 | Virginia Waddy - English language - 1889 - 432 pages
...children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not ! 11. Princes in their infancy, childhood, and youth, are said to discover prodigious parts and wit, to speak thirrgs that surprise and astonish ; strange, so many hopeful princes, so many shameful kings ! If... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 452 pages
...from the contrary. Kings are commonly said to have long hands; I wish they had as long ears. Princes, in their infancy, childhood, and youth, are said to...surprise and astonish : strange, so many hopeful princes, so many shameful kings! If they happen to die young, they would have been prodigies of wisdom and virtue:... | |
 | Harold Littledale - Arthurian romances - 1893 - 378 pages
...elephants bowed before her, we 1 Sec Grote, chap. Ixxxiv., and compare Swift's saying : " 1'rinces in their infancy, childhood, and youth, are said to discover prodigious parts and wit, to speak tilings that surprise and astonish : strange, so many hopeful princes, so many shameful kings ! If... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1897 - 478 pages
...any man a lawyer. Kings are commonly said to have long hands ; I wish they had as long ears. Princes in their infancy, childhood, and youth, are said to...prodigies of wisdom and virtue : if they live, they are often prodigies indeed, but of another sort. 1 Harley. [S.] Politics, as the word is commonly understood,... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - American essays - 1900 - 462 pages
...any man a lawyer. Kings are commonly said to have long hands; I wish they had as long ears. Princes in their infancy, childhood, and youth are said to...prodigies of wisdom and virtue. If they live, they are often prodigies indeed, but of another sort. Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - English literature - 1902 - 452 pages
...any man a lawyer. Kings are commonly said to have long hands; I wish they had as long ears. Princes in their infancy, childhood, and youth are said to...prodigies of wisdom and virtue. If they live, they are often prodigies indeed, but of another sort. Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1902 - 864 pages
...time. Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time. Princes hambers so many shameful kings ! If they happen to die young, they would have been prodigies of wisdom and... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1902 - 860 pages
...but ire providing to live another time. Princes in their infancy, childhood, and youth are said 10 discover prodigious parts and wit, to speak things...surprise and astonish : strange, so many hopeful princes, so many shameful kings ! If they happen to tic young, they would have been prodigies of wisdom anj... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - Literature - 1910 - 330 pages
...from the contrary. Kings are commonly said to have long hands; I wish they had as long ears. Princes, in their infancy, childhood and youth, '^ are said...speak things that surprise and astonish: strange, 3r BO many hopeful princes, so many shameful kings! If they happen to die young, they would have been... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1907 - 444 pages
...any man a lawyer. Kings are commonly said to have long hands ; I wish they had as long ears. Princes in their infancy, childhood, and youth, are said to...prodigies of wisdom and virtue : if they live, they are often prodigies indeed, but of another sort 1 Harley. [S.] Politics, as the word is commonly understood,... | |
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Kings are commonly said to have long hands ; I wish they had as long ears. Princes in their infancy, childhood, and youth are said to discover prodigious... 
