 ... 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
 | William Frank Bryan, Ronald Salmon Crane - 1916 - 540 pàgines
...half-Madonaish chit of a lady in that very blue summer house." POOR RELATIONS London Magazine, May, 1823 A Poor Relation — is the most irrelevant thing in nature,...correspondency, — an odious approximation,— a haunting conscience,—a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noontide of our prosperity, — an unwelcome... | |
 | Francis Patrick Donnelly - 1919 - 328 pàgines
...people, for the people shall not perish from the earth. — Gettysburg Address. EXERCISE 20 1. 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 dram... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - 284 pàgines
...needed most by those who suffer from it most. — Emerson. Relation is one of the most irrelevant things in nature — a piece of impertinent correspondency,...rising, — a stain in your blood, — a blot on your 'scut cheon — a rent in your garment, — a death's head at your banquet, — Agothocle's pot, —... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - 252 pàgines
...Emerson. POOR Relation is one of the most irrelevant things in nature — a piece of imper& tinent correspondency, — an odious approximation, — a...rising, — a stain in your blood, — a blot on your 'scut cheon — a rent in your garment, — a death's head at your banquet, — Agothocle's pot, —... | |
 | Rudolph Wilson Chamberlain, Joseph Sheldon Gerry Bolton - 1923 - 396 pàgines
...John L., (or James Elia) was gone for ever. 2Charles's sister Mary. POOR RELATIONS CHARLES LAMB A POOR Relation — is the most irrelevant thing in nature, — a piece of impertinent correspondence, — an odious approximation, — a haunting conscience, — a preposterous shadow,... | |
 | Rudolph Wilson Chamberlain, Joseph Sheldon Gerry Bolton - 1923 - 392 pàgines
...Relation — is the most irrelevant thing in nature, — a piece of impertinent correspondence, — an odious approximation, — a haunting conscience,...in the noontide of our prosperity, — an unwelcome remembrance, — a perpetually recurring mortification, — a drain on your purse, — a more intolerable... | |
 | George William McClelland - 1925 - 1178 pàgines
...noontide of your prosperity,—an unwelcome remembrancer,—a perpetually recurring mortification,—a success,—a rebuke to your rising,—a stain in your blood,—a blot on your 'scutcheon,—a rent... | |
 | George William McClelland - 1925 - 1180 pàgines
...Bridget * unchanged by my side — but John L. (or James Elia) was gone for ever. POOR RELATIONS A poor - •Alice Winterton, a 'The river of forgetfulfeigned name for a nets. young woman whom 'Lamb refers... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1744 pàgines
...of vacation, can never properly be said to be empty, having thee to fill it. Poor Relations A POOR ~ - — 1a blot on your 'scutcheon, — a rent in your garment, — a death's head at your banquet, —... | |
 | Burges Johnson - 1927 - 340 pàgines
...frights a Country Squire, than the Cries of London." — Joseph Addison, 1711. Poor Relations — "A Poor Relation — is the most irrelevant thing in nature, — a piece of impertinent correspondence, — an odious approximation, — a haunting conscience, — a preposterous shadow,... | |
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