| Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1878 - 538 páginas
...Political 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 páginas
...parliament— a thing indispensable to one in his position. He consequently resigned in 171S. Theu as to the other matter, Dr Johnson sarcastically remarks,...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 time in a very... | |
| Abraham Hayward - 1880 - 470 páginas
...first were certainly timorous, but grew bolder as his reputation and influence increased; till at last the lady was persuaded to marry him, on terms much...pronounce, 'Daughter, I give thee this man for thy slave.' The marriage, if uncontradicted report can be accredited, made no addition to his happiness. It neither... | |
| Abraham Hayward - 1880 - 444 páginas
...first were certainly timorous, but grew bolder as his reputation and influence increased ; till at last the lady was persuaded to marry him, on terms much...pronounce, ' Daughter, I give thee this man for thy slave.' The marriage, if uncontradicted report can be accredited, made no addition to his happiness. It neither... | |
| Abraham Hayward - 1880 - 440 páginas
...first were certainly timorous, but grew bolder as his reputation and influence increased ; till at last the lady was persuaded to marry him, on terms much...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 páginas
...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,... | |
| Robert Weir Brown - 1881 - 348 páginas
...ultimately took place did this objection disappear. " At length," says Dr. Johnson, pompously cynical, " the lady was persuaded to marry him, on terms much...' 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 - 1881 - 878 páginas
...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...pronounce, ' Daughter, I give thee this man for thy slave.' The marriage, if uncontradicted report can be credited, made no addition to Ins happiness; it neither... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1882 - 874 páginas
...Plato, thou reasonest well," which avenges, perhaps, on the public their neglect of the play ! * " The lady was persuaded to marry him on terms much...pronounce, ' Daughter, I give thee this man for thy slave.' The marriage, if uncontradicted report can be credited, made no addition to his happiness; it neither... | |
| 1883 - 840 páginas
...Tories on the other.' This enthusiasm was a delusion which time baa effectually dispelled. In 1716. Л. married the Dowager-countess of Warwick, and in the...terms much like those on which a Turkish princess is «spoused — to whom the sultan ¡a reported to pronounce: "Daughter, I give thee this man for thy... | |
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