 | 1868 - 884 страници
...done,' he says, ' human life is at the greatest and 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.' This is taking the battle of life very easily, but it is not in... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1868 - 570 страници
...is done, human life is, nt 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." I think 7ny conversation had, as was natural, a cheering effect... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1873 - 516 страници
...William Temple, 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. The pasteboard triumph and the cavalcade may be the toy of a solemn... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1875 - 478 страници
...all is done, 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." * * Sir William Temple. ON THE PASSION FOE THE UNIVERSAL. IN earlier... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1875 - 618 страници
...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." BARBARA SON the noon of the 14th of November, 1743 or 4, I forget... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1876 - 478 страници
...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." BARBARA SON the noon of the I4th of November, 1743 or 4, I forget... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1876 - 740 страници
...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." of Snic (Ocnius. (The Nciu Afonthty Miig.izine, May, 1826.) [As... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 334 страници
...is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a forward 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. A man who has taken his ideas of mankind irom... | |
 | James Hamblin Smith - 1876 - 184 страници
...Shakespeare. Human life is, at the greatest and 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. — Temple. (3) It stands for had it not been for : In Syracusa... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1879 - 672 страници
...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." SANITY OF TRUE GENIUS. PUBLISHED UNDER THE TITLE "THAT GREAT WIT... | |
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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. 
