 | George William McClelland - English literature - 1925 - 1178 pages
...cradle, how meek he lieth!—wouldst thou have had this innocent grow up to the grossness and indocility pride affects a patron's name, Yet absent, wounds...fame; Who can your merit selfishly approve, And show t animal—wallowing in all manner of filthy conversation—from these sins he is happily snatched away—... | |
 | William Joseph Long - English literature - 1925 - 844 pages
...how meek he lieth ! — wouldst thou have had this innocent grow up to the grossness and indocility which too often accompany maturer swinehood? Ten to one he would have proved a glutton, a 10 sloven, an obstinate, disagreeable animal — wallowing in all manner of filthy conversation —... | |
 | Carl Henry Grabo - English prose literature - 1927 - 544 pages
...how meek he lieth! — wouldst thou have had this innocent grow up to the grossness and indocility which too often accompany maturer swinehood? Ten to...rejecteth, the rank bacon — no coal-heaver bolteth him in reeking sausages — he hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure... | |
 | Gerald Monsman - Biography & Autobiography - 1984 - 182 pages
...how meek he lieth! — wouldst thou have had this innocent grow up to the grossness and indocility which too often accompany maturer swinehood? Ten to...rejecteth, the rank bacon — no coalheaver bolteth him in reeking sausages — he hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure... | |
 | Gerald Monsman - Literary Collections - 1984 - 182 pages
...cradle, how meek he lieth!— wouldst thou have had this innocent grow up to the grossness and indocility which too often accompany maturer swinehood? Ten to...proved a glutton, a sloven, an obstinate, disagreeable animal—wallowing in all manner of filthy conversation—from these sins he is happily snatched away—... | |
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See him in the dish, his second cradle, how meek he lieth! - wouldst thou have had this innocent grow up to the grossness and indocility which too often accompany maturer swinehood? Ten to one he would have proved a glutton, a sloven, an obstinate, disagreeable... 
