 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 - Seite 241von Maria Edgeworth - 1848Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1887 - 842 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Gerald Patrick Moriarty - 1893 - 402 Seiten
...hatred to a parson's gown, The sight would 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... | |
 | 1893 - 386 Seiten
...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 scandal... | |
 | 1905 - 408 Seiten
...hatred to a parson's gown, The sight would 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 scandal... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1910 - 424 Seiten
...hatred to a parson's gown, The sight would 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 scandal... | |
 | Carolyn Wells - 1923 - 804 Seiten
...hatred to a parson's gown, The sight would 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 scandal... | |
 | Audrey Bilger - 1998 - 268 Seiten
...that counterfeit, who thinks it witty to be rude: "And placing raillery in railing, / Will tell 76 aloud your greatest failing" — that vulgar imp yclept...with him a heap of coarse caricatures, and they were [political] party characters. (249) Here we have a full-fledged comic theory that takes a straightforward... | |
 | 2005 - 656 Seiten
...a play to laugh, or cry, But cannot tell the reason why: 77 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... | |
 | Mario Livio - 2005 - 367 Seiten
...entitled "The Furniture of a Woman's Mind." A few lines read: For conversation well endu'd, She calls it witty to be rude; And, placing raillery in railing, Will tell aloud your greatest failing. The story of the search for a formulaic solution to the quintic equation in the 250 years following... | |
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