| Horace Twiss - Engraving - 1844 - 550 pages
...hidden chain of ideas. My walnuts had reminded my grandfather of the couplet, ' A spaniel, a wife, and a walnut-tree, The more you beat them the better they be.' " Lord Eldon returned to London from Encombe on the 10th of September, and devoted himself assiduously... | |
| Ellen Pickering - Depression, Mental - 1844 - 136 pages
...pray don't try : my cries would disprove your assertion. UNCLE. It might do you good. A woman, " Like a spaniel and a walnut-tree, The more you beat them, the better they'll be." NIECE. Fie, uncle, to use such horrid musty old proverbs. The new saying is — UNCLE.... | |
| Emma Robinson - 1845 - 890 pages
...lawful spouse." " Hast thou forgotten thine own see-saw ? " said De la Pole smilingly. " ' For a woman, a spaniel, and a walnut-tree, The more you beat them the better they be.' " Yea, she is very earnest to see me once again, and declares her master is now so constantly abroad,... | |
| Emma Robinson - 1853 - 518 pages
...lawful spouse." " Hast thou forgotten thine own see-sawP" said De la Pole, smilingly. " ' For a woman, a spaniel, and a walnut-tree. The more you beat them the better they be.t " Yea, she is very earnest to see me once again, and declares her master is now so constantly... | |
| Charles Henry Pearson - 1859 - 190 pages
...English civilization is not very pleasantly reflected in the famous distich : — A spaniel, a wife, and a walnut-tree, The more you beat them, the better they be. Pictures deserve, from their great number, and from their nature, to be ranked in the very first class... | |
| English literature - 1859 - 782 pages
...English civilisation is not very pleasantly reflected in the famous distich : — * A spaniel, a wife, and a walnut-tree. The more you beat them, the better they be.' Pictures deserve, from their great number, and from their nature, to be ranked in the very first class... | |
| Chambers's journal - 1862 - 432 pages
...I could get hold of him. This done, I put him into an outhouse ; and finding the symptoms he shewed too clear to leave me any reason to doubt his madness,...walnut-tree, The more you beat them, the better they be. ííow, I am not going to question the effect of correction on the other subjects of this verse, but... | |
| William Winwood Reade - Africa - 1864 - 476 pages
...nature displays itself, and insolence ensues. The old maxim, slightly altered — A Kru-man, a dog, and a walnut-tree, The more you beat them, the better they be — applies well enough when the punishment is really deserved. It has always been an understood thing... | |
| mrs. Alexander Fraser - 1872 - 260 pages
...loves him ! Women are strange creatures, I thoroughly believe in the old saying, " A woman, a dog, and a walnut-tree, The more you beat them the better they be !" Yet such an angel as Katie ought to keep any man straight.' And as he thought of her a soft tender... | |
| Food - 1873 - 500 pages
...fruit bearing powers, arose a couplet not very complimentary to the gentle sex : — " A woman, a dog, and a walnut-tree, The more you beat them, the better they be." The walnut-tree is said to have been introduced into Rome by Vitellius, who brought it from Greece.... | |
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