 | 1848 - 618 str.
...practised, proceeds many a doleful epitome of domestic misery. — " If to do," says the fair Portia," were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels...churches and poor men's cottages princes' palaces."§ It was man's general want of prudence that probably drew forth the sage's reply, who being asked when... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1850 - 398 str.
...profound, that they have passed into familiar and daily application, with all the force of proverbs. If to do, were as easy as to know what were good to...churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and I think The nightingale,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 688 str.
...be seated in the mean ; superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. FOR. Good sentences, and well pronounced. NER. They would...good divine that follows his own instructions : I cau easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.... | |
 | Henry Theodore Cheever - 1851 - 406 str.
...Good sentences, and well pronounced. Nerissa. — They would be better, if well followed. Portia. — If to do were as easy as to know what were good to...churches, and poor men's cottages, princes' palaces. It 13 a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to be... | |
 | William Enfield, James Pycroft - 1851 - 422 str.
...moving how express and admirable ! in action how like an angel ! in apprehension how like a god ! If lo do, were as easy as to know what were good to do,...churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. He is a good divine who follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 str.
...be seated in the mean ; superfluity comes sooner by white hairs4 ; but competency lives longer. For. Good sentences, and well pronounced. Ner. They would...chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages 1 Formerly. < " To come by white hairs," is to a See note 1, p. 25G. grow old and weak ; to be sick... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1842 - 322 str.
...thou beholdest them, think how thou art beholden to Him who suffered thee not to be like them. 23. If to do, were as easy as to know what were good to...churches, and poor men's cottages, princes' palaces. He is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty what were good to... | |
 | Joseph Barlow Felt - 1852 - 358 str.
...measure. I judge not between you." This month. From Shaw to William E. Channing in Richmond, Va. " If to do were as easy as to know what were good to...churches, and poor men's cottages, princes' palaces, and I should long since have written to you, the neglect of which has not been owing to a want of inclination,... | |
 | 1852 - 346 str.
...have you to divide again ! " was the cool rejoinder. Truly hath, the master-poet of nature said, " If to do were as easy as to know what were good to...churches, and poor men's cottages, princes' palaces ! " SLANDER. There is the SLANDEROUS tongue, which in its malignity scatters abroad "fire brands, arrows,... | |
 | Dion Boucicault, Royal General Theatrical Fund Association - 1852 - 50 str.
...visits are not so few and far between as one of those luminaries. — (Cheers.) Our poet tells us, " If to do, were as easy as to know what were good to...churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces." Gentlemen, what you have to do is easy enough to accomplish : it is only to be as generous as ever... | |
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