THE LITTLE LEFT HAND A MID-VICTORIAN DRAMA IN THREE ACTS  111Kb , [from The Poetical Works (1914)] [URL for this text]
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ACT I 40Kb 40Kb
Scene I A large Room scantily furnished. 6Kb 6Kb
...King's constables are facts and stubborn things. Davis. The constables are...

   2. Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 [Author Page]
THE RING AND THE BOOK.  1338Kb , [from The Poetical Works (1888-94)] [URL for this text]
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II. HALF-ROME. 97Kb 97Kb
...are facts and flinch not; stubborn things, And the question "Prithee,...

   3. Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824 [Author Page]
HINTS FROM HORACE: BEING AN ALLUSION IN ENGLISH VERSE TO THE EPISTLE "AD PISONES, DE ARTE POETICÂ," AND INTENDED AS A SEQUEL TO "ENGLISH BARDS, AND SCOTCH REVIEWERS."  57Kb , [from The works (1898-1904): HOURS OF IDLENESS AND OTHER EARLY POEMS] [URL for this text]
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..."Rhymes are difficult things---they are stubborn things, Sir." Fielding's Amelia ,...

   4. Canning, Josiah D. (Josiah Dean), 1816-1892 [Author Page]
THE REVIEW.  28Kb , [from Poems (1838)] [URL for this text]
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DUAN FIRST. 9Kb 9Kb
...   "Facts," it is said, "are stubborn things," Preferred before the word...

   5. Ireland, W. H. (William Henry), 1777-1835 [Author Page]
Chalcographimania.  92Kb , [from Chalcographimania (1814)] [URL for this text]
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BOOK THE SECOND. 21Kb 21Kb
AUCTIONEERS, &c. 20Kb 20Kb
...[note] [y] Facts are rather stubborn things. The events above recorded...

   6. Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 [Author Page]
The Poet's Apology  3Kb , [from The Poetical Works (1923)] [URL for this text]
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...Reviews. 'Rhymes', in truth, 'are stubborn things', And to rhyme she...

   7. Lloyd, Charles, 1775-1839 [Author Page]
DESULTORY THOUGHTS IN LONDON A Poem.  243Kb , [from Desultory Thoughts in London [etc.] (1821)] [URL for this text]
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SECOND BOOK. 84Kb 84Kb
...consequence. 74 Facts, facts, are stubborn things! We trust the sense...

   8. Mason, William, 1725-1797 [Author Page]
AN HEROIC POSTSCRIPT TO THE PUBLIC.  8Kb , [from An Heroic Postscript to the Public (1774)] [URL for this text]
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...have been sooner. Facts are stubborn things. [note] ...

   9. Moody, William Vaughn, 1869-1910 [Author Page]
THE BRUTE  6Kb , [from The Poems and Plays [1912]] [URL for this text]
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...lust of pride O'er the stubborn things that he, Breaks to...

   10. Pagett, Thomas Catesby, 1689-1742 [Author Page]
AN ESSAY ON HUMAN LIFE.  30Kb , [from Miscellanies in prose and verse (1741)] [URL for this text]
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...be chang'd, but Truths are stubborn Things, They court not Fav'rites,...

 11. Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882 [Author Page]
II [In the time of the civil broils]  1Kb , [from The Works (1911)] [URL for this text]
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...civil broils    Our swords are stubborn things. A fig for all...

   12. Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816 [Author Page]
[A Familiar Epistle]  51Kb , [from The Plays & Poems of Richard Brinsley Sheridan Edited with Introductions, Appendices and Bibliographies by R. Crompton Rhodes ... Volume III (1928)] [URL for this text]
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...it could have been sooner. stubborn things."---Note to Her. Post. [note]...

   13. Whyte, S. (Samuel), 1733-1811 [Author Page]
THE THEATRE.  68Kb , [from A Collection of Poems on Various Subjects (1792)] [URL for this text]
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...by facts; for facts are stubborn things. Envy the harvest of...

(LITERATURE ONLINE)(Drama)

 1. Campbell, Bartley Theodore, 1843-1888 [Author Page]
Fairfax  226Kb
FAIRFAX   [URL for this text]
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ACT V.   [URL for this text]
...my child; but facts are stubborn things and we mustn't let...

   2. Lover, Samuel, 1797-1868 [Author Page]
Mac Carthy More [1861]  171Kb
MAC CARTHY MORE; OR, POSSESSION NINE POINTS OF THE LAW. A Comic Drama, IN TWO ACTS.   [URL for this text]
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ACT I.   [URL for this text]
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...must bow, for they are stubborn things. [Stage direction] ...

   3. Lover, Samuel, 1797-1868 [Author Page]
Mac Carthy More [1861]  160Kb
MAC CARTHY MORE; OR, POSSESSION NINE POINTS OF THE LAW. A Comic Drama, IN TWO ACTS.   [URL for this text]
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ACT I.   [URL for this text]
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...must bow, for they are stubborn things. [Stage direction] Then I make...

   4. Milns, William, 1761-1801 [Author Page]
All in a Bustle (1798)  63Kb
ALL IN A BUSTLE: OR THE NEW HOUSE. A COMIC PRELUDE WRITTEN FOR THE OPENING OF THE NEW THEATRE IN NEW-YORK. PERFORMED FOR THE FIRST TIME, ON MONDAY JAN. 29, 1798.   [URL for this text]
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...sir. Jin. [Standardized name] Facts are stubborn things Madam---Experientia docet; nature foresaw...

   5. Minshull, John [Author Page]
A Comedy, Entitled The Sprightly Widow (1803)  224Kb
A COMEDY, ENTITLED THE SPRIGHTLY WIDOW, WITH THE FROLICS OF YOUTH; OR A SPEEDY WAY OF UNITING THE SEXES, BY HONORABLE MARRIAGE.   [URL for this text]
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...to relate, but facts are stubborn things---are they not my dear?...
...sex to be fond of stubborn things---There is no putting nature...

(LITERATURE ONLINE)(Prose)

 1. Cary, Alice, 1820-1871 [Author Page]
Clovernook, or Recollections of our Neighborhood in the West. [Volume II.] (1853)  853Kb
Clovernook, or Recollections of our Neighborhood in the West. [Volume II.]   [URL for this text]
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MY VISIT TO RANDOLPH   [URL for this text]
IV.   [URL for this text]
...her aversion to the marriage state. But facts are truly stubborn things, and will make head against a great many probabilities...

   2. Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754 [Author Page]
Amelia (1752)  1492Kb
Amelia   [URL for this text]
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Vol. 3   [URL for this text]
AMELIA. BOOK VIII.   [URL for this text]
CHAP. V.   [URL for this text]
...and a laced Suit. Rhimes are difficult Things; they are stubborn Things, Sir. I have been sometimes longer in tagging a...

   3. Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830 [Author Page]
On Reason and Imagination [in, The Plain Speaker ... Volume I] (1826)  38Kb
On Reason and Imagination [in, The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things. In two volumes. Volume I]   [URL for this text]
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ESSAY V. ON REASON AND IMAGINATION.   [URL for this text]
...all the distinctions of the jurists. Facts, concrete existences, are stubborn things, and are not so soon tampered with or turned...

   4. Kennedy, John Pendleton, 1795-1870 [Author Page]
Quodlibet: Containing Some Annals Thereof: With an Authentic Account of the Origin and Growth of the Borough . . . Edited by Solomon Secondthoughts [pseud] (1840)  512Kb
Quodlibet: Containing Some Annals Thereof: With an Authentic Account of the Origin and Growth of the Borough . . . Edited by Solomon Secondthoughts [pseud]   [URL for this text]
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CHAPTER XVI.   [URL for this text]
...refuted that antiquated and vulgar adage which stigmatises facts as stubborn things. Thus the beauty of this unrivalled philosophy consists in...

   5. Lever, Charles, 1806-1872 [Author Page]
Tom Burke (1844)  2125Kb
Tom Burke Of "Ours." By Charles Lever. (Harry Lorrequer.) With Numerous Illustrations on Steel, by H. K. Browne. In Two Volumes   [URL for this text]
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VOL. I.   [URL for this text]
CHAPTER V. THE CABIN.   [URL for this text]
...from any suspicion of this nature; but sworn informations are stubborn things, and it is possible that, in ignorance of the...

   6. Mackay, Charles, 1814-1889 [Author Page]
An Inquiry Into The Alleged Anti-Poetical ... [in, Egeria, Or The Spirit of Nature ...] (1850)  32Kb
An Inquiry Into The Alleged Anti-Poetical Tendencies Of The Present Age [in, Egeria, or The Spirit of Nature; And Other Poems. By Charles Mackay]   [URL for this text]
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AN INQUIRY INTO THE ALLEGED ANTI-POETICAL TENDENCIES OF THE PRESENT AGE.   [URL for this text]
...it---that it is an earnest age; for if facts be stubborn things, utility is an earnest and a thoughtful thing, and...

   7. Reeve, Clara, 1729-1807 [Author Page]
The Progress of Romance ... (1785)  302Kb
The Progress of Romance, through Times, Countries, and Manners ... in a Course of Evening Conversations. By C. R ... in Two Volumes ...   [URL for this text]
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[Volume II]   [URL for this text]
EVENING IX.   [URL for this text]
...too common ever since!---I reason from facts, and they are stubborn things. Hort. I am afraid there is too much truth...

(AMERICAN PERIODICAL SERIES ONLINE)

1. A letter written by the author of Juvenis, to Mr. Z-- P--, at Greenfield, in Connecticut
D S B. The New York Magazine, or Literary Repository (1790-1797). New York: Jun 1791. Vol. 2, Iss. 6; p. 337 (2 pages)

   2. Inhuman treatment to a negro slave
Antonetta. The New York Magazine, or Literary Repository (1790-1797). New York: Jun 1791. Vol. 2, Iss. 6; p. 338 (2 pages)
Pg. 338: ...such an assertion may seem bold, but facts are stubborn things, and had I not _them_ to support me, it is probable I should not attempt to oppose the opinions of such an eminent reasoner.

   3. Facts are stubborn things!
Observator. The Time Piece; and Literary Companion (1797-1798). New York: Sep 6, 1797. Vol. 1, Iss. 77; p. 306 (1 page)