 | William W. Davis - 1908 - 678 דפים
...places, or events, the author asks the charity of the critic, who, doubtless, could not do any better. Be to her virtues very kind; Be to her faults a little blind. Whiteside is a wide field to traverse in a short time. To the editors of the Daily Gazette and of the... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - 1911 - 784 דפים
...fools rush in where angels fear to tread. 1753 Pope : E. on Criticism. Pt. iii. Line 62. FORBEARANCE. Be to her virtues very kind; Be to her faults a little blind. Let all her ways be unconfinM, And clap your padlock on her mind. 1754 Prior : English Padlock. Line 78 The kindest and... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1911 - 784 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. KINGS — see Court, Loyalty, Princes, Royalty, War. The king-becoming... | |
 | Lady Matilda Ridout Edgar - 1912 - 386 דפים
...behaviour to his wife, so applicable to you and your colonies, that I cannot help repeating them: " Be to her virtues very kind, Be to her faults a little blind." Upon the whole I will beg leave to tell the House what is my opinion. It is that the Stamp Act be repealed... | |
 | Lewis Saul Benjamin - 1912 - 368 דפים
...thrust her from it." This, surely, is the view to take of this cruelly ill-used, vastly wronged lady. " Be to her virtues very kind ; Be to her faults a little blind." Preface ix After the Queen's death much harm was done to her memory by the publication of a " Diary... | |
 | William Stebbing - 1913 - 424 דפים
...of a bachelor's advice to a jealous husband : Wait on her to the park and play, Put on good-humour ; make her gay ; 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.10 He renders a ' blubbered face ' still adorable,... | |
 | 1913 - 264 דפים
...see Charity. Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn. Bailey: Festus. Be to her virtues very kind; Be to her faults a little blind. Prior: An English Padlock. And he returns a friend who came a foe. Pope. Assail'd by scandal and the... | |
 | Godfrey Tennyson Lampson Locker-Lampson - 1918 - 632 דפים
...— I can reason with the people of England, but I cannot fight against the thunder of authority. 1 ' 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.' — MATTHEW PKIOB, An English Padlock. 294 Gentlemen,... | |
 | 1918 - 184 דפים
...s'eloignant de nous. Matelot, chap. liv, par PIERRE LOTI. January 15 Emma, Lady Hamilton, d. 1815. Be to her virtues very kind ; Be to her faults a little blind. An English Padlock, by MATTHEW PRIOR. January 16 Lieul.-General Sir John Moore, d. 1809. Make him with... | |
 | Winifred Stephens Whale - 1918 - 272 דפים
...the left, brother in front, uncle behind, governess all round." 1 See also our own poet, Prior — " Be to her virtues very kind, Be to her faults a little blind, And clap a padlock on her mind." 2 It is- only since the War, in 1917, that the law has permitted women... | |
| |
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. 
