 | EDWIN WATTS CHUBB - 1910 - 426 ページ
...when he was living on pennies himself. '' Eeader,'' pleads Elia in his Praise of Chimney Sweepers, "if thou meetest one of these small gentry in thy early rambles, it is good to give him a penny—it is better to give him a twopence." And then Lamb describes the choice and fragrant drink,... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1911 - 348 ページ
...stage direction in " Macbeth, where the "Apparition of child crowned with a tree in his hand rises." 1 Reader, if thou meetest one of these small gentry...him twopence. If it be starving weather, and to the 2s proper troubles of his hard occupation, a pair of kibed heels (no unusual accompaniment) be superadded,... | |
 | Robert Collyer - 1913 - 364 ページ
...their lesson of patience to mankind. Reader, if thou meetest one of these small gentry in thy morning rambles, it is good to give him a penny; it is better to give him two pence. I am by nature extremely susceptible of street affronts, yet I can endure the jocularity... | |
 | Hendrik Poutsma - 1914 - 730 ページ
...there were no game. Mrs. WARD , Marcella, I, 246. gentry, (in this application expressing contempt). Reader, if thou meetest one of these small gentry...thy early rambles, it is good to give him a penny. CH. LAMB, Es. of Elia, In Praise of Chimney-Sweepers. A woman should be very careful when one of these... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 944 ページ
...stage direction in Macbeth, where the "Apparition of a child crowned with a tree in his hand rises." [50 to give him two-pence. If it be starving weather, and to the proper troubles of his hard occupation,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1917 - 376 ページ
...stage direction in Macbeth, where the "Apparition of a child crowned with a tree in his hand rises." Reader, if thou meetest one of these small gentry...proper troubles of his hard occupation, a pair of kibed 2 heels (no unusual accompaniment) be superadded, the demand on thy humanity will surely rise to a... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1920 - 492 ページ
...stage direction in Macbeth,2 where the "Apparition of a child crowned with a tree in his hand rises." Reader, if thou meetest one of these small gentry...proper troubles of his hard occupation, a pair of kibed3 heels (no unusual accompaniment) be superadded, the demand on thy humanity will surely rise... | |
 | Tim Fulford, Debbie Lee, Peter J. Kitson - 2004 - 354 ページ
...corruptions. After he makes readers see the boys through the eyes of childhood, he addresses them directly - 'Reader, if thou meetest one of these small gentry...thy early rambles, it is good to give him a penny.' Charity, here, results not solely from pity but also from admiration. It will be an informal and personal... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1867 - 554 ページ
...anticipating the sun rise ?" Pleading on behalf of his little sable favourites, he exclaims : — " Reader, if thou meetest one of these small gentry...him a penny ; it is better to give him twopence." In literary matters his taste was similar. He had a great dislike for anything garish, or ad captandum.... | |
 | Ernest Rhys, Lloyd Vaughan - 1920 - 518 ページ
...child rned with a tree in his hand rises." :ader, if thou meetest one of these small gentry in thy ' rambles, it is good to give him a penny. It is better ive him two-pence. If it be starving weather, and to jroper troubles of his hard occupation, a pair... | |
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Reader, if thou meetest one of these small gentry in thy early rambles, it is good to give him a penny. It is better to give him twopence. 
