 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1868 - 570 страници
...not recollect it. Finally, I wound up with Sir William Temple, " When all is done, human life is, nt the greatest and the best, but like a froward child,...till it falls asleep, and then the care is over." I think 7ny conversation had, as was natural, a cheering effect for the time. He thanked me very much... | |
 | 1868 - 884 страници
...the last words of his last essay. ' When all is done,' he says, ' human life is at the greatest and best but like a froward child, that must be played...till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.' This is taking the battle of life very easily, but it is not in such manner that great men or true... | |
 | 1868 - 884 страници
...the last words of his last essay. ' When all is done,' ho says, ' human life is at the greatest and best but like a froward child, that must be played...till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.' This is taking the battle of life very easily, but it is not in such manner that great raen or true... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1868 - 378 страници
...values till we are dead, or of making speeches which, when dead, the world hastens to forget. " When all is done, human life is at the greatest and the best...like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over." * * Sir William... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1871 - 484 страници
...because they cannot be quiet themselves, though nobody hurts them." " When all is done (he concludes), human life is at the greatest and the best but Like a froward child, that must be played with, and humored a little, to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over." BARBARA S . ON... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1873 - 516 страници
...cannot, without making away with myself." When all is done, this is the conclusion of Sir William Temple, human life is at the greatest and the best but like...quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over. The pasteboard triumph and the cavalcade may be the toy of a solemn don who shakes his head at sonneteers... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1874 - 876 страници
...in the last words of his last eav. ' When all is done,' he says, ' human life is it tie greatest and best but like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured & little to kw? it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the eve a over.' This is taking the tattle... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1875 - 478 страници
...dead — or of making laws and speeches, which, when dead, the world hastens to forget. " When all is done, human life is at the greatest and the best...till it falls asleep, and then the care is over." * * Sir William Temple. ON THE PASSION FOE THE UNIVERSAL. IN earlier youth I was smitten by that ambition... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1875 - 618 страници
...because they cannot be quiet themselves, though nobody hurts them.?< "When all is done, (he concludes,) human life is at the greatest and the best but like...till it falls asleep, and then the care is over." BARBARA SON the noon of the 14th of November, 1743 or 4, I forget which it was, just as the clock had... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1876 - 740 страници
...because they cannot be quiet themselves, though nobody hurts them." " When all is done" (he concludes), "human life is at the greatest and the best but like...till it falls asleep, and then the care is over." of Snic (Ocnius. (The Nciu Afonthty Miig.izine, May, 1826.) [As originally published in the AVry Monthly,... | |
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When all is done, (he concludes,) human 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. 
