 I am more pleased with, than those who show human nature in a variety of views, and describe the several ages of the world in their different manners. A reader cannot be more rationally entertained than by comparing the virtues and vices of his own times...  The British Essayists: Spectator - Strana 65úprava: - 1823Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Pye Henry Chavasse - 1877 - Počet stránok 360
...hit life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing. ROGERS. Of earthly goods the test is a good Wife; A bad, the bitterest curse of human life. SIMONIDE9. 1. IT may be well — before I enter on the subjects of menstruation, of pregnancy, of labour,... | |
 | Pye Henry Chavasse - 1880 - Počet stránok 568
...TAYXOB. A guardian angel o'er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing. ROOEB8. Of earthly goods, the best is a good Wife ; A bad, the bitterest curse of human life. SIMONIPES. 1. IT may be well — before I enter on tne subjects of meustruation, of pregnancy, of labour,... | |
 | L. R. Trevelyan - 1880 - Počet stránok 322
...her now, and known the unhappy, miserable life she led. But matrimony is indeed, a lottery— " Qf earthly goods, the best is a good wife ; A bad, the bitterest curse of human life." CHAPTER X. SPORTS AND PASTIMES. THERE was hardly a creature to be seen on the malle the morning after... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1880 - Počet stránok 618
...ourselves what is so. L. No. 209. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30. s ou5f eipoi', ouBt fiiytov KO.KTIS. SIMON IDES. Of earthly goods, the best is a good wife ; A bad, the bitterest corse of human life. THERE are no authors I am more pleased with, than those who shew hnman nature... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - Počet stránok 772
...account of this art than all the volumes that were ever written upon it. ADDISON : Tatler, No. 108. There are no authors I am more pleased with than those who show human nature in a variety of views, and describe the several ages of, the world in their different... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - Počet stránok 738
...money to lend, If his wife be owt, if his wife be owt. The Gipsy's Rhyme (iV. ,J- Q, Feb. 10, 1866). Of earthly goods, the best is a good wife ; A bad, the bitterest curse of human life. Simonides. WILPULHESS. Muse not that I thus suddenly proceed ; For what I will, I will— and there's... | |
 | Truths - 1885 - Počet stránok 572
...his eyes, Vinegar to his teeth, a Thorn to his side, a Dagger to his heart. iHaertagr. — Slmonides. OF earthly goods, the best is a good Wife ; A bad, the bitterest Curse of human life. f-Harri.1gr. — Massillon. EVERY effort is made in forming Matrimonial Alliances to reconcile matters... | |
 | 1887 - Počet stránok 1332
...all the plagues the greatest is untold, The book-learned wife in Greek and Latin bold. Shaks. 138. Of earthly goods the best is a good wife, A bad the bitterest curse of human life. 447 139. Of your wife and tried friend believe nothing but what you know for certain. Sp. 140. Oh,... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1889 - Počet stránok 362
...promise more than he can perform. A man's wife is either his crown or his cross. " Of earthly good, the best is a good wife, A bad — the bitterest curse of human life." A mask is an instrument of torture to a true man. He hates all disguise. He wishes to be known and... | |
 | George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - Počet stránok 476
...suppliant voice. No. 208. OVID, Ars Am. i. 99. To be themselves a spectacle they come. 209. SIMONIDES. Of earthly goods, the best is a good wife ; A bad, the bitterest curse of human life. 210. Cic., Tusc. Quaest. I. xv. There is, I know not how, in minds a certain presage, as it were, of... | |
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