 | Henry Robinson Shipherd - 1926 - 380 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. (Quoted from " Upon Poetry," last paragraph, in Miscellanea.) HENRY... | |
 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - 1927 - 408 страници
...all is done, 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.' BONAMY DOBR£E The World of William Clissold. By HG Wells. (Benn.)... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1928 - 280 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. Sir William Temple, of Poetry. WE have but a bad bargain, God knows,... | |
 | 1923 - 748 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." 211. "THE ONELY PRETTY RING TIME." "Amo, amas, I love a lass, As... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 страници
...is done, human life is, af 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. CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Augustan Age: Defoe, Swift, Pope As THE CONFLICTS... | |
 | Richard Webster - 2001 - 244 страници
...all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, 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.9 Dorothy died in 1695. William died four years later. Jonathan Swift,... | |
 | Sir John Collings Squire, Rolfe Arnold Scott-James - 1920 - 806 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." That is Sir William Temple. " The present is a fleeting moment,... | |
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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. 
