 ... 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
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1905 - 422 pàgines
...approximation, — a haunting conscience, — a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noontide of your prosperity, — an unwelcome remembrancer, — a perpetually...on your purse, — a more intolerable dun upon your 20 pride, — a drawback upon success, — a rebuke to your rising, — a stain in your blood, —... | |
 | Walter Jerrold - 1905 - 148 pàgines
...smiles while touching to tears — with a wonderful introductory piling up of definitions : " A Poor Relation — is the most irrelevant thing in nature, — a piece of impertinent correspondency, — a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noontide of your prosperity, — an unwelcome remembrancer,"... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1909 - 366 pàgines
...colleges, you think you have with you the Interpreter at the House Beautiful. 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 5 mortification, — a... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1909 - 1116 pàgines
...extreme humility, having 'an earthen pot placed beside him at table to remind him of his origin. A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondency, ... a death's-head at >our banquet, Agathocles' pot, a Mordecai in your gate, a La/arus at your door,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1910 - 352 pàgines
...lady in that very blue summer15 house." 13. bed-tester: a canopy over a bed. XX. 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 perpetu- 5 ally recurring mortification, —... | |
 | John Adams - 1910 - 448 pàgines
...available) the following description, and asking them to say what is the subject of the first is: — " is the most irrelevant thing in nature — a piece...preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noontide of 1 Scott : Woodstock, Chap. XXV. our prosperity — an unwelcome remembrancer — a perpetually recurring... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1912 - 652 pàgines
...it statesmanship to pension off her sister kingdom as a poor relation. But, as Lamb says, ' a poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a...preposterous shadow lengthening in the noon-tide of your prosperity, an unwelcome remembrancer, a perpetually recurring mortification, a drain on your... | |
 | Claude Moore Fuess - 1914 - 244 pàgines
...them stronger than they are — but consider, he is a weakling — a flower. POOR RELATIONS A POOR RELATION — is the most irrelevant thing in nature,...correspondency — an odious approximation, — a hauntkig conscience, — a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noontide of our prosperity, —... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - 1915 - 518 pàgines
...stronger than they are — but consider, he is a weakling — a flower. — Lamb. POOR RELATIONS A POOR Relation — is the most irrelevant thing in nature,...unwelcome remembrancer, — a perpetually recurring mortifi212 Anthology of Essays cation, — a drain on your purse, — a more intolerable dun upon your... | |
 | Hugh Walker - 1915 - 400 pàgines
...language. But in Poor Relations Lamb bursts into a perfect riot of whimsical metaphors : — " 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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