 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.  Table-talk on Books, Men, and Manners - עמוד 45נערך על ידי - 1853 - 229 דפיםתצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | George Saintsbury - 1885 - 432 דפים
...elaborate but still beautiful form, the already cited close of Sir William Temple's Essay on Poetry :— " When all is done, human life is at the greatest and...till it falls asleep, and then the care is over." Here the division is that which has been noted as the usual one in eighteenth century prose, an arsis... | |
 | Truths - 1885 - 572 דפים
...flow by the Moon. Etfe. — Sir William Temple. WHEN 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 lolls asleep, and then the Care is over. ltfe. — JByron. Eife. — Byron. BETWEEN two worlds Life... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1885 - 196 דפים
...because they cannot be quiet themselves, thoughn obody 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 humored a little, to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over." BARBARA SON the... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1885 - 430 דפים
...trouble the world, or other men, because they cannot be quiet themselves though no body hurts them ! H When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a fro ward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep,... | |
 | Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - 1989 - 490 דפים
...essay Of Poetry with the famous sentence that so well illustrates his pleasingly rhythmical style: When all is done, Human Life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward Child, that must be Play'd with and Humor'da little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the Care is over. In... | |
 | 1923 - 748 דפים
...trouble the world or other men, because they cannot be quiet themselves, though nobody hurts them ! "When all is done, human life is at the greatest and...quiet till it falls asleep and then the care is over." 211. "THE ONELY PRETTY RING TIME." "Amo, amas, I love a lass, As cedar tall and slender; Sweet cowslip's... | |
 | 1881 - 970 דפים
...was an Englishman (an English philosopher, too) who wrote this beautiful passage on the philosophy of Life : — ' When all is done, human life is, at the...child, that must be played with and humoured a little till it falls asleep; 3 Sedley's Letters. and then the care is over.'4 But the fault I cannot but impute... | |
 | 1881 - 972 דפים
...was an Englishman (an English philosopher, too) who wrote this beautiful passage on the philosophy of Life : — ' When all is done, human life is, at the...child, that must be played with and humoured a little till it falls asleep ; « Sedley's Lcttert. and then the care is over.'* But the fault I cannot but... | |
 | 1881 - 972 דפים
...was an Englishman (an English philosopher, too) who wrote this beautiful passage on the philosophy of Life : — ' When all is done, human life is, at the...child, that must be played with and humoured a little till it falls asleep ; 3 Sodley's Letters. and then the care is over.' 4 But the fault I cannot but... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 דפים
...time being bodied forth by his contemporary William Congreve : When all is done, human life is, af the greatest and the best, but like a froward child,...quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over. CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Augustan Age: Defoe, Swift, Pope As THE CONFLICTS AND ENTHUSIASMS of the mid-seventeenth... | |
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