 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 884 pages
...the last words of his last essay. ' When all is done,' ho says, ' human life is at the greatest and 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.' This is taking the battle of life... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English literature - 1871 - 484 pages
...because they cannot be quiet themselves, 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 with, and humored a little, to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over." BARBARA S . ON... | |
 | Francis Jacox - Bible - 1873 - 516 pages
...cannot, without making away with myself." When all is done, this is the conclusion of Sir William Temple, human life is at the greatest and the best but like...child, that must be played with, and humoured a little, to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over. The pasteboard triumph and the cavalcade... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1874 - 876 pages
...in the last words of his last eav. ' When all is done,' he says, ' human life is it tie greatest and best but like a froward child, that must be played with and humoured & little to kw? it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the eve a over.' This is taking the tattle... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1875 - 478 pages
...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 the best but like...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. ON THE PASSION... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1875 - 618 pages
...because they cannot be quiet themselves, though nobody hurts them.?< "When all is done, (he concludes,) human life is at the greatest and the best but like...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... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English literature - 1876 - 740 pages
...because they cannot be quiet themselves, though nobody hurts them." " When all is done" (he concludes), "human life is at the greatest and the best but like...child, that must be played with, and humoured a little, to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep, and then the care is over." of Snic (Ocnius. (The Nciu Afonthty... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1876 - 478 pages
...they cannot be quiet themselves, though nobody hurts them." " When all is done," (he concludes,) " human life is at the greatest and the best but like...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 I4th... | |
 | James Hamblin Smith - English language - 1876 - 184 pages
...choleric word, Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. — Shakespeare. Human life is, at the greatest and 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. — Temple. (3) It stands for had... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 334 pages
...akin to a buffoon ; and neither of them is the least akin to a wit.— Chesterfield. When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a forward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep,... | |
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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. 
