 | Duchess - 1897 - 330 pages
...THE DUCHESS") AUTHOR OF " A LONELY MAID," " A POINT OF CONSCIENCE,' " THE COMING OF CHLOE," ETC. " Be to her virtues very kind, Be to her faults a little blind" PHILADELPHIA JB LIPPINCOTT COMPANY -Jfc. 104913B T".1 v *' * ICOPYRIGHT, 1896 ET JB LIPPINCOTT COMPANY... | |
 | Lady Randolph Spencer Churchill - 1900 - 284 pages
...understands what you say.' Prior had in satiric vein advised more freedom than women then enjoyed : Be to her virtues very kind ; Be to her faults a little...unconfin'd ; And clap your padlock — on her mind. The padlock had not been neglected. The learned woman of the sixteenth century had long gone out of... | |
 | Lady Randolph Spencer Churchill - 1900 - 294 pages
...and the Cocoa Tree; but they spared little time, and found little joy, in any drawing-room whatever. 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. The padlock had not been neglected. The learned woman of the sixteenth century... | |
 | Hall Downing - 1901 - 320 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... | |
 | Henry Pemberton - 1902 - 420 pages
...one, and trifling annoyances at times are hard to bear. He should ever remember as Prior writes : " Be to her virtues very kind ; be to her faults a little blind." Among the many previsions manifested for the welfare of man, none can conduce so much thereto as when... | |
 | Hialmer Day Gould, Edward Louis Hessenmueller - 1904 - 920 pages
...with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself.— Richard Bentley, 1662-1742. Be to her virtues very kind; Be to her faults a little blind. — Matthew Prior, 1664-1721. For hope is but the dream of those that wake. — Matthew Prior. Who... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott - 1905 - 194 pages
...friend is kind, one who harps upon such errors destroys friendship." As Matthew Prior expressed it, "Be to her virtues very kind ; Be to her faults a little blind." P. 80, 1. 23. The hearing ear. " The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue." —... | |
 | Francis Asbury Sampson, Floyd Calvin Shoemaker - 1923 - 594 pages
...may have been taught us even though, as a native of Missouri, he may have forgotten the old couplet, "Be to her virtues very kind; Be to her faults a little blind." Burns gave excellent advice which has aided all ensuing generations when he spoke of seeing "ouisel's... | |
 | 1906 - 810 pages
...A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind, DAVID GARRICK, Prologue on Quitting the Stage, June, 1776 Be to her virtues very kind ; Be to her faults a little blind,1 MATTHEW PRIOR, English Padlock, lines 78, 79 If she be not so to me What care I how kind she... | |
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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. 
