 | 1830 - 388 pages
...believe bii partician bride did every thing but beat him. His courtship had been long, timid, •ml anxious ; and at length the lady was persuaded to...only three years married, and those were years of bilternes. — Loves of the Poett. A WORD ! — A late Number of the Cherokee Phoenix furuisb.es an... | |
 | 1834 - 508 pages
...were certainly timorous, but grew bolder as his reputation and influence increased; till, at last, the lady was persuaded to marry him, on terms much...reported to pronounce, ' Daughter, I give thee this man for thy slave.' The marriage, if uncontradicted report can be credited, made no addition to his happiness... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1835 - 476 pages
...first were certainly timorous, but grew bolder as his reputation and influence increased ; till at last the lady was persuaded to marry him, on terms much...sultan is reported to pronounce, " Daughter, I give thee4his man for thy slave." The marriage, if uncontradicted report can be credited, made no addition... | |
 | Ballads, English - 1835 - 378 pages
...his own, namely Addison. Dr. Johnson says that the Countess married the poetical Secretary of State on terms " much like those on which a Turkish Princess...reported to pronounce, ' Daughter, I give thee this man for thy slave.' " A marriage so unequal made no addition to Addison's happiness.] MY DAYS HAVE BEEN... | |
 | England - 1835 - 794 pages
...says that the Countess married tile poetical Secretary of State on terms " much like those on which > Turkish Princess is espoused, to whom the Sultan is reported to pronounce, ' Daughter, I gire thee this man for thy slave.'" A 1seriate so unequal made no addition to Addison's happiness.]... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Women - 1837 - 394 pages
...Elizabeth was a young spoiled beauty of rank, married to a man she loved ; and her wish, methinks, was very feminine and natural : if it was spoken with...were years of bitterness. Young, the author of the Night Thoughts, married Lady Elizabeth Lee, the daughter of the Earl * Johnson's Life of Addison. of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...first were certainly timorous, but grew bolder as his reputation and influence increased ; till at last have been impatient, violent, and ungovernable. Her...liberty and choice would have come in time. But her 1 give thee this man for thy slave." The marriage, if uncontradicted report can be credited, made no... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1840 - 522 pages
...first were certainly timorous, but grew bolder as his reputation and influence increased ; till at last the lady was persuaded to marry him, on terms much...Sultan is reported to pronounce, " Daughter, I give tliee this mart for thy slave." The marriage, if uncontradicted report can be credited, made no addition... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 pages
...first were certainly timorous, but grew bolder as his reputation and influence increased ; till at last the lady was persuaded to marry him, on terms much...whom the Sultan is reported to pronounce, " Daughter, 1 give thee this man for thy slave." The marriage, if uncontradicted report can be credited, made no... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - England - 1841 - 300 pages
...first, were certainly timorous,'but grew bolder as his reputation and influence increased ; till at last the lady was persuaded to marry him, on terms much...reported to pronounce,' daughter, I give thee this man for thy slave.' The marriage made no addition to his happiness; it neither found them, nor made them... | |
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The marriage, if uncontradicted report can be credited, made no addition to his happiness ; it neither found them nor made them equal. 
