 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 страница
...author what he thinks of his work is put to the torture and is not obliged to speak the truth. 5179 h snow. 4789 A Shropshire Lad When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, 'Give crown Have a turnip than his father. 5180 Your manuscript is both good and original; but the parts that are... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 404 страница
...hypocrite in his pleasures. 2164 Every man has, some time in his life, an ambition to be a wag. 2165 If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, "lis a proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father. 2166 Your manuscript is both good and... | |
 | Hesther Lynch Piozzi - 2006 - 314 страница
...manner as the lion does. Tis a mere play of words/' added he, "and you might as well say that V\ I If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis a proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father."' And this humour is of the same sort with which he answered the friend... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells, Frederick Lewis Allen - 1916 - 1064 страница
...Dr. Johnson was the bad old man of the English family, and I do not suppose that anybody will agree that If the man who turnips cries Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis a proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father. A possible sentiment in an older generation, but sentiments, like generations,... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells, Frederick Lewis Allen - 1916 - 1078 страница
...Dr. Johnson was the bad old man of the English family, and I do not suppose that anybody will agree that If the man who turnips cries Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis a proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father. A possible sentiment in an older generation, but sentiments, like generations,... | |
 | Hesther Lynch Piozzi - 2000 - 270 страница
...the same manner as the lion does: 'Tis a mere play of words (added he), and you might as well say, that If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis a proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father." And this humour is of the same sort with which he answered the friend... | |
 | 1943 - 154 страница
...paviours cry, "God bless you, sir!" and lay their rammers by. ABEL EVANS (1679-1737) The Turnip Crier IF the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis a proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father. SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784) Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned... | |
 | W. J. Thorold, Arthur Hornblow, Perriton Maxwell, Stewart Beach - 1927 - 880 страница
...perfectly willing to concede this by no means new theory, I flatly denythat the author has proved it. "If the man who turnips cries, cry not when his father dies, 'tis a proof that he had rather have a turnip than his father" — so sang Johnson two centuries ago, and to this day we make deductions... | |
 | Manchester Literary Club - 1900 - 598 страница
...a toper. We mentioned to P. Expeditus those verses which Dr. Johnson burlesqued from Lope de Vega : If the man who turnips cries Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis a proof that he would rather Have a turnip than his father. When next we saw him he had given a new and ingenious turn... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1898 - 898 страница
...very subtle fallacy. The play upon the word ' loss ' reminds me of Johnson's famous epigram — If a man who ' turnips ' cries Cry not when his father dies, Tis a proof that he would rather Have a tin nip than his father. The fact is, man is a social animal, and when something... | |
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If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis a proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father. 
