 | James Knox Polk - 1969 - 632 pàgines
...until 1847 and in the US Senate from 1849 until 1855. 7. Corruption of William Shakespeare's phrase, "And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee/ where thrift may follow fawning." Hamlet, Act 3, scene 2, lines 66-67. 8. Sally Walker Hubbard. FROM NATHAN CLIFFORD1 [Dear Sir] Newfield... | |
 | Bernard Shaw - 2004 - 48 pàgines
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 | Kenneth Muir - 2005 - 224 pàgines
...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 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,... | |
 | Scott McCrea - 2005 - 310 pàgines
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 | Michael O'Neill, Mark Sandy - 2006 - 412 pàgines
...— [which you would hallow through all time] — 'or who has more severely stigmatised those "who crook the pregnant hinges of the knee where thrift may follow fawning?"' [Granted, none better.] 'It is true he was not actuated by an envious hatred of greatness' — [so... | |
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No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning. 
