| Charles Herbert Sylvester - Children's literature - 1922 - 530 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,—... | |
| CHARLES H. SYLVESTER CHROUGH BOOKLAND - 1922 - 530 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,—... | |
| Edwin Greenlaw, William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - American literature - 1922 - 600 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 one he would have proved a glutton, a sloven, an obsti10 nate, disagreeable animal — wallowing in all manner of filthy conversation — from these... | |
| William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - Readers - 1922 - 676 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 one he would have proved a glutton, a sloven, an obsti10 nate, disagreeable animal — wallowing in all manner of filthy conversation — from these... | |
| Sir Arthur Everett Shipley - Biology - 1923 - 240 pages
...how meek he Heth 1 — wouldst thou have had this innocent grow up to the grossness and indocility which too often accompany maturer swinehood? Ten to...came with timely care — his memory is odoriferous — he hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure — and for such a tomb... | |
| William Allan Neilson, Ashley Horace Thorndike - English literature - 1924 - 500 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 sausage — he hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure... | |
| George William McClelland - English Literature (selections: Extracts, Etc.) - 1925 - 1180 pages
...innocent grow up to the grossness and indocility which too often accompany maturer swinehood? Ten to ore ell as those to write. Let such teach others who themselves excel, his memory is odoriferous — no clown curseth, while his stomach half rejecteth, the rank bacon —... | |
| 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—... | |
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