 Some would have children : those that have them, moan Or wish them gone : What is it, then, to have, or have no wife, But single thraldom, or a double strife ? Our own affections still at home to please Is a disease : To cross the seas to any foreign...  The Gentleman's Magazine - Side 2321812Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 562 sider
...children ; those that have them moan Or wish them gone : What is it, then, to have or have no wife, Lut single thraldom or a double strife ? Our own affections still at home to please Isa disease ; To cross the seas to any foreign soil, Peri] and toil ; Wars with their noise affright... | |
 | William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard - 1883 - 396 sider
...no wife, But single thraldom or a double strife ? Our own affections still at home to please Peril and toil ; Wars with their noise affright us ; when they cease, We are worse in peace. What then remains but that we still should cry For being born or, being born, to... | |
 | William Henry Smith - 1884 - 60 sider
...Or do things worse. These — would have children— those that have them — none, What is it then to have — or have no wife But single thraldom —...still at home to please Is a disease. To cross the seas to any foreign soil, Labour and toil. Wars with their noise affright us — when they cease We're... | |
 | William Henry Smith (of Brompton.) - 1884 - 58 sider
...curse, Or do things worse. These — would have children —those that have themnone, What is it then to have — or have no wife But single thraldom —...still at home to please Is a disease. To cross the seas to any foreign soil, Labour and toil. Wars with their noise affright us — when they cease We're... | |
 | Philip Schaff, Arthur Gilman - 1885 - 1148 sider
...Some would have children ; those that have them moan Or wish them gone. What is it, then, to hive, or have no wife, But single thraldom or a double strife ? Our own affection still at home to please Is a disease : To cross the seas to any foreign soil, Perils and... | |
 | George Seton - 1887 - 214 sider
...worse ; Some would have children, those that have them moan, Or wish them gone : What is it, then, to have, or have no wife, But single thraldom, or a double strife ? " The same learned writer, in one of his incomparable Essays, quaintly describes wives as "young... | |
 | Theodore Martin - 1888 - 90 sider
...things worse. Some would have children: those that have them moan, Or wish them gone. What is it, then, to have or have no wife, But single thraldom or a...still at home to please Is a disease: To cross the seas to any foreign soil, Perils and toil. Wars with their noise affright us ; when they cease, We're... | |
 | 1888 - 746 sider
...things worse; Some would have children; those that have them moan, Or wish them gone: What is it, then, to have or have no wife, But single thraldom or a...still at home to please Is a disease: To cross the seas to any foreign soil. Perils and toil; Wars with their noise affright us: when they cease, We are... | |
 | 1890 - 332 sider
...things worse : Some would have children ; those that have them none ; Or wish them gone. What is it then to have or have no wife But single thraldom or a double...with their noise affright us : when they cease We are worse in peace. What then remains, but that we still should cry, Not to be born, or being born,... | |
 | Robert Yelverton Tyrrell - 1890 - 534 sider
...worse : These would have children ; those that have them moan, Or wish them gone : What is it, then, to have or have no wife, But single thraldom or a...still at home to please Is a disease ; To cross the seas to any foreign soil, Peril and toil ; Wars with their noise affright us ; when they cease, We're... | |
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