| Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1878 - 556 Seiten
...Polit;cal State of Great Britain," for August, 1716. Dr. Johnson says that the marriage was " on terms very much like those on which a Turkish princess is espoused,...— ' Daughter, I give thee this man for thy slave.' At any rate Addison's married life was not happy, though it was of short duration, for on June 17,... | |
| 1879 - 748 Seiten
...resigned in 171S. Theu as to the other matter, Dr Johnson sarcastically remarks, that "the lady was persuaded to marry him on terms much like those on...pronounce: 'Daughter, I give thee this man for thy slave.' " No one can donbt that this marriage was a mistake on the part of A. His health had been for some... | |
| Abraham Hayward - 1880 - 444 Seiten
...certainly timorous, but grew bolder as his reputation and influence increased ; till at last the lady was persuaded to marry him, on terms much like those on...slave.' The marriage, if uncontradicted report can be accredited, made no addition to his happiness. It neither found nor made them equal. She always remembered... | |
| Abraham Hayward - 1880 - 494 Seiten
...certainly timorous, but grew bolder as his reputation and influence increased ; till at last the lady was persuaded to marry him, on terms much like those on...slave.' The marriage, if uncontradicted report can be accredited, made no addition to his happiness. It neither found nor made them equal. She always remembered... | |
| 1880 - 890 Seiten
...resigned in 1718. Then as to the other matter, Dr. Johnson sarcastically remarks that " the lady was persuaded to marry him on terms much like those on...pronounce: 'Daughter, I give thee this man for thy slave.' " No one can doubt that this marriage was a mistake on the part of A. His health had been for some... | |
| Abraham Hayward - 1880 - 440 Seiten
...certainly timorous, but grew bolder as his reputation and influence increased ; till at last the lady was persuaded to marry him, on terms much like those on...whom the Sultan is reported to pronounce, ' Daughter, T give thee this man for thy slave.' The marriage, if uncontradicted report can be accredited, made... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1880 - 182 Seiten
...character, whom he is said to have first known by becoming tutor to her son. She probably took him on terms like those on which a Turkish princess is espoused, to whom the Sultan is reported to say : "Daughter, I give thee this man for thy slave." The marriage neither found nor made them equal,... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 878 Seiten
...avenges, perhaps, on the pill-lie their neglect of the play ! * " The lady was persuaded to ninrry him on terms much like those on which a Turkish princess...uncontradicted report can be credited, made no addition to Ins happiness; it neither found them, nor made them, equal Rowe's ballad of ' The Despairing Shepherd... | |
| Robert Weir Brown - 1881 - 348 Seiten
...place did this objection disappear. " At length," says Dr. Johnson, pompously cynical, " the lady was persuaded to marry him, on terms much like those on...' Daughter, I give thee this man for thy slave.'" In our own day it would scarcely be considered a mesalliance for a Countess to marry the son of a Dean... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1882 - 874 Seiten
...reasonest well," which avenges, perhaps, on the public their neglect of the play ! * " The lady was persuaded to marry him on terms much like those on...happiness; it neither found them, nor made them, equal Rowe's ballad of ' The Despairing Shepherd ' is said to have been written, either before or after marriage,... | |
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