 | Godfrey Golding - 1877 - 268 σελίδες
...Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse ; Ere fancy you consult, consult your purse. And again — Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece... | |
 | Isaac Newton Carleton - 1878 - 140 σελίδες
...schoolmaster, we must raise those of the recruiting sergeant. E. Everett, Mass., 1794-1865. 87. Pride. Pride is as loud a beggar as "Want, and a great deal more saucy. "When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece... | |
 | Edwin Troxell Freedley - 1878 - 384 σελίδες
...try to borrow some. A child and a fool imagine twenty shillings and twenty years can never be spent. Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more sancy. Rather go to bed suppcrless than rise in debt. The borrower is a slave to the lender, and the... | |
 | W. N. Bryant - 1879 - 194 σελίδες
...oversee workmen is to leave them with your purse open He that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing. Pride ;s as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow. If you will not In ar reason,... | |
 | Phebe Lankester - 1880 - 270 σελίδες
...Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse : Ere fancy you consult, consult your purse.' And again, ' Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy.' When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece;... | |
 | Thomas Louis Haines, Levi W. Yaggy - 1881 - 672 σελίδες
...a mixture of insensibility and ill-nature, in which it is hard to say which has the largest share. Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. Knavery and pride are often united; the Spartan boy was dishonest enough to steal a fox, but proud... | |
 | 1882 - 630 σελίδες
...' Kond pride of dress is sure a very curse ; Ere fancy you consult, consult your purse.' And again, 'Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy.' When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may. be all of a piece;... | |
 | William Carew Hazlitt - 1882 - 586 σελίδες
...Three Ladies of London, 1590, Hazlitt's Dodsley, vi. Pride had rather go out of the way than go behind. Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. Pride is the sworn enemy to content. Pride, joined with many virtues, chokes them all. Pride may lurk... | |
 | sir Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave - 1882 - 250 σελίδες
...Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse : Ere fancy you consult, consult your purse. And again, " Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy." When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece... | |
 | George Savile Marquis of Halifax - 1912 - 300 σελίδες
...Beggars in fine Cloaths (out of a proportionable Respect to their Quality) ought to be hanged. 10. That Pride is as loud a Beggar as Want, and a great deal more Sawcy. 11. That a Prince, who will give more to Importunity than Merit, had as good set out a Proclamation... | |
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And again, Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but Poor Dick says, It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy... 
