 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
 | Daniel Defoe - 1905 - 332 halaman
...Ye true-born English now. The wonder which remains is at our pride, 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 'sa contradiction, In speech an irony, in fact a fiction ; A banter made to be a test to... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1905 - 666 halaman
...were a homogeneous race.' That paper humorously cites Defoe's ' True-Born Englishman' of his day : " ' 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. ******** Forgetting that themselves are... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1908 - 340 halaman
...Ye true-born English now. The wonder which remains is at our pride, 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 'sa contradiction, In speech an irony, in fact a fiction ; A banter made to be a test to... | |
 | Julian Willis Abernethy - 1916 - 604 halaman
...twisted into rhyme intended to allay the prejudice against King William as a foreigner, proving that — A true-born Englishman's a contradiction, In speech an irony, in fact a fiction. He next appeared with The Shortest Way with Dissenters, an ironical pamphlet suggesting to the government... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1917 - 756 halaman
...whole English nation, as then constituted, was the result of a mixture of various foreign elements. "For Englishmen to boast of generation Cancels their...and lampoons the nation; A true-born Englishman's u, contradiction, In speech an irony, in fact a fiction." Defoe's brief interval of prosperity was... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1922 - 154 halaman
...into the enemies' country ; he declared that there was no such thing as a true-born Englishman : — " A True-Born Englishman's a contradiction, In speech an irony, in fact a fiction. A metaphor intended to express A man akin to all the universe." He reminded his readers gleefully of... | |
 | 1924 - 502 halaman
...Reference is therein made to Daniel de Foe's pamphlet called The True-born Englishman : 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. Also No Roman now, no Britain does remain... | |
 | Otto Jespersen, David MacRitchie, William Henry Stevenson - 1924 - 44 halaman
...Reference is therein made to Daniel de Foe's pamphlet called The True-born Englishman : 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. Also No Roman now, no Britain does remain... | |
 | Arthur Stanley Turberville - 1926 - 602 halaman
...friends because they were foreigners, the point being that the Englishman came of a most composite race. A True-Born Englishman's a contradiction ! In speech an irony ! in fact, a fiction ! Again : The Pict and painted Britain [sic] treacherous Scot ; By hunger, theft, and rapine hither... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 halaman
...English now. The wonder which remains is at our pride, To value that which all wise men deride; 310 urn, In that state I came, return. 1650 THE WORLD I SAW Eternity the other night, Like Which those that use it justly ridicules; A metaphor intended to express, A man a-kin to all the universe.... | |
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