 As the husband is, the wife is : thou art mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than...  Histoire de la littérature anglaise - Pàgina 430per Hippolyte Taine - 1869Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 680 pàgines
...? having loved me to decline — Me I for him, a drivelling idiot, but with longer purse than mine. He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something as the mutton shoulder unrelieved by onion sauce. What is this ? his eyes are blackened 1 think not... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1869 - 664 pàgines
...having loved me to decline — Jiff ! for him, a drivelling idiot, bnt with longer purse than mine. He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something as the mutton shoulder unrelieved by onion sauce. What is this? his eyes are blackened ! think not... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1842 - 250 pàgines
...the wife is : thou art mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. He will hold thee, when his passion shall...dog, a little dearer than his horse. What is this 1 his eyes are heavy: think not they are glazed with wine. Go to him: it is thy duty: kiss him: take... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pàgines
...the wife is : thou art mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. He will hold thee, when his passion shall...eyes are heavy: think not they are glazed with wine. Goto him: itisthyduty: kisshim: take his hand in thine. It may be my lord is weary, that his brain... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1845 - 558 pàgines
...the wife is: thou art mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. He will hold thee, when his passion shall...horse. What is this? his eyes are heavy: think not thej are glazed with wine. Go to him — it is thy duty : kiss him : take hi« hand in thine. It may... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1846 - 540 pàgines
...the wife is : thou art mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. He will hold thee, when his passion shall...little dearer than his horse. What is this? his eyes nre heavy: think not they are glazed with wine. Go to him — it is thy duty : kiss him : take his... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 254 pàgines
...the wife is : thou art mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. He will hold thee, when his passion shall...Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his i horse. What is this ? his eyes are heavy : think not they are glazed with wine. Go to him : it is... | |
 | William Howitt - 1847 - 566 pàgines
...the wife is; thoa art mated with a clown, And the coarseness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent (ts novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse. What is this 1 his... | |
 | 1922 - 1124 pàgines
...the hackneyed couplet of ' Locksley Hall,' with a trifling difference in order of preference : — He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent...better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse. It is strange to find once more the same statement and the same comparison given by Emile Augier in... | |
 | 1925 - 996 pàgines
...pur.•»tiiry of men, and the hell of horses. Contrast the lines in ' Locksley Hall ' : He will hold thcc, when his passion shall have spent its novel force,...better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse. HABJIATOPEGOS. I L. DUSSEK, MUSIC PUBLISHER ** * (cxlviii. 207). — Dussek is the same person .is... | |
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