 | John Watkins - 1808 - 768 strani
...letters, '& ! P, (Jye ! Rowc}. This being told to Dennis, the critick, he said, he was sure that the man who could make so vile a pun, would not scruple to pick pockets. 2 A JOSEPH JOSEPH ADDISON. XT is not a little extraordinary, that the contemporaries of this... | |
 | 1889 - 562 strani
...the authority of the Gentleman's Magazine, voL ii. p. 324, is credited with this similar phrase, " A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket." Which of tbe twain, I aak, was the author, Dr. Johnson or Dennis ? Again, in the same number of the... | |
 | 1871 - 692 strani
...have known him to turn out such wretched work as to make one feel like repeating the old saying : " A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a .pocket." He is reprobate ; and it is a great question whether he ever had mind enough to be responsible for... | |
 | 1871 - 520 strani
...have known him to turn out such wretched work as to make one feel like repeating the old saying : " A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple lo pick a pocket." He is reprobate ; and it is a great question whether he ever had mind enough to... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 strani
...Beaumont and Fletcher, Knig ht of Malta, Act i. Sc. I, Dennis. — Pomfret. 239 JOHN DENNIS. 1657-1734. A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.1 They will not let my play run ; and yet they steal my thunder.2 JOHN POMFRET. 1667-1703. We... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 strani
...of Hope, Part ii. Line 378. ' Compare Beaumont and Fletcher, ante, p. 157. JOHN DENNIS. 1657-1734. A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.1 They will not let my play run ; and yet they steal my thunder.1 JOHN POMFRET. 1667-1703. We... | |
 | 1877 - 362 strani
...And PULPIT, drum ecclesiastick, Was beat with fist iustead of a stick. — BUTLER, Hudibras. Pun. — A man who could make so vile a PUN would not scruple to pick a pocket. — J. DENNIS, 1734. — People that make PUNS are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1881 - 892 strani
...between. Blair, Tl1e Grave, Line 588. Like angel-visits, few and far between. JOHN DENNIS. 1657-1734. A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket. 1 They will not let my play run ; and yet they steal my thunder.* JOHN POMFRET. 1667-1703. We bear... | |
 | 1882 - 722 strani
...quills upon the fretful porcupine." . 1 The words of his mouth are smoother than butter." ' He who would make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket." . ' Gone forever." ' A good portly man, i' faith." ' Were but thy brains are brilliant as thy hair."... | |
 | Edwin Brown Graham - 1883 - 366 strani
...asked the doctor before he thought. " Bill Poster," said Jack grinning and apologetically adding, " ' A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.'" " Is it true that Cassius Bowman gave a quarter to learn who sent the boy out with the bills ? Is he... | |
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A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket. 
