 When all is done, 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.  Materials for Thinking - Side 352af William Burdon - 1820Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1804 - 452 sider
...offer;—for thfrt life has nothing to recommend it. Sir William Temple, with easy elegance, says " That human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with, and humoured a little, till it falls asleep !—and then the care is over." The poetess Sappho imagines,... | |
 | Sir William Temple - 1814 - 580 sider
...and do not trouble the world, or other men, because they cannot be quiet themselves, though no body hurts them! [When all is done, human life is, at the...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 AN ESSAY UPON THE ANCIENT... | |
 | 1821 - 384 sider
...innocent ; and do not trouble the world, or other men, because they cannot be quiet themselves, though nobody hurts them ! When all is done, human life is,...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. V. AN ESSAY UPON... | |
 | Sir William Temple - 1821 - 390 sider
...innocent ; and do not trouble the world, or other men, becanse they cannot be quiet themselves, though nobody hurts them ! When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like afroward child, that must be j played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet, ' till it falls... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 sider
...should be the cause of laughter; but well may one thing breed two together. — Sir P. Sidney. cxxiy. When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and...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. — Sir TV. Temple.... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 sider
...should be the cause of laughter; but well may one thing breed two together.—Sir P. Sidney. CXXIV. When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and...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.—Sir W. Temple.... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1832 - 228 sider
...till we are dead—or of making laws and speeches which, when dead, the world hastens to forget. " When all is done, human life is at the greatest and...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."* * Sir William... | |
 | 1832 - 524 sider
...of honour and humanity." Sir Wiiliam thus concludes one of his philosophic essays : — "When this is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best,...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." His garden was... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1833 - 308 sider
...because they cannot be quiet themselves, though nobody 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 humoured a little, to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over." BARBARA SON... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1835 - 382 sider
...till we are dead — or of making laws and speeches, which, when dead, the world hastens to forget. " When all is done, human life is at the greatest and...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." * * Sir William... | |
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