 | James Smith - Wilton (England) - 1851 - 222 pages
...of his natural constitution, or for want of his domestic content and delight, (in which he was most unhappy, for he paid much too dear for his wife's fortune, by taking her person into the bargain) he was immoderately given up. But therein he likewise retained such a power... | |
 | Robert Bayne - Country homes - 1871 - 156 pages
...admits that he was not without his vices, which he attributes to his want of domestic happiness. " He paid much too dear for his wife's fortune by taking her person into the bargain." His end was sudden and affecting. While his friends were keeping his birthday,... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 558 pages
...Gilbert Talbot, seventh earl of Shrewsbury. Clarendon says that Pembroke's domestic life was " most unhappy, for he paid much too dear for his wife's fortune by taking her person into the bargain." * This piece of information is very interesting, for the Epistle or Preface... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - English drama - 1875 - 560 pages
...Gilbert Talbot, seventh earl of Shrewsbury. Clarendon says that Pembroke's domestic life was " most unhappy, for he paid much too dear for his wife's fortune by taking her person into the bargain." 6 This piece of information is very interesting, for the Epistle or Preface... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1884 - 1142 pages
...of his natural constit ut ion, or for want of his domestic content and delight, in which he was most unhappy (for he paid much too dear for his wife's fortune by taking her person into the bargain), be was immediately given up. But then he likewise retained such a power and... | |
 | Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle - 1886 - 530 pages
...This marriage took place in 1606. Clarendon in his character of the Earl (Rebellion, i. 120) says, " He paid much too dear for his wife's fortune by taking her person into the bargain." 4 The Earl of Kent died in 1639, the Countess on December 7, 1651. After... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Great Britain - 1888 - 664 pages
...of his natural constitution, or for want of his domestic content and delight, (in which he was most unhappy, for he paid much too dear for his wife's fortune by taking her person into the bargain,) he was immoderately given up to women. But therein he likewise retained such... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - Literary Criticism - 1889 - 398 pages
...of his natural constitution, or for want of his domestic content and delight, (in which he was most unhappy, for he paid much too dear for his wife's fortune, by taking her person into the bargain,) he was immoderately given up. But therein he likewise retained such a power... | |
 | Joseph Tilley (of Derby, Eng.) - Architecture, Domestic - 1893 - 352 pages
...sent them on to the same library. We assume he caught a Tartar in Mary Talbot, for his biographer says "he paid much too dear for his wife's fortune by taking her person into the bargain." It is on record (Lodge mentions it, too) that when the earl was embalmed... | |
 | English philology - 1928 - 432 pages
...iv, p. 195 (1892), c. 1668. [NED Only example 1674, and meaning there is not altogether metaphorical. 'He paid much too dear for his wife's fortune, by taking her person into the bargain.' One example ( 1 636) with 'to' instead of 'into', but again not wholly metaphorical.]... | |
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