 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pàgines
...clothe thee? 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,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1818 - 574 pàgines
...oppressors wrong' — or the abuses of ' brief authority;' or who Iras more severely stigmatised those ' who crook the pregnant hinges of the knee, where thrift may follow fawning:' It is true he was not actuated by an envious hatred of greatness; he was uot at all likely, had he... | |
 | John Moore - 1820 - 476 pàgines
...may smile, I 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... | |
 | John Moore, Robert Anderson - 1820 - 470 pàgines
...may smile, I 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 558 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 9 was mistress of her choice, And could of men distinguish her... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1824 - 428 pàgines
...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 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 - 1824 - 370 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 I Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice, And could of men distinguish her election,... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pàgines
...To feed, and clothe thee ? Why should the poor be flatter'd ? No, let the candy'd tongue lick absurd pomp ; And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee, Where thrift may follow fawning. Why, what a deal of candied courtesy, This fawning greyhound then did proffer me ! Look, — when his... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - 1824 - 486 pàgines
...spirits, To 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... | |
 | 1824 - 720 pàgines
...thorough Self-esteem, however, will learn to stomach this dislike to serve their own ends, and to " crook the pregnant hinges of the knee, where thrift may follow fawning." They will generally, however, endeavour, if they can, to revenge themselves for this on their own inferiors,... | |
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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. 
