| Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 498 ページ
...much like a .man, who, finding a few humours in his body, resolves to wear a perpetual blister. LXII. Married people, for being so closely united, are but the apter to part; as knots, the harder they are pulled, break the sooner. LXI1I. A family is but too often a commonwealth... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 496 ページ
...much like a man, who, finding a few humours in his body, resolves to wear a perpetual blister. LXII. Married people, for being so closely united, are but the apter to part ; as knots, the harder they are pulled, break the sooner. LXI1I. A family is but too often a commonwealth... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1812 - 322 ページ
...chastely, is much like one who finding a few humours in his body, resolves to wear a perpetual blister. Married people, for being so closely united, are but the apter to part ; as knots the harder they are pulled, break the sooner. A family is but too often a commonwealth... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 516 ページ
...husband, than one who admired the Hesperian fruit, would have had to wish himself the dragon that kept it. Married people, for being so closely united, are but the apter to part: as knots, the harder they are pulled, break the sooner. He who marries a wife, because he cannot... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 606 ページ
...chastely,ris much like one.who finding a few humours in his body, resolves tawear a perpetual blister. 'Married people, for being so closely united, are but the apter to part; as knots the harder they are pulled, break the sooner. A family is but too often a commonwealth... | |
| Woman - 1835 - 758 ページ
...abide with possession." For what famous salt is there to keep the sweets of matrimony from cloying ? " Married people, for being so closely united, are but the apter to part, — as knots, th,e harder they are pulled, break the sooner."* There is a dangerous enemy to... | |
| Caroline Frederica Beauclerk, Henrietta Mary Beauclerk - 1836 - 210 ページ
...each other rarely; for absence is the only salt that preserves matrimony from cloying. Swift says, 'Married people, for being so closely united are but the apter to part, as knots, the harder they are pulled, break the sooner.' For myself, I hold all love as mere... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1847 - 566 ページ
...chastely, is much like one who finding a few humours in his body, resolves to wear a perpetual blister. Married people, for being so closely united, are but the apter to part ; as knots the harder they are pulled, break the sooner. A family is but too often a commonwealth... | |
| Lola Montez - 1858 - 310 ページ
...is a varnish that soon wears off in the contact of constant associations. Dean Swift humorously says that " married people, for being so closely united,...knots, the harder they are pulled, break the sooner." I am afraid that the experience of too many will confirm this philosophy. I have often wondered why... | |
| C Chauncey Burr - 1858 - 208 ページ
...is a varnish that soon wears off in the contact of constant associations. Dean Swift humorously says that " married people, for being so closely united,...knots the harder they are pulled break the sooner." I am afraid that the experience of too many will confirm this philosophy. I have often wondered why... | |
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