 Nay, do not think I flatter ; For what advancement may I hope from thee That no revenue hast but thy good spirits, To feed and clothe thee ? Why should the poor be flatter'd ? No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges...  The Quarterly Review - Pàgina 463editat per - 1818Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 350 pàgines
...feed and clothe thee ? Should the poor be flattered? No, let the candied tougue lick absurd pomp, A.nd crook the pregnant hinges of the knee, Where thrift may follow fawning. Dost thou hear? Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice, And could of men distinguish, her election... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1814 - 528 pàgines
...and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flatter'd? No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp; And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee, Where thrift may follow fawning. Dost thou hear? Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice, And could of men distinguish her election,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pàgines
...Why should the VXJOT befUter'd? 64S BOOK III. 643 No, let the candied tongue licit absurd pomp ; And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee. Where thrift may follow fawning. Doat thou hear? Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice, And could of men distinguish her election,... | |
 | 1818 - 590 pàgines
...insolence of office' — ' the oppressors wrong' — or the abuses of ' brief authority ;' or who has more severely stigmatised those ' who crook the pregnant...actuated by an envious hatred of greatness; he was Hot at all likely, had he lived in our time, to be an orator in Spa-fields, or the editor of a seditious... | |
 | John Moore, Robert Anderson - 1820 - 470 pàgines
...am entirely disposed to believe were sincere ; for Altho' the candy'd tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee, Where thrift may follow fawning. -' • Why should the poor be flattered ? Just as I was returning, we heard the music of the troops... | |
 | John Moore - 1820 - 476 pàgines
...am entirely disposed to believe were sincere ; for Altho' the candy'd tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee, Where thrift may follow fawning . — ~ — Why should the poor be flattered » • ' • • Just as I was returning, we heard the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 558 pàgines
...clothe thee ? Why should the poor be flatter'd ? No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp ; And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee *, Where thrift may follow fawning *. Dost thou hear ? Since my dear soul 9 was mistress of her choice, And could of men distinguish her... | |
 | Johann Jacob Engel, Henry Siddons - 1822 - 552 pàgines
...and clothe thee 1 Why should the poor be flatter'dt No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp ; And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee, Where thrift may follow fawning. Dost thou hear? Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice, And could of men distinguish her election,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1824 - 428 pàgines
...and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flatter'd? No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp; And crook the pregnant-)" hinges of the knee, Where thrift may follow fawning. Dost thou hear? Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice, And could of men distinguish her election,... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - 1824 - 486 pàgines
...feed and clothe thee ? Should the poor be flatter'd ? No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee, Where thrift may follow fawning. Dost thou hear ? Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice, And could of men distinguish, her election... | |
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