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‘Yes (said he) as a plate of marmalade would improve a pan of sirreverence.’
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If I cry a sirreverence, and you take it for honey, make the best of your bargain.
The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 07 John Dryden 1665
yarb commented on the word sirreverence
I argued, on the contrary, that those plebeians who discovered such eagerness to imitate the dress and equipage of their superiors, would likewise, in time, adopt their maxims and their manners, be polished by their conversation, and refined by their example; but when I appealed to Mr Quin, and asked if he did not think that such an unreserved mixture would improve the whole mass? 'Yes (said he) as a plate of marmalade would improve a pan of sirreverence.'
- Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (Melford to Phillips), 1771
January 3, 2009
yarb commented on the word sirreverence
Isn't there a shit-list somewhere on which this belongs?
January 3, 2009
mnicol commented on the word sirreverence
human excrement
“…when I appealed to Mr Quin, and asked if he did not think that
such an unreserved mixture would improve the whole mass? 'Yes
(said he) as a plate of marmalade would improve a pan of
sirreverence.'” - The expedition of Humphry Clinker by Tobias Smollett (1721-1771)
June 23, 2009