 | 1882 - 736 pages
...aided us, minds that have thought for us, are true, and they were her sons. For their sakes, let us ' Be to her virtues very kind, Be to her faults a little blind." EUSTACE B. ROGERS, ALUMNI AND ALUMNI CHAPTERS. Fraternity graduates are far too apt to imagine that... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 pages
...Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn. 2518 Bailey: Festus. Sc. Home. Be to her virtues very kind ; Be to her faults a little blind. 2519 Prior: An English Padlock. SINGS — see Court, Loyalty, Princes, Royalty, War. The king-becoming... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pages
...wretched are the wise.* Ibid. Odds life ! must one swear to the truth of a song ? A Better Anitoer. Be to her virtues very kind ; Be to her faults a little blind. An English Padlock. That, if weak women went astray, Their stars were more in fault than they. Hans... | |
 | Thomas Hunter - 1884 - 670 pages
...worse. 21. Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. 22. Be to her virtues very kind ; Be to her faults a little blind. 23. Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer... | |
 | 1888 - 438 pages
...Arms : Seem more delighted with her Charms : Wait on her to the Park and Play : Put on good Humour ; make Her gay : Be to her Virtues very kind : Be to her Faults a little blind : Let all her Ways.be unconfin'd: And clap your PADLOCK — on her Mind.'' It is not, however, by Alma, or his tales... | |
 | Matthew Prior - 1889 - 326 pages
...Anns : Seem more delighted with her Charms '. Wait on Her to the Park and Play : Put on good Humour ; make Her gay : Be to her Virtues very kind : Be to...unconfin'd : And clap your PADLOCK — on her Mind." It is not, however, by Alma, or his tales and episodes, but by his lighter pieces, that Prior escapes... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1890 - 1078 pages
...foe. I think it was Chatham who, speaking of the rebels in America, quoted the lines of Prior — " Bs to her virtues very kind, Be to her faults a little blind. And clap a padlock on the mind." Those were words of wisdom and statesmanship, and that is the statesmanship... | |
 | 1891 - 406 pages
...FH Wood. — " He found his virtue too severe For our corrupted times to bear." Miss Worster — " Be to her virtues very kind; Be to her faults a little blind. ' ' /. \V. Young. — " There is a fair behavior in thee, Captain." Miss Abbott. — " Look down, you... | |
 | Beatrice Whitby - 1891 - 332 pages
...sorry, Luttrell ; don't expect too much. I have been hard in my time — I have been very hard — " ' Be to her virtues very kind, Be to her faults a little blind.' " That's wisdom, Luttrell, and true manliness. That is good to be remembered when virtues and faults... | |
 | Arthur D. Hall, Robert L. Downing - 1892 - 328 pages
...laughing eyes and roguish mouth, what shall we say of her as we bid her farewell ? What, indeed, save Bs to her virtues very kind, Be to her faults a little blind. And Nell's virtues far outweighed her faults. Forgive her the one error, which was more forced upon... | |
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Be to her virtues very kind ; Be to her faults a little blind ; Let all her ways be unconfin'd ; And clap your padlock — on her mind. 
