 Why, Affectation, why this mock grimace? Go, silly thing, and hide that simp 'ring face. Thy lisping prattle, and thy mincing gait, All thy false mimic fooleries I hate; For thou art Folly's counterfeit, and she Who is right foolish hath the better plea;...  Tales of Fashionable Life: Manœuvring - Страница 130по Maria Edgeworth - 1813Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Richard Cumberland - 1807 - 520 страници
...take discretion by the hand, " The world, O Wit, the world would be thine own." AFFECTATION. No. 2. ** Why, Affectation, why this mock grimace ? " Go, silly thing, and hide that simpering face I " Thy lisping prattle and thy mincing gait, " All thy false mimic fooleries I hate;... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1822 - 452 страници
...curiosity to take up the book when he turned away. She found that it was Cumberland's Memoirs, and saw the following little poem marked with reiterated lines of approbation. Why that soft languish ? Why that drawling tone ? Art sick, art sleepy ? Get thce hence ; begone. I laugh... | |
 | George Washington Light - 1833 - 402 страници
...conclude this paper with a scrap on ' Affectation.' Why, Affectation, why this mock grimace ? Go, sifly thing, and hide that simp'ring face. Thy lisping prattle, and thy mincing gait, All thy false mimick fooleries I hate; For thou art Folly's counterfeit, and she Who is right foolish, hath the better... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1835 - 494 страници
...curiosity to take up the book when he turned away. She found that it was Cumberland's Memoirs, and saw the following little poem marked with reiterated...'• Why, Affectation, why this mock grimace ! Go, Billy thing, and hide that simp'ring face. Thy lisping prattle, and thy mincing gait, Alt thy false... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1839 - 458 страници
...marked with reiterated lines of approbation : — •* Why, Affectation, why this mock grimace 1 I Go, silly thing, and hide that simp'ring face. Thy...and thy mincing gait, All thy false mimic fooleries 1 hate ; For thou art Folly's counterfeit, and she Who is right foolish halh the better plea; Nature's... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1848 - 648 страници
...curiosity to take up the book when he turned away. She found that it was Cumberland's Memoirs, and saw the following little poem marked with reiterated...this mock grimace? Go, silly thing, and hide that simp'riug face. Thy lisping prattle, and thy mincing gait, All thy false mimic fooleries I hate ; For... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1855 - 580 страници
...; neither does his share in the " Richard Coeur de Lion, of Sir James Bland Burgess." AFFECTATION. Why, Affectation, why this mock grimace! Go, silly thing, and hide that simpering face ! Thy lisping prattle, and thy mincing gait, All thy false mimic fooleries I hate; For... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - 1856 - 424 страници
...take discretion by the hand, , The world, O Wit, the world would be thine own.' AFFECTATION. No. 2. ' Why, Affectation, why this mock grimace ? Go, silly thing, and hide that simpering face ; Thy lisping prattle and thy mincing gait, All thy false mimic fooleries I hate ; For... | |
 | William Dawbarn - 1862 - 226 страници
...declama"tion." Cumberland wrote the following, which Miss Mitford gives as lines of great merit. AFFECTATION. Why, Affectation, why this mock grimace ? Go, silly thing, and hide that simpering face ! Thy lisping prattle, and thy mincing gait, All thy false mimic fooleries I hate ;... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 страници
...like a testy oabe will scratch the nurse, And presently, all humbled, kiss the rod ! Sh. Tviu GI 2. Why Affectation — why this mock grimace ? Go, silly thing, and hide that simpering face ! Thy lisping prattle, and thy mincing gait, All thy false mimic fooleries I hate ;... | |
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