 | William Davenport Adams - 1880 - 362 страница
...With his hat in his hand ; and when, again, he burlesques the prevailing style of epigram, in — If a man who turnips cries Cry not when his father dies, "Tis a proof that he would rather . Eeally, for the sake of that, one is incliued to forgive the Doctor for ever having... | |
 | Alexander Fergusson - 1882 - 618 страница
...great man, is perhaps only to be paralleled by another utterance of his hardly less profound — " 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." Upon this discussion Mr Croker is reported to have " neatly observed,"... | |
 | H. L. Sidney Lear - 1882 - 200 страница
...flutt'ring in a row, Befringe the rails of Bedlam and Soho ! POPE. CCXXXV. STERN LOGIC. IF the boy who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis a proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father. DR. JOHNSON. The Tragedy of Smug the Smith. 127 CCXXXVI. NOSCE TE IP... | |
 | 1883 - 394 страница
...it was impossible to number them, as " every dog has his own day." *• + * If the man who parsnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis a proof that he had rather Have a parsnip than his father. » — Dr. Johnstn. * * * " It is very hard, my lord," said a convicted... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 страница
...not obliged to find you an understanding. An. 1784. Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.4 Ibid. 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. Johtuoniana. Piozti, 30. A good hater.... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 страница
...south-west side. 2766 Sutler : Hudibras. Pt. 1. Canto i. Line 65. If a man who turnips cries, Cries not when his father dies, 'Tis a proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father. 2767 Dr. Johnson : Johnsoniana. fiozzi. Line 30 \ ONDON. Here malice,... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi, Richard Cumberland - 1884 - 490 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... | |
 | James Parton - 1884 - 734 страница
...that king, God bless us all, is quite another thing." DM SOME LINES OF LOPEZ DE VEQA. DR. JOHN-SOU. Lr the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis a proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father. ON A FDLn-LENGTH PORTRAIT OF BEAU MABSH Placed between the but* of Newton... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 страница
...a mere play of words, you might as well say, he exclaimed, that If the man who turnips cries Cries not when his father dies, 'Tis a proof that he had rather Have a turnip than a father. ' A friend commending the line Who rules o'er freemen should himself be... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1884 - 472 страница
...God bless us all, is quite another thing." EPIGRAM OF DR. JOHNSON. On «Some Lines Of Lopez De Vega. If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tie a proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father. EPIGRAM OF LORD CHESTERFIELD. On A Full-Length... | |
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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. 
