 | 1848 - 618 էջ
...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... | |
 | Frank Edward Smedley - 1850 - 582 էջ
...took up my gun, and set off for a day's shooting with Harry Oaklands. CHAPTER XX. ALHA MATER. " He's a good divine that follows his own instructions; I...good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow my own teaching.—The brain may devise laws for the blood, bat a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree."—Mirchant... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1850 - 398 էջ
...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 - 408 էջ
...sooner by white hairs, buf competency lives longer. SPECULATION MORE EAS.Y THAN PRACTICE. If to do wore as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had...teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one ol 'he twenty to follow mine own teaching. The brain may devise laws for the blood; but a hot temper... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 688 էջ
...sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. FOR. Good sentences, and well pronounced. NER. They would be better, if well followed. POR. If to...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 - 382 էջ
...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 էջ
...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 էջ
...sooner by white hairs4 ; but competency lives longer. For. Good sentences, and well pronounced. Ner. They would be better, if well followed. Por. If to...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... | |
 | 1852 - 348 էջ
...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,... | |
 | Joseph Barlow Felt - 1852 - 358 էջ
...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,... | |
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If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than to be one of the... 
