 ... 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 blot...  Elia. The last essays of Elia - Pàgina 260per Charles Lamb - 1871Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1843 - 450 pàgines
...FATHER'S LOVE ! Tandragce, ISthNov. 1848. H. POOR RELATIONS A poor relation is generally considered the most irrelevant thing in nature — a piece of...preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of prosperity — an unwelcome remembrancer — a perpetually recurring mortification — a drain on the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pàgines
...Bridget unchanged by my side — but John L. (or Jamee Elia) wae gone for ever. Poor Relations. A poor 臠$ your prosperity, an unwelcome remembrancer, a perpetually recurring mortification, a drain on your... | |
 | Orville Dewey - 1844 - 904 pàgines
...influence. " A poor relation," — says an English writer, satirizing the manners of his countrymen — " is the most irrelevant thing in nature ; a piece of...preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noontide of your prosperity; an unwelcome remembrancer; a perpetually recurring mortification; a drawback upon... | |
 | Katherine Thomson - 1844 - 926 pàgines
...themselves. And here Ella and Mr. Carew remained for some days with Miss Smith. CHAPTER III. " A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature. — a piece of impertinent correspondency, — a blot on your escutcheon, — a rent in your garments, — a death's head at your banquet." ELIA.... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1849 - 326 pàgines
...accumulation of metaphors suggested by the contemplation of a poor relation. For instance : "A courier is the most irrelevant thing in nature — a piece...impertinent correspondency — an odious approximation — a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity — an unwelcome remembrancer —... | |
 | 1852 - 436 pàgines
...Bromham, four miles from Devizes, in the some vault with two of his children. POOS RELATIONS. A Poor Relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature —...recurring mortification— a drain on your purse, a moat intolerable dun upon your pride — a drawback upon success — a rebuke to your rising — a... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1855 - 798 pàgines
...to be revivified. POOR RELATIONS. A POOR relation — is the most irrelevant thing in nature — 9 piece of impertinent correspondency — an odious...preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noontide of your prosperity — an unwelcome remembrancer — a perpetually-recurring mortification — a drain... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 422 pàgines
...inspire a feeling of the comic as well as the pathetic. A poor relation, according to Charles Lamb, is the most irrelevant thing in nature — a piece...our prosperity — an unwelcome remembrancer — a perpetually-recurring mortification — a drain on your parse, a more intolerable dun than your pride... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 410 pàgines
...inspire a feeling of the comic as well as the pathetic. A poor relation, according to Charles Lamb, is the most -irrelevant thing in nature — a piece...our prosperity — an unwelcome remembrancer — a perpetually-recurring mortification — a drain on your purse, a more intolerable dun than your pride... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1856 - 408 pàgines
...extinguished habitations there may be a hope-— a germe to be revivified. 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... | |
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