 Inquireth if you have had your arms done on vellum yet; and did not know, till lately, that such-and-such had been the crest of the family. His memory is unseasonable; his compliments perverse; his talk a trouble; his stay pertinacious; and when he goeth...  Spirit of the English Magazines - Sivu 1661824Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Charles Lamb - 1879 - 672 sivua
...crest of the family. His memory is unseasonable, his compliments perverse, his talk a trouble, his stay pertinacious ; and when he goeth away, you dismiss...with the other ; you may pass him off tolerably well ; but your indigent she-relative is hopeless. "He is an old humourist," you may say, " and affects... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 sivua
...crest of the family. His memory is unseasonable ; his compliments perverse ; his talk a trouble: his they should love another." Who can read the account...disciple took her to his own home," without havin pas's him off tolerably well ; but your indigent «herelative is hopeless. '• He is an old humourist,''... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1879 - 454 sivua
...crest of the family. His memory is unseasonable ; his compliments perverse ; his talk a trouble ; his stay pertinacious ; and when he goeth away, you dismiss...Poor Relation. You may do something with the other ; yon may pass him off tolerably well ; but your indigent she-relative is hopeless, "He is an old humorist,"... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 576 sivua
...His memory is unseasonable ; his compliments perverse ; his talk a trouble; his stay pertinaeious ; hat I thin 2m/ mav do something with the other; you may pa/s him off tolerably well ; but your indigent sherelative... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 826 sivua
...unseasonable, his compliments perverse, his talk a trouble, his ntay pertinacious ; and when he goeth away, yon dismiss his chair Into a corner as precipitately as...with the other ; you may pass him off tolerably well ; but. your indigent she-relative us hopeless. ' He is an old humorist,' you may nay, • and affects... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 sivua
...crest of the family. His memory is unseasonable; his compliments perverse; his talk a trouble ; his stay pertinacious ; and when he goeth away, you dismiss...as possible, and feel fairly rid of two nuisances. I do not know how, upon a subject which I began with treating half seriously, I should have fallen... | |
 | 1881 - 578 sivua
...crest of the family. His memory is unseasonable ; his compliments perverse ; his talk a trouble ; his d dining after dusk, and waited for the flavour till...smoking man ; by the glimmering of tho left ashes, ; but your indigent sherelative is hopeless. " He is an old humorist," you may say, "and affects to... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1882 - 464 sivua
...the family. His memory is unseasonable ; his compliments are perverse ; his talk is a trouble ; his stay pertinacious ; and when he goeth away, you dismiss...with the other ; you may pass him off tolerably well ; but your indigent she-relative is hopeless. " He is an old humourist," you may say, " and affects... | |
 | Edward Moxon (and co.) - 1882 - 580 sivua
...crest of the family. His memory is unseasonable ; his compliments perverse ; his talk a trouble ; his stay pertinacious ; and when he goeth away, you dismiss...with the other; you may pass him off tolerably well ; but your indigent she-relative is hopeless. " He is an old humourist," you may say, " and affects... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1883 - 612 sivua
...window-curtains. . . . His memory is unseasonable; his compliments perverse; his talk a trouble; his stay pertinacious; and when he goeth away, you dismiss...as possible, and feel fairly rid of two nuisances. The reputation of William Makepeace Thackeray as a humorist is second only to his reputation as a writer... | |
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