 | Albert Walker - 1873 - 276 pagine
...years And fair descent, must make the yoke uneasy. Marriage is a desperate thing. The frogs in JEsop were extremely wise; they had a great mind to some...into the well, because they could not get out again. Selden. MISERY. Misery makes sport to mock itself. Shakespeare, If misery be the effect of virtue,... | |
 | Adversaria - 1873 - 218 pagine
...me to keep it when I have made it. Marriage is a desperate tiling. The frogs in ^Esop were extreme wise ; they had a great mind to some water, but they...into the well, because they could not get out again. We single our particulars, and apply God's providence to them : thus when two are married and have... | |
 | Philip Sheldon - 1874 - 312 pagine
...believed." CHAPTER XII. EARLY TIMES. " Marriage is a desperate thing. The frogs in j£sop were extreme wise. They had a great mind to some water, but they...into the well, because they could not get out again." — SELDEN. I DISMISS the three months which intervened between the period I have just written of and... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 334 pagine
...affection perisheth when it is satisfied. — Sir W. Raleigh to his Son. Marriage is a desperate thing. The frogs in ^Esop were extremely wise : they had...into the well because they could not get out again. — Selden. There is not so poor a book in the world that would not be a prodigious effort, were it... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 386 pagine
...when it is satisfied.— Sir W. Raleigh to his Son. Marriage is a desperate thing. The frogs in yEsop were extremely wise : they had a great mind to some...into the well because they could not get out again. — Selden. There is not so poor a book in the world that would not be n prodigious effort, were it... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pagine
...career. Marriage, for example, he characterises as ' a desperate thing : the frogs in ALsop were extreme l : The water's fall with difference discreet, Now...unto the wind did call : The gentle warbling wind low The following arc extracts from the Table-talk ; Evil Speaking. 1. He that speaks ill of another, commonly... | |
 | Beatrice May Butt - 1879 - 384 pagine
...the day. 229 CHAPTER XIX. SOME THINGS AEE SOONER MAREED THAN MADE. " Marriage is a desperate thing. The frogs in ^Esop were extremely wise ; they had...great mind to some water, but they would not leap into a well because they could not get out again." Two years have passed away since we first made acquaintance... | |
 | Beatrice May Butt - 1879 - 376 pagine
...CHAPTER XIX. SOME THINGS ARE SOONER MARRED THAN MADE. " Marriage is a desperate thing. The frogs in jEsop were extremely wise ; they had a great mind to some water, but they would not leap into a well because they could not get out again." TWO years have passed away since we first made acquaintance... | |
 | Catherine Jane Hamilton - 1879 - 474 pagine
...ah ! to-morrow ! CHAPTER II. HUSBAND AND WIFE. " Marriage ig a desperate thing. The frogs in jEsop were extremely wise : they had a great mind to some water, but they would not leap into a well, because they could not get out again." — SELDEN. •IIDDAY, glowing and sunny, was at its... | |
 | James Grant - 1881 - 458 pagine
...desperate thing. The frogs in ^Esop were extremely wise ; they had great mind to have some water, but would not leap into the well, because they could not get out again.' Duncan thought bitterly now : ' She asked me not to quit the service—that was well! " I would not... | |
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Marriage is a desperate thing. The Frogs in JEsop were extreme wise ; they had a great mind to some Water, but they would not leap into the Well, because they could not get out again. 
