 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1882 - 874 sider
...Plato, thou reasonest well," which avenges, perhaps, on the public their neglect of the play ! * " The lady was persuaded to marry him on terms much...reported to pronounce, ' Daughter, I give thee this man for thy slave.' The marriage, if uncontradicted report can be credited, made no addition to his happiness;... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1883 - 880 sider
...which avenges, perhaps, on the public their neglect of the play I * "The lacly was persuaded to innrry him on terms much like those on which a Turkish princess...reported to pronounce, ' Daughter, I give thee this man for thy slave.' The marriage, if uncontradicted report can be credited, made no addition to his happiness... | |
 | Famous people - 1883 - 552 sider
...works, both in verse and prose." She was persuaded to marry him, Dr. Johnson tells us, on terms very much like those on which a Turkish princess is espoused...reported to pronounce, " Daughter, I give thee this man for thy slave." The marriage, if uncontradicted report can be credited, made no addition to Addison's... | |
 | 1883 - 840 sider
...consequently resigned in 1718. Then as to the other matter, Dr. Johnson sarcastically remarks, that ' the lady was persuaded to marry him on terms much like those on which a Turkish princess is «spoused — to whom the sultan ¡a reported to pronounce: "Daughter, I give thee this man for thy... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1883 - 668 sider
...Plato, thou rcasonest well,'1 which avenges, perhaps, on the public their neglect of the play ! * " The lady was persuaded to marry him on terms much like those on which :x Turkish princess is espoused — -to whom the Sultan is reported to pronounce, ' Daughter, I give... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1884 - 664 sider
...Plato, thou reasonest well," which avenges, perhaps, on the public their neglect of the play ! * " The lady was persuaded to marry him on terms much...Sultan is reported to pronounce, ' Daughter, I give thce this man for thy slave.' The marriage, if uncontradicted report can be credited, made no addition... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 416 sider
...Plato, thou reasonest well," which avenges, perhaps, on the public their neglect of the play I * " The lady was persuaded to marry him on terms much...reported to pronounce, ' Daughter, I give thee this man for thy slave.' The marriage, if uncontradicted report can be credited, made no addition to his happiness... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 572 sider
...ladyship in 1716; and died at Holland House three years after that splendid but dismal union.*) *) "The lady was persuaded to marry him on terms much...reported to pronounce, 'Daughter, I give thee this man for thy slave.' The marriage, if uncontradicted report can be credited, made no addition to his happiness;... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1886 - 876 sider
...which avenges, perhaps, on the public their neglect of the play ! * " The lady was persuaded to mnrry him on terms much like those on which a Turkish princess...reported to pronounce, ' Daughter, I give thee this man for thy slave.' The marriage, if uncontradicted report can be credited, made no addition to his happiness;... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - 1886 - 478 sider
...long courted, and whom he at length obtained, "on terms much like those on which a Turkish ptincess is espoused, to whom the Sultan is reported to pronounce, ' Daughter, I give thee this man for thy slave."* This union added nothing to his happiness. He would often Addisoris Conversation.... | |
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The marriage, if uncontradicted report can be credited, made no addition to his happiness ; it neither found them nor made them equal. 
