 | James Plumptre - Songs, English - 1811 - 486 pages
...May. The following Songs may perhaps be more properly termed ingenious than witty. IV. A GOOD WIFE. 1 A Wife domestic, good and pure, Like Snail, should keep within her door; Bnit not like Snail, in silvcr'd track, Place all her wealth upon her back. K k'J 2 A Wife should be... | |
 | 1812 - 302 pages
...THINGS A GOOD WIFE OUGHT TO BE, AND THE THREE. THINGS A GOOD W1F1 OUGHT NOT TO BE. A WIFE, doraestick, good, and pure, Like snail should keep within her door— But not like snail in sil vcr'd track, Place all her wealth upon her back. A wife should be like echo true, And speak but... | |
 | English essays - 1822 - 494 pages
...they hit the foe, the day's their own ; If nature gets the hurt, the patient's gone ! A GOOD WIFE. A wife, domestic, good, and pure, Like snail, should keep within her door ; But not like snail, in silver track, Place all her wealth upon her back. A wife should be like echo true, And courteous speak,... | |
 | English wit & humor - 1825 - 204 pages
...two cows, and the observation I made was, he only grew the greater calf for that. Siniiks on a Wife. A wife domestic, good, and pure, Like snail should...her door ; But not like snail, in silver'd track, Vlace all her wealth upon her back. A wife should be like echo true, And speak but when she's spoken... | |
 | New York (N.Y.) - 1839 - 226 pages
...wife domestie, good and pure, Like snai! should keep within her door, But not like snail, in silver track, Place all- her wealth upon her back. A wife should be like echo trae, And speak but when she's spoken to: But not, like echo, still be heard Contending for the final... | |
 | Ann Jane - 1851 - 964 pages
...should hear much and speak little!" THREE THINGS A WIFE SHOULD BE, AND THREE THINGS A WIFE SHOULD NOT BE. A wife, domestic, good, and pure, Like snail should keep within her door ; But not like snail, in silver track, Place all her wealth upon her back ! Like a town-clock a wife should be, Keep time and... | |
 | C. Gough - 1853 - 428 pages
...Ireland. THREE THINGS WHICH A GOOD WIFE SHOULD BE LIKE, AND THREE THINGS WHICH SHE SHOULD NOT BE LIKE. A wife, domestic, good and pure, Like snail should...Place all her wealth upon her back. A wife should he like echo true, And speak but when she's spoken to ; But not like echo, still be heard, Contending... | |
 | 1854 - 400 pages
...timid or fastidious. — Oliphant. THREE THINGS A WIFE SHOULD BE, AND THREE THINGS A WIFE SHOULD NOT BE. A WIFE, domestic, good, and pure, Like snail,...should keep within her door; But not, like snail, in silver track, Place all her wealth upon her back ! Like a town-clock a wife should be, Keep time and... | |
 | George R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Jacobs Peterson, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Robert Taylor Conrad, Joseph Ripley Chandler, Bayard Taylor - 1855 - 632 pages
...down his pipe, because she gives up her weeds?" Of course some of our readers must have seen this:— "A wife, domestic, good and pure, Like snail, should keep within her door ; But not, like snail, in silver track, Place all her wealth upon her back. A wife should be like echo true, And speak but when... | |
 | 1856 - 806 pages
...superior woman, and has always some sick nurses or others staying with her for change." THE WIPE. A WIPE, domestic, good, and pure, Like snail should keep within her door; But not like snail in silver track, Place all her wealth upon her back ! Like a town clock a wife should be, Keep time and... | |
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A WIFE, domestic, good, and pure, Like snail should keep within her door— But not like snail in silver'd track, Place all her wealth upon her back. 
