...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 of impertinent correspondency — an odious approximation^-a haunting conscience — a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noontide of our...

...to be revivified. POOR RELATIONS. A POOR relation — is the most irrelevant thing in nature — « 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...

...that, with all its bustle, unless with well-regulated minds, the temple of ennui is London." A Poor Relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature —...preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noontide of your prosperity — an unwelcome remembrance — a perpetually recurring mortification — a drain...

...irrelevant thing in nature — a piece of impertinent correspondency — an odious approximation — a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide...remembrancer — a perpetually recurring mortification — a mote in your eye — a triumph to your enemy, an apology to your friends — the one thing not needful...

...instance, his satire of a " Poor .Relation." and we find something both pungent and critical. '• A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature —...impertinent correspondency — an odious approximation — a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity — an unwelcome remembrancer —...

...instance, his satire of a " Poor .Relation." and we find something both pungent and critical. •• A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature —...impertinent correspondency — an odious approximation — a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity — an unwelcome remembrancer —...

...Regularity is unity, unity is godlike, only the devil is changeable. Richter. RELATIOBT-A Poor. 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...

...have tried it will agree with us when, in the words of Charles Lamb, we say that a relative at school is " the most irrelevant thing in nature, — a piece of impertinent correspondency, — and odious approximation, — a haunting conscience, — a preposterous shadow ¡lengthening inthe...

...showing how many ways one object may be looked at. Take his definition of a Poor Relation. " A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature —...— 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 —...

...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, —...