 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.  The Cornhill Magazine - Page 473edited by - 1878Full view - About this book
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...perhaps, my child, after all, what your noble ancestor has observed is most true : — When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a fro ward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep,... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 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...till it falls asleep, and then the care is over." BARBARA S . ON the noon of the 14th of November, 1743 or 4, I forget which it was, just as the clock... | |
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...altered circumstances and exigencies of the time in which we live. When all is done, human life is at the best but like a froward child, that must be played...it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is met. — Sir W. Temple. Time runs on, and when youth and beauty vanish, a fine lady who had never entertained... | |
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 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1841 - 306 pages
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 | 1841 - 436 pages
...hypochondriac ; nor is money; you may be suspected as a borrower Zimmerman. When all is done, human life is at the best but like a froward child, that must be played...quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over. —'.Sir W. Temple. Time runs on, and when youth and beauty vanish, a fine lady who had never entertained... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1845 - 398 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 BARBARA SON the noon... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1845 - 396 pages
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...WHEN all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the hest, hut like a froward child, that must he played with and humoured a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over. THE flesh of animals which feed excursively, is allowed to have a higher flavour than that of those... | |
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