 To value that which all men else deride. For Englishmen to boast of generation Cancels their knowledge and lampoons the nation. A true-born Englishman's a contradiction, In speech an irony, in fact a fiction ; A banter made to be a test to fools, Which...  The True-born Englishman: A Satire - Halaman 18oleh Daniel Defoe - 1836 - 39 halamanTampilan utuh - Tentang buku ini
 | Edward Arber - 1883 - 714 halaman
...common Name for all. Fate jumbled them together, God knows how ! Whate'er they were, they 're True Born English now! The wonder which remains, is at our Pride,...Cancels their knowledge, and lampoons the nation ! A True Born Englishman 'sa contradiction ! In speech, an irony ! in fact, a fiction ! THE TRUE BORN ENGLISHMAN.... | |
 | William Mathews - 1877 - 360 halaman
...vain, ill-natured thing, an Englishman," and showed in limping verse, but unanswerable logic, that " A true-born Englishman's a contradiction— In speech an irony, in fact a fiction ; A metaphor invented to express A man AKIN to all the universe." Anything more motley and heterogeneous... | |
 | William Minton - 1879 - 192 halaman
...Englishman ; they were all the offspring of foreigners; what was more, of the scum of foreigners. " For Englishmen to boast of generation Cancels their knowledge, and lampoons the nation. A true-born Englishman 'sa contradiction, In speech an irony, in fact a fiction. * * * * And here begins the ancient... | |
 | 1871 - 612 halaman
...families descended, but from those who have invaded our shores in earlier times? As Mr. Defoe says — 'A true-born Englishman's a contradiction; In speech, an irony — in fact, a fiction ; A metaphor, invented to express A man akin to all the universe. ' 230 September 9, 1871.] 231 in a castle... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1880 - 328 halaman
...of the day, " A True-born Englishman," or as we now should say, England for the English ; nay — ' A TRUE-BORN ENGLISHMAN'S a contradiction : In speech an irony, in fact a fiction ; A metaphor, invented to express A man akin to all the universe." And he tells us, moreover, that, if... | |
 | George Hart - 1881 - 536 halaman
...inopportune, inasmuch it permits me to halt and make my tail- piece with the words of De Foe : — " A true-born Englishman's a contradiction, In speech...irony, in fact a fiction ; A banter made to be a test to fools, Which those that use it justly ridicules. A metaphor invented to express A man a-kin to all... | |
 | 1883 - 836 halaman
...they were all the offspring of foreigners ; what was more, of the scum of foreigners. " For Englishman to boast of generation Cancels their knowledge, and...contradiction, In speech an irony, in fact a fiction. *»**»» And here begins the ancient pedigree That so exalts our poor nobility. "Tis that from some... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1883 - 612 halaman
...rhymed doggerels, and was intended as a satire upon those who ridiculed the Dutch origin of William III. For Englishmen to boast of generation Cancels their knowledge, and lampoons the nation. A true-born Englishman 'sa contradiction, In speech an irony, in fact a fiction. ******* These are the heroes that... | |
 | 1884 - 676 halaman
...since in a steady flow of peaceful immigration, that more than justifies the dictum of Defoe : — A true-born Englishman's a contradiction, In speech an irony, in fact a fiction. That these heterogeneous elements have become to some extent fused into uniformity of character, is... | |
 | 1886 - 672 halaman
...was of gypsy origin without proving. himself ignorant of established facts. Before tells us that, " A true-born Englishman's a contradiction, In speech...; A banter made to be a test of fools, Which those who use it justly ridicules; A metaphor intended to express A man akin to all the universe." But no... | |
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