 | 1845 - 616 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1842 - 316 pages
...thou bcholdest 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...chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages, prince's palaces. He is a good divine that follows his own instructions : I can easier teach twenty... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - Elocution - 1847 - 344 pages
...the dial-plate', so the advances we make in knowledge are only perceived by the distance gone over\ If to do were as easy as to know what were good' to...churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces\ While dangers are at a distance, and do not immediately' approach us — let us not conclude that we... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Mary Cowden Clarke - 1848 - 160 pages
...and the widow weeps. If a man will be beaten with brains, he shall wear nothing handsome about him. If to do were as easy as to know what were good to...is a good divine that follows his own instructions. — O It is a wise father that knows his own child. It is a hard matter for friends to meet ; but mountains... | |
 | India - 1848 - 618 pages
...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) - Women in literature - 1850 - 398 pages
...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 - 690 pages
...longer. FOR. Good sentences, and well pronounced. NER. They would be better, if well followed. POR. If to do were as easy as to know what were good 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 - Oceania - 1851 - 382 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Dion Boucicault, Royal General Theatrical Fund Association - Actors - 1852 - 50 pages
...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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