 | Sir Henry Craik - 1917 - 648 страници
...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. (From the Same.) THE LIMITS OF HUMAN FACULTIES IT were too great... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1920 - 272 страници
...is done, humane 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. Essays : Of Poetry. THOMAS TRAHERNE 1637-1674 CHILDHOOD THE corn... | |
 | Havelock Ellis - 1921 - 276 страници
...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." There is a cadence there to thrill along the nerves as in no other... | |
 | Havelock Ellis - 1921 - 260 страници
...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." There is a cadence there to thrill along the nerves as in no other... | |
 | Sir Henry John Newbolt - 1922 - 1032 страници
...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. DOROTHY OSBORNE (Married 1654, died 1695) TO SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - 1923 - 290 страници
...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." On occasion he can deliver swift strokes of censure when the ways... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1923 - 144 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.' The Last Essays of Elia. 1826. BURNET'S HISTORY OF HIS OWN TIMES... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1924 - 440 страници
...done, human life is, at the greatest anil the be«t, 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 essays " Of Gardens " and " Of Poetry " are pleasanter than... | |
 | William Henry Crawshaw - 1924 - 606 страници
...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. Other writers there were — in divinity, in philosophy, in history,... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1262 страници
...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. Essays 189 On his l^etirementJrom "•Public Life FOR the Ease of... | |
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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. 
