 ... prosperity, — an unwelcome remembrancer, — a perpetually recurring mortification, — a drain on your purse, — a more intolerable dun upon your pride, — a drawback upon success, — a rebuke to your rising, — a stain in your blood, — a...  The prose works of Charles Lamb - Pàgina 10per Charles Lamb - 1836Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Charles Lamb - 1894 - 464 pàgines
...their extinguished habitations there may be a hope — a germ to be revivified. POOE RELATIONS. A POOE Relation — is the most irrelevant thing in nature,...lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity, — an im welcome remembrancer, — a perpetually recurring mortification, — a drain on your purse, —... | |
 | 1882 - 724 pàgines
...to teach her love — an insatiable love to last till death ! CHAPTER VI. THE NE'ER-DO-WEEL. 'A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature— a piece of impertinent correspondency, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, ... a death's-head at your banquet, Agathocles' pot,... | |
 | Alfred Mudge - 1868 - 542 pàgines
...we admit the sarcastic and withering odium of Charles Lamb cast upon poor relatives, that they are the most "irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent...preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noontide of your prosperity, an unwelcome remembrancer, a perpetual recurring mortification, a drain on your purse,... | |
 | 1872 - 556 pàgines
...calleth her mother. — Economy of Human Life. [CHARLES LAMB. 1775 — 1834.] POOR RELATIONS. A POOR relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a...preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noontide of your prosperity, an unwelcome remembrancer, a perpetually recurring mortification, a drain on your... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1875 - 324 pàgines
...good-hearted and lovable essayist proved by his life that the article quoted was written in deep satire), " a piece of impertinent correspondency — an odious...preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noontide of your prosperity — an unwelcome remembrancer — a perpetually recurring mortification- — a drain... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1875 - 494 pàgines
...good-hearted and lovable essayist proved by his life that the article quoted was written in deep satire), " a piece of impertinent correspondency — an odious...preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noontide of your prosperity — an unwelcome remembrancer — a perpetually recurring mortification — a drain... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1875 - 346 pàgines
...approximation — a haunting conscience — a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noontide of your prosperity — an unwelcome remembrancer — a perpetually...— a drain on your purse — a more intolerable dun on your pride — a drawback upon success — a rebuke to your rising — a stain in your blood —... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1875 - 618 pàgines
...to be revivified. POOR RELATIONS. A POOR relation — is the most irrelevant thing in nature — «j piece of impertinent correspondency — an odious...— a haunting conscience — a preposterous shadow, length* ening in the noontide of your prosperity — an unwelcome remembrancer — a perpetually-recurring... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 386 pàgines
...consider the trunk-maker as the sexton of authorship. — Byron's Journals. POOR RELATIONS. A POOR RELATION is the most irrelevant thing in nature ;...preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noontide of your prosperity; an unwelcome remembrancer; a perpetually recurring mortification ; a drain on your... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pàgines
...Bridget unchanged by my side — but John L. (or James Elia) was gone for ever. Poor Relations. A poor the morning ; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes,...temples lie Open unto the fields and to the sky, All your prosperity, an unwelcome remembrancer, a perpetually recurring mortification, a drain on your... | |
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