 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1878 - 838 lehte
...concluding sentence of Sir William Temple's Essay on Poetry : — " Human life is at the greatest and the best but like a froward child, that must be played...till it falls asleep, and then the care is over." Goldsmith's epitaph on the unfortunate bookseller's hack, hia college friend, Ned Purdon — who Led... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 lehte
...quiet themselves, though nobody hurts them. When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played...quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over. 3. COMPARISON OF ANCIENT AND MODERN LEARNING. — (" ESSAY UPON THE ANCIENT AND MODERN LEARNING.")1... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 244 lehte
...quiet themselves, though nobody hurts them. When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played...quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over. JOHN BTTNYAN: 1628-1688. Banyan, a poor, uneducated tinker, after travelling about the country for... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1867 - 582 lehte
...though nobody hurts them." " When all is done (he concludes), human life is at the greatest and the best but like a froward child, that must be played...till it falls asleep, and then the care is over." BAEBARA SON the noon of the 14th of November, 1743 or 4, I forget which it was, just as the clock had... | |
 | 1868 - 884 lehte
...and characteristically displayed in the last words of his last essay. ' When all is done,' ho says, ' human life is at the greatest and best but like a...till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.' This is taking the battle of life very easily, but it is not in such manner that great raen or true... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1868 - 570 lehte
...Finally, I wound up with Sir William Temple, " When all is done, human life is, nt the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played...till it falls asleep, and then the care is over." I think 7ny conversation had, as was natural, a cheering effect for the time. He thanked me very much... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1868 - 432 lehte
...which, when dead, the world hastens to forget. "When all is done, human life is at the greatest and the best but like a froward child, that must be played...till it falls asleep, and then the care is over."* * Sir William Temple. THE TALE OF KOSEM KESAMIM, THE MAGICIAN* * * • * * * * • * * * * * * •... | |
 | Sir Arthur Helps - 1868 - 340 lehte
...Finally, I wound up with Sir William Temple, "When all is done human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played...till it falls asleep, and then the care is over." however, I am afraid I noticed in a parting glance at him, as he sank back in his chair, that his melancholy... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1868 - 378 lehte
...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." * * Sir William Temple. THE TALE OF KOSEM KESAMIM, IT was deep night, and the Magician suddenly stood... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1871 - 484 lehte
...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." BARBARA S . ON the noon of the 14th of November, 1743 or 4, 1 forget which it was, just as the clock... | |
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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. 
