Proverbial Folk-loreR.J. Clark, printer, High street, 1875 - 173 من الصفحات |
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... epigram is an instance in point . Clara's a manager , she's born to rule , And knows her wiser husband is a fool ; For her own dinner she'll concoct a plan , Nor take her tea without a stratagem . - Dr . Young . Another of the kind will ...
... epigram is an instance in point . Clara's a manager , she's born to rule , And knows her wiser husband is a fool ; For her own dinner she'll concoct a plan , Nor take her tea without a stratagem . - Dr . Young . Another of the kind will ...
الصفحة 7
... epigram is found taking a different view , Men dying make their wills - but wives Escape a work so sad ; Why should they make what all their lives The gentle dames have had ? Ladies have enormous influence , and they take enormous ...
... epigram is found taking a different view , Men dying make their wills - but wives Escape a work so sad ; Why should they make what all their lives The gentle dames have had ? Ladies have enormous influence , and they take enormous ...
الصفحة 8
... epigram above , suggests also sustaining it ; for example , not unfrequently a torrent of words . And here again the ... Epigrams having their say on this matter . How like is this picture , you'd think that it breathed , What life ...
... epigram above , suggests also sustaining it ; for example , not unfrequently a torrent of words . And here again the ... Epigrams having their say on this matter . How like is this picture , you'd think that it breathed , What life ...
الصفحة 10
... time for the slower processes of mental argumentation . An epigram will occur that was made on a mirror . I change , and so do women too , But I reflect , that women never do ! Women are wise off - hand and fools on reflection 10.
... time for the slower processes of mental argumentation . An epigram will occur that was made on a mirror . I change , and so do women too , But I reflect , that women never do ! Women are wise off - hand and fools on reflection 10.
الصفحة 28
... Epigrams on this prolific subject abound as might have been expected ; and one old divine has not thought it beneath his dignity to in- troduce the subject with this half - serious , and certainly most eccentric expostulation . Our ...
... Epigrams on this prolific subject abound as might have been expected ; and one old divine has not thought it beneath his dignity to in- troduce the subject with this half - serious , and certainly most eccentric expostulation . Our ...
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الصفحة 165 - Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.
الصفحة 61 - A little neglect may breed great mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horseshoe nail.
الصفحة 106 - Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure ; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
الصفحة 118 - When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: and put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
الصفحة 109 - Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample. (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the Cross of Christ: whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things...
الصفحة 25 - ST. Swithin's day if thou dost rain, For forty days it will remain : St. Swithin's day if thou be fair, For forty days 'twill rain na mair.
الصفحة 94 - The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back How he esteems your merit, Is such a friend, that one had need Be very much his friend indeed, To pardon or to bear it.
الصفحة 93 - But never either found another To free the hollow heart from paining — They stood aloof, the scars remaining, Like cliffs which had been rent asunder ; A dreary sea now flows between, But neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder, Shall wholly do away, I ween, The marks of that which once hath been.
الصفحة 123 - Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains ; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains.
الصفحة 52 - Good old plan, That he should take who has the power, And he should keep who can,'