 | Caroline M. Mersereau - 1860 - 370 דפים
...visiting the city — where your friends Will shortly find the means to gain your ends. V. 8. G. — Be to her virtues very kind, Be to her faults a little blind. Prior. L. — By going to Church — when he will think or find, At all -events, you're morally inclined.... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1896 - 640 דפים
...She would to thy embraces run, Receive her with extended arms, Seem more delighted with her charms, Wait on her to the Park and play, Put on good humour,...faults a little blind, Let all her ways be unconfined, And clap your padlock on—her mind." Instead of clapping the padlock on her mind we have taken it... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 דפים
...Rev. William Bull, Line 19. Virtue alone is true nobility. STEPNEY'S.— Eighth Satire of Juvenal. Be to her virtues very kind ; Be to her faults a little blind. PRIOR.— An English Padlock, last Lines but two In Isaac Bickerstaff's Farce of "The Padlock," VIRTUE.... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 דפים
...giddy wheel around, Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things. Contemphtim. MATTHEW PRIOR. 1664-1721. Be to her virtues very kind ; Be to her faults a little blind. An Enjlish Padlock. Be to her merits kind, And to her faults whate'er they are be blind. Prologue to... | |
 | 1866 - 320 דפים
...Variety alone gives joy, The sweetest meats the soonest cloy. The Turtle and Sparrow. Lines 232, 233. Be to her virtues very kind, Be to her faults a little blind. An English Padlock. Concluding Lints. * This line is, in most cases where it is used, given wrongly... | |
 | 1883 - 494 דפים
...new dressing mirrors, framed in plush, painted by hand, have the following appropriate quotation: " Be to her virtues very kind, Be to her faults a little blind." An Austin Toung Man was seen coming hurriedly ont of a business house which he had entered to solicit... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 דפים
...more safe than Paul's church-yard : Nay, fly to altars ; there they'll talk you dead ; FOBBEAK.A.NCE. Be to her virtues very kind ; Be to her faults a little blind. Let all her ways be unconfin'd, • And clap your padlock on her mind. Prior, Englitk Padlock. The kindest and the happiest... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - 1868 - 234 דפים
...whilst they were living ;" * [Prior might almost have had these passages in his eye when he wrote : " Be to her virtues very kind ; Be to her faults a little blind." — £D.] yet, because more seemeth imported therein, we will prosecute the aforesaid particulars.... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 דפים
...BUSSY, Comte de Rabutin, Epistle 33, Book i. t See Proverbs, page 391 . B MATTHEW PRIOR. 1664-172i. E to her virtues very kind ; Be to her faults a little blind. AnEnglish Padloch. Be to her merits kind, And to her faults whate'er they are be blind. Prologue to... | |
 | Mark Hopkins - 1872 - 444 דפים
...and overlooking; deficiencies and even faults. Let each o party adopt the spirit of the couplet — " Be to her virtues very kind, Be to her faults a little blind." and it would, I will not say pour oil upon the troubled waters, but would prevent them from ever becoming... | |
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Be to her virtues very kind ; Be to her faults a little blind ; Let all her ways be unconfin'd ; And clap your padlock — on her mind. 
