 | 1881 - Страниц: 578
...be quiet themselves, though nobody hurts them. When all is done, human life is at the greatest and aggard scowl from under his JOHN" LOCKE. BORN 1632: DIED 170*. (From " The Conduct oftfie Understanding.") CAUSES OF WEAKNESS IK... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1881 - Страниц: 514
...highest degree of insensibility in a native of 1 " When nil is done, human life i?, nt the greatest nnd 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 WIU.IAM... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1881 - Страниц: 472
...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 fro ward child, that must be played with, and humored a little, to keep it quiet, till it falls asleep,... | |
 | 1881 - Страниц: 852
...the last words of his last essay. ".When all is done," he says, " human life is at the greatest and 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." This is taking... | |
 | Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - 1989 - Страниц: 490
...Poetry with the famous sentence that so well illustrates his pleasingly rhythmical style: When all is done, Human Life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward Child, that must be Play'd with and Humor'da little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the Care is over. In... | |
 | 1923 - Страниц: 748
...the world or other men, because they cannot be quiet themselves, though nobody hurts them ! "When all is done, human life is at the greatest and the best...quiet till it falls asleep and then the care is over." 211. "THE ONELY PRETTY RING TIME." "Amo, amas, I love a lass, As cedar tall and slender; Sweet cowslip's... | |
 | 1881 - Страниц: 972
...English philosopher, too) who wrote this beautiful passage on the philosophy of Life : — ' When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best,...child, that must be played with and humoured a little till it falls asleep ; 3 Sodley's Letters. and then the care is over.' 4 But the fault I cannot but... | |
 | 1881 - Страниц: 970
...English philosopher, too) who wrote this beautiful passage on the philosophy of Life : — ' When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best,...child, that must be played with and humoured a little till it falls asleep; 3 Sedley's Letters. and then the care is over.'4 But the fault I cannot but impute... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - Страниц: 336
...time being bodied forth by his contemporary William Congreve : When all is done, human life is, af the greatest and the best, but like a froward child,...quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over. CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Augustan Age: Defoe, Swift, Pope As THE CONFLICTS AND ENTHUSIASMS of the mid-seventeenth... | |
 | William James - 1988 - Страниц: 1410
...cozenage of a brighter to-morrow? At best it is but a froward child, that must be played with and humored, to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over."1 This is a complex, a tender, a submissive, and a graceful state of mind. For myself, I should... | |
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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. 
