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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... "
The Quarterly Review - Page 470
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Essex Institute Historical Collections, Volume 22

Essex Institute - 1885 - 336 pages
...Jackson, daughter of Stephen & Frances D. Palmer, who died Dec. 25, 1837, aged 3 years & 9 months. Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade, Death came with timely care, The opening bud to heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there. Frances Ann, daughter of Stephen & Frances...
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Studies in English Literature: Being Typical Selections of British and ...

William Swinton - 1886 - 690 pages
...cradle, how meek he lieth ! — wouldst thou have had this innocent grow up to the grossness 165 and indocility which too often accompany maturer swinehood...snatched away "Ere sin could blight, or sorrow fade, 170 Death came with timely care." His memory is odoriferous ; no clown curseth, while his stomach half...
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Bryant, and His Friends: Some Reminiscences of the Knickerbocker Writers

James Grant Wilson - 1886 - 484 pages
...in one of the most beautiful epitaphs ever written — that on a new-born infant, by Bishop Lowth : 'Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade, Death came with timely care, The op'ning bud to Heaven conveyed, And bade it blossom there! But if it be a blessingor sign of Divine...
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Studies in English Literature: Being Typical Selections of British and ...

William Swinton - 1887 - 686 pages
...conversation. From these sins he is happily snatched away " Ere sin could blight, or sorrow fade, i70 Death came with timely care." His memory is odoriferous;...stomach half rejecteth, the rank bacon; no coal-heaver boljeth him in reeking sausages ; he hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 172

1887 - 992 pages
...I bore. Physicians were ш vain. You will not need telling that Lamb referred to the quatrain, — Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade Death came with timely care, to which Coleridge had allotted a whole page of his former edition, and of which he had indeed shown...
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Macmillan's Magazine, Volumes 54-55

1887 - 548 pages
...I bore, Physicians were in vain.' " You will not need telling that Lamb referred to the quatrain, " Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade Death came with timely care," to which Coleridge had allotted a whole page of his former edition, and of which he had indeed shown...
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The Everyday Book ; Or, a Guide to the Year: Describing the Popular ...

William Hone - 1888 - 876 pages
...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...odoriferous — no clown curseth, while his stomach half rejec'eth, the rank bacon — no coalhtaver bolteth him in reeking sausages — he hath a fair sepulchre...
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A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig

Charles Lamb - 1888 - 64 pages
...sloven, an obstinate, disagreeable animal— wallowing in all manner of filthy conversation—from these sins he is happily snatched away — Ere sin...blight, or sorrow fade, Death came with timely care — YE JUDGE SPECULATETH. UPON ROAST PIG. his memory is odoriferous — no clown curseth, while his...
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Great Men at Play, Volume 2

Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer - 1889 - 358 pages
...is well that the pig is seen in the dish, his second cradle ; for, had he been allowed to grow up, ten to one he would have proved a glutton, a sloven,...blight or sorrow fade, Death came with timely care. Southey, too, boasts himself as one — Who, in all forms Of pork, baked, roasted, toasted, boil'd...
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The Essays of Elia: 1st Series

Charles Lamb - 1890 - 246 pages
...second cradle, how meek ho lieth ! — wouldst thou have had this innocent grow up to the grossness and indocility which too often accompany maturer swinehood...care — " His memory is odoriferous — no clown cnrseth, while his stomach half rejecteth, the rank hacon — no coal-heaver bolteth him in reeking...
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