Examples of usage Mess of pottage

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esau , mess of pottage, jan victors.


swift , byron use phrase satirically: thou sold st thy birthright, esau! mess / thou shouldst have gotten more, or eaten less. hindu nationalist v. d. savarkar borrowed biblical phrase, along quotations shakespeare, pamphlet hindutva (1923), celebrated hindu culture , identity, asking whether indians willing disown seed, forswear fathers , sell birthright mess of pottage .


perhaps famous use in american literature henry david thoreau: perhaps more jealous respect freedom. feel connection , obligation society still slight , transient. slight labors afford me livelihood, , allowed extent serviceable contemporaries, yet commonly pleasure me, , not reminded necessity. far successful. foresee if wants should increased, labor required supply them become drudgery. if should sell both forenoons , afternoons society, appear do, sure me there nothing left worth living for. trust shall never sell birthright mess of pottage. wish suggest man may industrious, , yet not spend time well. there no more fatal blunderer consumes greater part of life getting living.


another prominent instance of using phrase in american fiction james weldon johnson s famous protagonist ex-coloured man who, retrospectively reflecting upon life black man passing white, concludes has sold birthright mess of pottage .


by conventional spoonerism, overly propagandistic writer said have sold birthright pot of message. terry pratchett has character sergeant colon in feet of clay, after nobby of watch has guessed phrase “a spot of massage.” theodore sturgeon had 1 of characters h. g. wells in 1948 short story unite , conquer; roger lancelyn green (in 1962) ascribed professor nevill coghill, merton professor of english literature @ university of oxford.


the phrase appears in myra brooks welch s poem touch of master s hand, in mess of pottage — glass of wine — game stand such petty worldly pursuits, contrasted life after spiritual awakening.








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