 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 頁
...continued.] . Bread is the staff of life. Tale of a Tub. The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages. Thoughts OH Various Subjects. Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent Ibid. A... | |
 | 1870 - 300 頁
...brings forth good works, but works do not make a man good. The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages. It is better to be proud of your pride than vain of your vanity. The body — that is dust; the soul —... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1871 - 442 頁
...Ovid. "Hasty marriage seldom proveth well." — Sha/ispeare. "The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages." — Swift. " Love your wife like yourself ; honour her more than yourself. If thy wife is small, bend... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 912 頁
...desires, is like cutting off our feet wheu we want shoes. The reason why eo few marriages are happy, traditional imagery, and hereditary similes, by rea The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable; for the happy impute all their success to... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1873 - 448 頁
...the bridegroom. Hannah F. Gould. MAKING NETS, NOT CAGES. The reason why so few marriages are happy, is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages. Jonathan Swifl. CLANDESTINE MARRIAGE. It is the worst clandestine marriage when God is not invited... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 頁
...Swift continued..! Bread is the staff of life. Tale of a Tub. The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages. Thoughts on Various Subjects. Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. Ibid.... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 頁
...T/icmas More. Bread is the staff of life.1 Tale of a Tub. The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages. Thoughts on Various Subjects. Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. ibid.... | |
 | Pye Henry Chavasse - 1875 - 332 頁
...see her beauty in." — Tdbin. Swift truly says that, — "The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages." From a notice of this work in The Reader, Feb. 14, 1863. 169. If my gentle reader will freely use cold... | |
 | 1876 - 732 頁
...only, but even to grave matrons and busy mothers of families. To that question in the catechism, ivhy so many marriages prove unhappy, the catechism gives...caught, the cage should be strong enough to hold, anJ commodious enough to make the willing captive feel quite at home and sing contentedly. She who... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 386 頁
...only our silence, which costs us nothing. — Tillotson. The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages. — Swift. Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. — Co I ton. Open... | |
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The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages. 
