 ... 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 - 1876 - 740 pàgines
...summer-house." \ elations. ' (The London Magazine, May, 1823.) A POOR relation — is the most irrelevant tiling in nature,— a piece of impertinent correspondency,...preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noontide of your prosperity, — an unwelcome remembrancer, — a perpetually recurring mortification, — a drain... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1877 - 104 pàgines
...pretty, insipid, half-Madonnaish chit of a lady in that very blue summerhouse." POOR RELATIONS. 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 oil your... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1879 - 454 pàgines
...their extinguished habitations there may be a hope — a germ to be revivified. POOR RELATIONS. POOR RELATION— is the most irrelevant thing in nature,...success, — a rebuke to your rising, — a stain iu your blood, — a blot on your 'scutcheon, — a rent in your garment, — a death's head at your... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 576 pàgines
...seemingly the most obvious, arts make their way among mankind. The Essays of Elia. POOR RELATION8. A POOR oise is this in our house ?" " Fear not. fear not, Flora, — God is with us." " Mother 1 unweleome remembrancer, — a perpetually recurring mortification, — a drain on your purse, a more... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1879 - 732 pàgines
...their extinguished habitations there may be a hope — a germ to be revivified. POOR RELATIONS. A POOR s struck with the affected attitude of a figure, which I ehadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity, — an unwelcome remembrancer, — a perpetually... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 pàgines
...Dridget unchanged by my side.— but John L. (or James Ella) was gone for ever. Poor Relations. A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a...impertinent correspondency, an odious approximation, a hannting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noontide of your prosperity, an unwelcome... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 pàgines
...seemingly the most ol>vious, arts make their way among mankind. The Essays of Klia. POOR RELATIONS. A POOR opher, in seven Dialogues, containing — я haunting conscience, — я preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity,... | |
 | 1879 - 336 pàgines
...feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance. POOR RELATIONS. BY CHARLES LAMB. POOR relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature — a piece of impertinent correspondency — an ocj;ous approximation — a haunting conscience — a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noontide... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 pàgines
...235, 432.) 1a best known by his Essays, which abound in humour and' whim. The Poor Rdation. A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a...your purse, a more intolerable dun upon your pride, a drawhack upon success, a rebuke to your 2 p 2 rising, a stain in your blood, a blot on your 'scutcheon,... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - 1880 - 724 pàgines
...SPARK." Poor Relations. One of the best known and most humorous of the Essays of Elia (qv). "A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a...remembrancer, a perpetually recurring mortification, a draw on your pareo, a more intolerable dun on your pride, a drawback upon success, a rebuke to your... | |
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