 Nature sent him into the world strong and lusty, in a thriving condition, wearing his own hair on his head, the proper branches of this reasoning vegetable, until the axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs, and left him a withered trunk:...  The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift... - Página 247por Jonathan Swift - 1812Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Edmund Gosse - 1924 - 440 páginas
...the axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs, and left him a withered trunk. He then flies to art, and puts on a periwig, valuing himself upon...broomstick pretend to enter the scene, proud of those 1 irchen spoils it never bore, and all covered with dust, though the sweepings of the finest lady's... | |
 | Guy Noel Pocock - 1925 - 268 páginas
...axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs, and left him a withered trunk ; he then flies to art, and puts on a periwig, valuing himself upon...bundle of hairs, all covered with powder, that never grow on his head ; but now should this our broomstick pretend to enter the scene, proud of those birchen... | |
 | Emile Pons - 1925 - 448 páginas
...trunk : he then aies to art, and pu1s on a periwig, valuing himself upon an unnatural bundle of hairs. that never grew on his head ; but now, should this our broomstick pretend to enter the scene, prond of those birchen spoils it never bore... we should be apt to ridicule and despise its vanity... | |
 | John Boynton Priestley - 1925 - 328 páginas
...the ax of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs, and left him a withered trunk : he then flies to art, and puts on a periwig ; valuing himself upon an unnatural bundle of hairs, covered with powder, that never grew on his head : but now should this our broomstick pretend to enter... | |
 | Carlo Formichi - 1924 - 578 páginas
...axe of intemperance has lopped off bis green boughs, and left him a withered trunk : he then flies to art, and puts on a periwig, valuing himself upon...of hairs (all covered with powder), that never grew on'his head; but now, should this our broomstick pretend to enter the scene, proud of those hirchen... | |
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