Agathocles' pot — a Mordecai in your gate— a Lazarus at your door — a lion in your path — a frog in your chamber — a fly in your ointment — a mote in your eye — a triumph to your enemy— an apology to your friends — the one thing not... The Essays of Elia - Страница 134по Charles Lamb - 1907 - 226 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| Emma Miller Bolenius - 1915 - 366 страници
...garment, — a death's head at your banquet, — Agathocles' pot, — a Mordecai in your gate, — a Lazarus at your door, — a lion in your path, —...friends, — the one thing not needful, — the hail hi harvest, — the ounce of sour in a pound of sweet. Is that not an astounding procession of metaphors... | |
| Hugh Walker - 1915 - 400 страници
...garment, — a death's head at your banquet, — Agathocles" pot, — a Mordecai in your grate, — a Lazarus at your door, — a lion in your path, —...your eye, — a triumph to your enemy, — an apology q to your friends, — the one thing not needful, — the hail in harvest, — the ounce of sour in... | |
| Charles Alphonso Smith - 1916 - 302 страници
...and personally honest one. But he was always an alien, an unwelcome intrusion, a resented imposition, "a frog in your chamber, a fly in your ointment, a...in harvest, the ounce of sour in a pound of sweet." O. Henry found a silver lining in his presence but Governor Worth succeeded at last in having a more... | |
| Charles Alphonso Smith - 1916 - 312 страници
...and personally honest one. But he was always an alien, an unwelcome intrusion, a resented imposition, "a frog in your chamber, a fly in your ointment, a...in harvest, the ounce of sour in a pound of sweet." O. Henry found a silver lining in his presence but Governor Worth succeeded at last in having a more... | |
| Francis Patrick Donnelly - 1919 - 328 страници
...garment, — a death's head at your banquet, — Agathocles' pot, — a Mordecai in your gate, — a Lazarus at your door, — a lion in your path, —...needful, — the hail in harvest, — the ounce of sorrow in a pound of sweet. — LAMB : Essays of Elia. This multiplication of definitions, iterating... | |
| Joseph Morris Thomas, Frederick Alexander Manchester, Frank William Scott - 1922 - 614 страници
...garment, — a death's head at your banquet, — Agathocles' pot, — a Mordecai in your gate, — a Lazarus at your door, — a lion in your path, —...harvest, • — the ounce of sour in a pound of sweet." — Lamb. (B.) Study the figures in the passages quoted from Stevenson, page 309; from Hewlett, page... | |
| Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - 252 страници
...your garment, — a death's head at your banquet, — Agothocle's pot, — a Mordecai in your gate, a Lazarus at your door, — a lion in your path, —...harvest, — the ounce of sour in a pound of sweet. <t He is known by his knock. Your heart telleth you, " That is Mr. — ." A rap, between familiarity... | |
| Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - 284 страници
...your garment, — a death's head at your banquet, — Agothocle's pot, — a Mordecai in your gate, a Lazarus at your door, — a lion in your path, — a frog in your cham-V ber, — a fly in your ointment, — a mote in your eye, — a triumph to your enemy, an apology... | |
| George William McClelland - 1925 - 1178 страници
...your eye,—a triumph to your enemy, an apology to your friends,—the one thing not needful,—the you."That is Mr. ." A'rap, between familiarity and respect; that demands, and, at the same time, seems... | |
| Charles Townsend Copeland - 1926 - 1746 страници
...your garment,— a death's head at your banquet, — Agathocles' pot, — a Mordecai in your gate, — a Lazarus at your door, — a lion in your path, —...harvest, — the ounce of sour in a pound of sweet. ." A rap, between familiarity and respect ; that demands, and, at the same time, seems to despair of,... | |
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