 | William Temple - 1757 - Liczba stron: 564
...When all is done, human life is, at the greateft and the beft, but like a froward child, that muft be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet till it falls afleep, and then the care is over. ESSAY UPON THE ANCIENT AND MODERN LEARNING*. Juvat antiques accedere... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1788 - Liczba stron: 324
...tfhen all li done , human life is , at the greateji and the deft, but like a.froward child, that muft be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet till it fulls aileep , and then, the care is over. LETTER II. 1 ENTIRELY acquiefce in your fentiments, that... | |
 | 1793 - Liczba stron: 720
..., " When ail is done, human life it, • at the befl, but like a froward child, that mult be p ayed with and humoured a little to keep it quiet till it falls afleep, and then the care is over'" It Ihould appear to me that Lord Orrery is the author) fine? I... | |
 | William Burdon - 1820 - Liczba stron: 1026
...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,... | |
 | 1821 - Liczba stron: 384
...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, at the...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... | |
 | Sir William Temple - 1821 - Liczba stron: 390
...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 asleep, and then the care is over. V. AN ESSAY UPON THE ANCIENT AND MODERN LEARNING.* - Juvat antiques accedere fonta. WHOEVER converses... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - Liczba stron: 354
...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...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 - Liczba stron: 352
...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...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... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1832 - Liczba stron: 228
...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...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... | |
 | 1832 - Liczba stron: 524
...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,...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... | |
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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. 
