 | William Wycherley, Leigh Hunt - 1840 - 782 pages
...morning sun his tinseU'd harness gild«, And the Hrst stage a down-hill green-sward yitils. But oh— What rugged ways attend the noon of life ! Our sun...strife, What pain we tug that galling load, a wife ! All coursers the first heat with vigour run ; But 'tis with whip and spur the race is won. EPILOGUE... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 438 pages
...Congreve to have looked again at his own comedies before he used this argument. Collier did so; and found that the moral of the " Old Bachelor"— the...to be a set-off against all the libertinism of the piece—is contained in the following triplet:— " What rugged ways attend the noon of life! Our sun... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1853 - 596 pages
...Congreve to have looked again at his own comedies before he used this argument. Collier did so ; and found that the moral of the Old Bachelor, the grave...strife, What pain, we tug that galling load — a wife." " Love for Love," says Collier, " may have a somewhat better farewell, but it would do a man little... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1854 - 354 pages
...Congreve to have looked again at his own comedies before he used this argument. Collier did so ; and found that the moral of the " Old Bachelor" — the...strife, What pain, we tug that galling load — a wife." " Love for Love," says Collier, " may have a somewhat better farewell, but it would do a man little... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1854 - 452 pages
...Congreve to have looked again at his own comedies before he used this argument. Collier did so ; and found that the moral of the Old Bachelor, the grave...following triplet : "What rugged ways attend the noon of Our sun declines, and with what anxious What pain, we tug that galling load— a wife." " Love for... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 128 pages
...Congreve to have looked again at his own comedies before he used this argument. Collier did so; and found that the moral of the Old Bachelor, the grave...strife, What pain, we tug that galling load — a wife." " Love for Love," says Collier, " may have a somewhat better farewell, but it would do a man little... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 450 pages
...Congreve to have looked again at his own comedies before he used this argument. Collier did so ; and found that the moral of the Old Bachelor, the grave...strife, What pain, we tug that galling load — a wife." " Love for Love," says Collier, " may have a somewhat better farewell, but it would do a man little... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1008 pages
...Congreve to have looked again at his own comedies before he used this argument. Collier did so ; and found that the moral of the Old Bachelor, the grave...piece is contained in the following triplet : " What ragged ways attend the noon of life ! Our sun declines, and with what anxious strife, What pain, we... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 950 pages
...Congreve to have looked again at his own comfdies before he used this argument. Collier did so ; and found that the moral of the Old Bachelor, the grave...all the libertinism of the piece is contained in the folio-wing triplet : " What ragged ways attend the noon of life! Our nun declines, and with what mixious... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 444 pages
...set>off against all the libertinism of the piece is contained in the following triplet : " What ragged ways attend the noon of life ! Our sun declines, and...strife, What pain, we tug that galling load — a wife." " Love for Love," says Collier, " may have a somewhat better farewell, but it would do a man little... | |
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Love for Love," says Collier, " may have a somewhat better farewell, but it would do a man little service should he remember it to his dying day:" " The miracle to-day is that we find A lover true, not that a woman's kind. 
