| William Temple - 1814 - 606 pagina’s
...at the greatest ?. and the best, but like a froward child, that must \ be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over. \ AN ESSAY UPON THE ANCIENT AND MODERN LEARNING*. Juvat antiques accederej "antes. WHOEVER converses... | |
| Sir William Temple - 1814 - 580 pagina’s
...life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is AN ESSAY UPON THE ANCIENT AND MODERN LEARNING*. Juvat antiques accederef antes. WHOEVER converses much... | |
| William Burdon - 1820 - 1026 pagina’s
...themselves, tho' nobody hurts them. <' When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with...till it falls asleep, and then the care is over." Ditto, p, 429. VP. 76. " Books of instruction." The principal end of poetry, and all books of imagination,... | |
| William Burdon - 1820 - 460 pagina’s
...done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played 352 with and humored a little to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over." i Ditto, p. 429. P. 76. " Books of instruction." The principal end of poetry, and all books of imagination,... | |
| 1821 - 384 pagina’s
...life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over. V. AN ESSAY UPON THE ANCIENT AND MODERN LEARNING.* .limit antiques accederef antes. WHOEVER converses... | |
| John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pagina’s
...is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with, and humoured a little to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over. — Sir TV. Temple. cxxv. Jesting, when not used upon improper matter, in an unfit manner, with excessive... | |
| Laconics - 1829 - 352 pagina’s
...is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with, and humoured a little to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.—Sir W. Temple. cxxv. Jesting, when not used upon improper matter, in an unfit manner, with... | |
| Samuel Felton - 1830 - 270 pagina’s
...life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over." His garden was one of his last delights. He knew what kind of life was best fitted to make a man's... | |
| 1832 - 524 pagina’s
...life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over." His garden was one of his last delights. He knew what kind of life was best fitted to make a man's... | |
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1832 - 228 pagina’s
...life is at the greatest and the best but like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over."* * Sir William Temple. (Fropi tlio Edinburgh RevieW—No. CIV.) A Comparative View of the Social Life... | |
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