 | 1804 - 452 páginas
...recommend it. Sir William Temple, with easy elegance, says " That human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with, and humoured a little, till it falls asleep !—and then the care is over." The poetess Sappho imagines,... | |
 | William Temple - 1814 - 606 páginas
...themselves, though no body hurts them! When 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. \ AN ESSAY UPON... | |
 | William Burdon - 1820 - 1026 páginas
...quiet themselves, tho' nobody hurts them. <' When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played...little to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over." Ditto, p, 429. VP. 76. " Books of instruction." The principal end of poetry,... | |
 | William Burdon - 1820 - 460 páginas
...done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played 352 with and humored a little to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over." i Ditto, p. 429. P. 76. " Books of instruction." The principal end of poetry,... | |
 | 1821 - 384 páginas
...quiet themselves, though nobody hurts them ! When 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. V. AN ESSAY UPON... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 páginas
...breed two together.—Sir P. Sidney. CXXIV. When 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 W. Temple.... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 páginas
...breed two together. — Sir P. Sidney. cxxiy. When 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 TV. Temple.... | |
 | 1832 - 524 páginas
...concludes one of his philosophic essays : — "When this 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." His garden was... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1832 - 228 páginas
...which, when dead, the world hastens to forget. " When 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... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1833 - 308 páginas
...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 humoured a little, to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over." BARBARA SON... | |
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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. 
