 In age, youth, and manhood, three wives have I tried, Whose qualities rare all my wants have supplied. The first, goaded on by the ardour of youth, I woo'd for the sake of her person, forsooth: The second I took for the sake of her purse; And the third...  The French Anas ... - Page 79by Jacques D. Du Perron - 1805Full view - About this book
 | Flowers of literature - 1807 - 626 pages
...age, youth, and manhood, three wives have I tried, Whose qualities rare all my wants have supplied j The first, goaded on by the ardour of youth, I woo'd...sake of her purse ; And the third — for what reason ? 1 wanted a nurse. INTERESTING ANECDOTES RELATIVE TO THE ROYAL TIGER OF BENGAL. (From the splendid... | |
 | 1810 - 500 pages
...age, youth, and manhood, three wives have I try'd, Whose qualities rare all my wants have supply'd. The first, goaded on by the ardour of youth, I woo^d...forsooth : The second I took for the sake of her purse ; HTPHCS. Augustus Nyphus, a native of Sueza, in the kingdom of Naples, whose books of morals were... | |
 | Akeroyde's padd (Dance) - 1812 - 352 pages
...wives have I tried, Whose qualities rare all my wants have supplied, The firstj goaded on by the ardor of youth, I woo'd for the sake of her person, forsooth...her purse ; And the third — for what reason ? I wanted a nurse. Drake. 'Francis Drake has left behind him in England the character, of an excellent... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - Epigrams - 1870 - 652 pages
...an epigram which is translated from the Latin in " Selections from the French Anas," 1797, 1. 66 : In age, youth, and manhood, three wives have I tried,...of her purse ; And the third — for what reason? I wanted a nurse. TO ZOILUS (" Delitiic Dclitiarum," H). Translated by Jumea Wriyht. My book to you,... | |
 | Epigrammatists - 1870 - 654 pages
...qualities rare all my wants have supplied. The first, goaded on by the ardour of youth, I vroo'd foi the sake of her person, forsooth : The second I took for the sake of her purse ; TO ZOILUS (" DclitifB Delitiarum," 11). Translated by James Wright. My book to you, 0 Zoilus, seems... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - Epigrams - 1875 - 768 pages
...Selections from the French Anas," 1797, 1. 66 : In age, youth, and manhood, three wives have I tried, Wliose qualities rare all my wants have supplied. The first,...her purse ; And the third — for what reason ? I wanted a nurse. TO ZOILUS (" Delitue Delitiarum," 11). Trandated by Jamet Wright. My book to you, 0... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - Epigrams - 1875 - 748 pages
...wants have supplied. In age, youth, and manhood, three wives have I tried, The first, goaded on l.-y the ardour of youth, I woo'd for the sake of her person,...forsooth : The second I took for the sake of her purse; TO ZOILVS (" Delitia Delitiarum," 11). Translated by James Wright. My book to you, 0 Zoilus, seems... | |
 | Carolyn Wells - Wit and humor - 1923 - 804 pages
...wives, Dear happy husband, take it on my word, To Pluto I'd give two, to take the third. THEODORUS BEZA In age, youth, and manhood, three wives have I tried,...of her purse; And the third — for what reason? I wanted a nurse. PAULUS THOMAS , ON CELSUS With self love Celsus burns: is he not blest? For thus without... | |
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