 | Alfred Guy L'Estrange - 1878 - 414 דפים
...quote the following advice to a husband from the " English Padlock " " Be to her virtues very kind, And to her faults a little blind, Let all her ways be unconfined, And clap your padlock on her mind." " Yes ; ev'ry poet is a fool ; By demonstration Ned can show it;... | |
 | C. A. M. Burdett - 1880 - 356 דפים
...Here, and there, and to, and fro, Like a centaur, see ! they go. F. Faludi, trans, by Sir J. Bowring. Be to her virtues very kind, Be to her faults a little blind. Prior. March 15. She walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies ; And all... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 דפים
...more safe than Paul's chureh-yard : Nay, fly to altars ; there thev'll talk you dead ; FORBEARANCE. 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, Engllsh Padlock. The kindest and the happiest... | |
 | Mark Hopkins - 1881 - 418 דפים
...and overlooking deficiencies and even faults. Let each 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... | |
 | Mark Hopkins - 1881 - 430 דפים
...and overlooking deficiencies and even faults. Let each 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... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt - 1882 - 914 דפים
...III. , Line 208. Woman's at best a contradiction still. /. POPE— Moral Essaya. Ep. II. Line 270. hour bef ij. PRIOR — An English Padlock. A woman is the most inconsistent compound of obstinacy and self-sacrifice... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1882 - 1148 דפים
...joint existence. If we of each nation, in regarding the other, remembered the words of the poet — " Be to her virtues very kind, Be to her faults a little blind ; " the attainment of such a modus vivendi ought not to be difficult. Some of the measures of which... | |
 | 1882 - 736 דפים
...aided us, minds that have thought for us, are true, and they were her sons. For their sakes, let us ' Be to her virtues very kind, Be to her faults a little blind." EUSTACE B. ROGERS, ALUMNI AND ALUMNI CHAPTERS. Fraternity graduates are far too apt to imagine that... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 דפים
...wretched are the wise.* Ibid. Odds life ! must one swear to the truth of a song ? A Better Anitoer. Be to her virtues very kind ; Be to her faults a little blind. An English Padlock. That, if weak women went astray, Their stars were more in fault than they. Hans... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 דפים
...Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn. 2518 Bailey: Festus. Sc. Home. Be to her virtues very kind ; Be to her faults a little blind. 2519 Prior: An English Padlock. SINGS — see Court, Loyalty, Princes, Royalty, War. The king-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. 
