| Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - 524 страница
...acquieit los leones vence Vence una muger hennosa 0 el de flaco averguence 0 ella di ser mas furiosa. 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. TRANSLATION OF THE FOLLOWING LINES AT THE END OF BAEETTl'g EASY PHRASEOLOGY.-—... | |
| John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 страница
...[Johnson continued. Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.1 Bosweirs Life of Johnson. An. 1784. If the man who turnips cries Cry not when his father dies, 'T is a proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father. Johnsoniana. Piozzi, 30. A good hater.... | |
| John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 страница
...find you an understanding. Ibid. An. 1784. Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.2 Ibid. An. 1784. If the man who turnips cries Cry not when his father dies, 'T is a proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father. Johnsoniana, Piossi, 30. A good hater.... | |
| 1876 - 904 страница
...cries, using two different words, as if they meant the same thing, because they are written alike: — " 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." I Thus the boys amused themselves while the last days of tho "half"... | |
| 1877 - 362 страница
...whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak. — such was the process. SHAKESPERE, Otlullo. — 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. — Johrwoniana. — It is a wise FATHER that knows his own child. SHAKESPERE,... | |
| John Bartlett - 1878 - 896 страница
...find you an understanding. Ibid. AH. 1784. Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.8 Ibid. An. 1784. 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. Johnsoniana. Pimzi, 30. A good hater. ibid. Pimzi, 39. Books that you... | |
| 1878 - 802 страница
...occasion is abundantly shown by many an improvised stanza, of which the following is a good example : 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. Here is a play on the double sense of the verb " to cry," which rises... | |
| English epigrams - 1878 - 464 страница
...we owe the amusing burlesque of epigram as then in vogue, contained in the following quatrain : — If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'T is a proof that he would rather Have a turnip than a father. Goldsmith wrote less of this description... | |
| Hyde Parker - 1879 - 140 страница
...yet another night ; But he who wears them parties twain May never wear the same again. ANON. * * TF the man who turnips cries Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis a proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father. JOHNSON. (IDEM LATIXE REDDITUM.) TV TANE ego limaces hortum per forte... | |
| Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 348 страница
...mere play of words," added he, "and you might as well say that If the man who turnips cries, Cries not when his father dies, 'Tis a proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father." And this humor is of the same sort with which he answered the friend... | |
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