 | William Temple - 1814 - 588 pages
...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. AN ESSAY • UPON THE ANCIENT AND MODERN LEARNING*. . Juvat anliquos accederef antes. WHOEVER converses... | |
 | Sir William Temple - Europe - 1814 - 580 pages
...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 AN ESSAY UPON THE ANCIENT AND MODERN LEARNING*. Juvat antiques accederef antes. WHOEVER converses much... | |
 | William Burdon - Ethics - 1820 - 1026 pages
...life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over." Ditto, p, 429. VP. 76. " Books of instruction." The principal end of poetry, and all books of imagination,... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 384 pages
...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. V. AN ESSAY UPON THE ANCIENT AND MODERN LEARNING.* .limit antiques accederef antes. WHOEVER converses... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...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. — Sir TV. Temple. cxxv. Jesting, when not used upon improper matter, in an unfit manner, with excessive... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 pages
...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.—Sir W. Temple. cxxv. Jesting, when not used upon improper matter, in an unfit manner, with... | |
 | Samuel Felton - Gardeners - 1830 - 270 pages
...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." His garden was one of his last delights. He knew what kind of life was best fitted to make a man's... | |
 | English periodicals - 1832 - 524 pages
...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." His garden was one of his last delights. He knew what kind of life was best fitted to make a man's... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - English literature - 1832 - 228 pages
...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."* * Sir William Temple. (Fropi tlio Edinburgh RevieW—No. CIV.) A Comparative View of the Social Life... | |
 | Charles Lamb - Decision making - 1833 - 308 pages
...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 the noon of the 14th of November, 1743 or 4, I forget which it was, just as the clock had struck... | |
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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. 
