Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five: For howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty-five. He that ever hopes to thrive Must begin by thirty-five; And all who wisely wish to wive Must look on Thrale at thirty-five. Every Saturday - Страница 691874Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1786 - 314 страници
...at thirty-five. DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON. 165 " And now (faid he, as I was writing them down), you may fee what it is to come for poetry to a Dictionary-maker ; you may obferve that the rhymes run in alphabetical order exactly." And fo they do. Mr. Johnfon did indeed... | |
| 1786 - 800 страници
...wive, Muft look on Thrale at thirty-five. ' And now (faid he, as I was writing them down ) you may fee what it is to come for poetry to a dictionary-maker ; you may obferve that the rhymes run alphabetical order exa<5lly.' And fo they do. Mr. Johnfon did indeed pofTefs... | |
| Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1826 - 250 страници
...; And all who wisely wish to wive Must look on Thrale at thirty-five. " And now (said he, as I was writing them down) you may see what it is to come...run in alphabetical order exactly." And so they do. .Mr. Johnson did indeed possess an almost Tuscan power of improvisation: when he called to my daughter,... | |
| James Boswell - 1831 - 586 страници
...; And all who wisely wish to wive Must look on Thrale at thirty-five. " And now," said he, as I was writing them down, " you may see what it is to come...run in alphabetical order exactly." And so they do. Dr. Johnson did indeed possess an almost Tuscan power of improvisation.] [He was much pleased Hawk>... | |
| James Boswell - 1831 - 690 страници
...; And all who wisely wish to wive Must look on Thrale at thirty-five. " And now," said he, as I was writing them down, " you may see what it is to come...run in alphabetical order exactly." And so they do. Dr. Johnson did indeed possess an almost Tuscan power of improvisation.] [He was much pleased Hawk.... | |
| James Boswell - 1835 - 366 страници
...And all who wisely wish to wive Must look on Thrale at thirty-five." " And now," said he, as I was writing them down, " you may see what it is to come...run in alphabetical order exactly." And so they do. Dr. Johnson did indeed possess an almost Tuscan power of improvisation. — FIozzI. — He was much... | |
| James Boswell - 1843 - 588 страници
...thirty-five; And all who wisely wish to wive Must look on Thrule at thirty-live. " And now," said he, as I was writing them down, " you may see what it is to come...run in alphabetical order exactly." And so they do. Dr. Johnson did indeed possess an almost TusHnvk. can P°wer °i improvisation.] [He Apoph. was much... | |
| James Boswell - 1844 - 370 страници
...And all who wisely wish to wive Must look on Thrale at thirty-five." " And now," said he, as I was writing them down, " you may see what it is to come...run in alphabetical order exactly." And so they do. Dr. Johnson did indeed possess an almost Tuscan power of improvisation. — PIOzzI. — He was much... | |
| 1008 страници
...Thrale at thirty-five.' '" And now,' said the Doctor, as the lady was jotting down those couplets, 'you may see what it is to come for poetry to a dictionarrgallantry. Quite deliberately he could »ay, and did say/" I have often thought th.it if... | |
| Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1861 - 572 страници
...And all who wisely wish to wive Must look on Thrale at thirty-five.' " ' And now,' said he, as I was writing them down, ' you may see what it is to come...run in alphabetical order exactly." And so they do." Byron's estimate of life at the same age, is somewhat different : — " Too old for youth — too young,... | |
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