 | United States. Congress - Law - 1825 - 738 pages
...any member who shall rise on this floor and pronounce a panegyric upon the Chief Magistrate. • " No! LET the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges ol'lhp knee, Where THRIFT may follow fawning!" PORTLAND RESOLUTIONS. The SPEAKER laid before the House... | |
 | Tertius T C. Kendrick - 1825 - 742 pages
...CHAP. V. " Nay, do not think I flatter: For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits, To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor I'o flattered ? No, let the candied tongue lick Absurd pomp, and crook the pregnant hinges of The knee,—where... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1825 - 936 pages
...revenue bast, but thy good spirits, To feed and clothe thee Т Why should the poor IK flatter'd Т No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant 1Í binges of the knee, Where thrift may follow fawuiitg. Dost thou hear? Since my dear soul was mistress... | |
 | English drama - 1826 - 508 pages
...advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast, but thy (food spirits, To feed and clothe thee 1 Why should the poor be flattered ? No, let the candied...hinges of the knee, Where thrift may follow fawning. Dost thou hear? Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice. And could of men distinguish, her election... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 540 pages
...player contemporary with the poet. For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast, but thy good spirits, To feed, and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flatter'd? No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp; And crook the pregnant 7 hinges of the knee,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 554 pages
...player contemporary with the poet. For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast, but thy good spirits, To feed, and clothe thee ? Why should the poor be flatter'd ? No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp ; And crook the pregnant7 hinges of the knee,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Dodd - 1827 - 362 pages
...That no revenue hast, but thy good spirits, To feed and clothe thee? Whv should the poor be flatter'd? No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp; And crook...hinges of the knee, Where thrift may follow fawning. Dost thou hear-? Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice, And could of men distinguish her election,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1827 - 658 pages
...MAN. ay, do not think I flatter: . For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast, but thy good spirits, To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flatter'd? No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp; And crook the pregnant^ hinges of the knee,... | |
 | Fiction - 1827 - 446 pages
...oppressor's wrong,' or the ' abuses of brief authority' ? or who has so severely stigmatized those who ' crook the pregnant hinges of the knee, where thrift may follow fawning'? Holding, moreover, that these Novels have done more for the advancement of liberality in matters both... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 452 pages
...even on the stage, as in the following passage from Hamlet. — Why should the poor be flatter'd ? No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp ; And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee, When thrift may follow fawnirg. A certain actor, in repeating these lines, bent the knee, and kissed... | |
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No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp ; And crook the pregnant ' hinges of the knee, Where thrift may follow fawning. Dost thou hear ? Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice, And could of men distinguish her election, She hath sealed thee... 
