 | Thomas Hunter - 1884 - 670 דפים
...worse. 21. Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. 22. Be to her virtues very kind ; Be to her faults a little blind. 23. Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer... | |
 | 1888 - 438 דפים
...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...kind : Be to her Faults a little blind : Let all her Ways.be unconfin'd: And clap your PADLOCK — on her Mind.'' It is not, however, by Alma, or his tales... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1889 - 326 דפים
...,ie would to thy embraces run ; eceive her with extended arms : Seem more delighted with her charms : Wait on her to the Park and play : Put on good humour ; make her gay : : to her virtues very kind ; Be to her faults a little blind ; Let all her ways be unconfin'd ; And... | |
 | 1890 - 984 דפים
...romance and lies." When, to shun these ills, she returns to her husband, let him make much of her : " Wait on her to the park and play ; Put on good humour, make her gay ; tie to her virtues very kind ; lie to her faults a little blind ; Let all her ways be unconfined,... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1890 - 1078 דפים
...foe. I think it was Chatham who, speaking of the rebels in America, quoted the lines of Prior — " Bs to her virtues very kind, Be to her faults a little blind. And clap a padlock on the mind." Those were words of wisdom and statesmanship, and that is the statesmanship... | |
 | Beatrice Whitby - 1891 - 332 דפים
...sorry, Luttrell ; don't expect too much. I have been hard in my time — I have been very hard — " ' Be to her virtues very kind, Be to her faults a little blind.' " That's wisdom, Luttrell, and true manliness. That is good to be remembered when virtues and faults... | |
 | 1891 - 406 דפים
...FH Wood. — " He found his virtue too severe For our corrupted times to bear." Miss Worster — " Be to her virtues very kind; Be to her faults a little blind. ' ' /. \V. Young. — " There is a fair behavior in thee, Captain." Miss Abbott. — " Look down, you... | |
 | Arthur D. Hall, Robert L. Downing - 1892 - 328 דפים
...laughing eyes and roguish mouth, what shall we say of her as we bid her farewell ? What, indeed, save Bs to her virtues very kind, Be to her faults a little blind. And Nell's virtues far outweighed her faults. Forgive her the one error, which was more forced upon... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1894 - 354 דפים
...lines, from ' An English Padlock,' are not quite correctly quoted by Walpole. They should run— ' Be to her Virtues very kind : Be to her Faults a little blind, Let all her ways be unconfined, And clap your Padlock on her mind.' — Prior's Poems on Several Occasions, 1718, p. 104. — E. 3... | |
 | William Potts - 1895 - 330 דפים
...enthusiastic devotion of a large number of our scientific men. You remember what Matthew Prior says : — Be to her virtues very kind ; Be to her faults a little blind. This we are bound to do in regard to Mr. Spencer, but, on the other hand, we ought to remember that... | |
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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. 
