Has every repartee in store She spoke ten thousand times before ; Can ready compliments supply On all occasions, cut and dry ; Such hatred to a parson's gown, The sight will put her in a swoon $ For conversation well endued, She calls it witty to be rude... Tales and Novels - Страница 241по Maria Edgeworth - 1848Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 472 страници
...hatred to a parson's gown, The sight will put her in a swoon ; For conversation well endued, She calls it witty to be rude ; And, placing raillery in railing, Will tell aloud your greatest (ailing ; .Nor make a scruple to expose Your bandy leg, or crooked nose ; Can at her morning tea run... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 562 страници
...hatred to a parson's gown, The sight will put her in a s»oon ; For conversation well endued, She calls it witty to be rude ; And, placing raillery in railing, Will tell aloud your greatest failing ; Nor make a scruple to expose Your bandy leg, or crooked nose ; Can at her morning tea run o'er The... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 560 страници
...hatred to a parson's gown, The sight will put her in a swoon { For conversation well endued, She calls it witty to be rude ; And, placing raillery in railing. Will tell aloud your greatest tailing ; Nor make a scruple to expose Your bandy leg, or crooked nose ; Can at her morning toa run... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 832 страници
...hatred to a parson's gown, The sight will put her in a swoon $ For conversation well endued, She calls it witty to be rude ; And, placing raillery in railing, Will tell aloud your greatest failing ; Nor make a scruple to expose Your bandy leg, or crooked nose ; Can at her morning tea run o'er The... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 534 страници
...hatred to a parson's gown, The sig-ht will put her in a swoon ; For conversation well endued, She calls it witty to be rude ; And, placing raillery in railing, Will tell aloud your greatest failing ; Nor make a scruple to expose Your bandy leg, or crooked nose ; Can at her morning tea run o'er The... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 524 страници
...hatred to a parson's gown, The sight will put her in a swoon ; For conversation well endued, She calls it witty to be rude ; And, placing raillery in railing, Will tell aloud your greatest failing ; Nor make a scruple to expose Your bandy leg, or crooked nose ; Can at her morning tea run o'er The... | |
| 1819 - 800 страници
...with a coxcomb sit. And take his nonsense all for wit. — For conversation well endued, She calls it witty to be rude, And placing raillery in railing, Will tell aloud your greatest failing — In party furious to her power, A bitter Whig, or Tory sour ; Her arguments directly tend, Against... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 268 страници
...hatred to a parson's gown, The sight will put her in a swoon ; For conversation well endued, She calls it witty to be rude ; And placing raillery in railing, Will tell aloud your greatest failing ; Nor makes a scruple to expose Your bandy leg or crooked nose ; Can at her morning tea run o'er The... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 страници
...hatred to a parson's gown, The sight would put her in a swoon ; For conversation well endued, She calls whole worlds of reason, life and sense, In one close system of benevolence : Happier as kind ; Nor make a scruple to expose Your bandy leg, or crooked nose ; Can nt her morning tea run o'er The... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1834 - 242 страници
...of lively nonsense, for she called not in well-bred tone, and he heard her not. In his litead eame that counterfeit, who thinks it witty to be rude :...caricatures, and they were party caricatures. , " Capital I" Lady Bearcroft, however, pronounced them, as she spread all upon the table for applause — but... | |
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