| John Adolphus - 1810 - 538 strani
...follow the example. There are two lines in ar ballad of Prior, on a man's behaviour to his wife, fo applicable to you and your colonies that I cannot help repeating them j " Be to her faults a little blind : " Be to her virtues very kind.——" P In In conclufion, he... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1812 - 316 strani
...will follow the example. There are two lines in a ballad of Prior's, of a man's behaviour to bis wife, so applicable to you and your colonies, that I cannot help repeating them: Hi ' to her faulu a III lie blind; Be to her virtncs very kind. Upon the whole, I will beg leave to... | |
| William Cobbett - 1813 - 726 strani
...follow the example. There are two lines •in a ballad of Prior's, of a man's behaviour to his wife, so applicable to you and your colonies, that I cannot...her faults a little blind : ' Be to her virtues very kiud.' Upon the whole, I will beg leave to tell the House what is really my opinion. It is, that the... | |
| Thomas Dibdin - 1815 - 490 strani
...Young men and old peruse the bard. A female trusted to your care, His rule is pithy, short, and clear ; Be to her faults a little blind ; Be to her virtues very kind ; Let ail her ways be uiicoiilin'il ; And clap your padlock on her mind. Cho. Be to her faults, &c.... | |
| William Cobbett - 1815 - 746 strani
...of Ireland as the illustrious father of the present minister did upon another serious occasion : " Be to her faults a little blind, " Be to her virtues very kind." Might he not plead the same for our impassioned neighbours, especially when they recollected, what... | |
| John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1818 - 894 strani
...rooted in the philosophy of Nature and of man. * Chopping of wood was with him a favourite exercise. ' Be to her faults a little blind ; Be to her virtues very kind ; Let all her ways be unconfin'd ; And put your fetters on lier mind;' Is the advice of Prior to the... | |
| John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1818 - 890 strani
...rooted in the philosophy of Nature and of man. * Chopping of wood was with him a favourite exercise. ' Be to her faults a little blind ; Be to her virtues very kind ; Let all her ways be unconfin'd; And put your fetters on her mind ;' is the advice of Prior to the... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1819 - 484 strani
...ears, calls her little fondling names, Religion, Morality, and Social Order, takes for his motto, " Be to her faults a little blind, Be to her virtues very kind " — sticks close to his filthy bargain, and will not give her up, because she keeps him, and he is... | |
| British essayists - 1819 - 376 strani
...mortal rake-hells lewd With all their midnight arts purused, Had not FRANCIS, vol. ii. p. 77. APAPTED. Be to her faults a little blind, Be to her virtues very kind, And clap your padlock on her mind, j PADLOCK. ' MR. SPECTATOR, ' YOUR correspondent's letter relating... | |
| Paul Allen - 1822 - 624 strani
...Great Britain to adopt, in relation to America, is happily expressed in the words of a favourite poet: "Be to her faults a little blind, Be to her virtues very kind ; Let all her ways be unconfin'd, And clap your padlock on her mind." Upon the whole, I will beg leave... | |
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