 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1841 - 732 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... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - Authors, English - 1843 - 276 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, if uncontradicted report can be credited, made no addition to his happiness;... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Love poetry - 1844 - 384 pages
...Lady 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 of Litehfield, and grand-daughter... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 714 pages
...certainly timorous, but grew holder as his reputation and influence increased; till at last tlie lady w;is persuaded to marry him, on terms much like those on...whom the Sultan is reported to pronounce, " Daughter, 1 give thee this man for thy slave." The marriage, if uiicontradicted report can be credited, made... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English essays - 1852 - 264 pages
...suit. ' On the 2nd August, 1716,' continues the biographer of the poets, ' he married the Countess, on terms much like those on which a Turkish Princess...reported to pronounce, "Daughter, I give thee this man for thy slave ! " ' This marriage was only a change from one sort of unhappiness to another, — from... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English essays - 1852 - 266 pages
...suit. ' On the 2nd August, 1716,' continues the biographer of the poets, ' he married the Countess, on terms much like those on which a Turkish Princess...reported to pronounce, "Daughter, I give thee this man for thy slave ! " ' This marriage was only a change from one sort of unhappiness to another, —from... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1853 - 360 pages
...ladyship in 1716; and died at Holland House three years after that splendid but dismal union.1 1 " 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1853 - 332 pages
...Plato, thou reasonest well," which avenges, perhaps, on the public their neglect of the play ! 1 " 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 - 1854 - 344 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, if uncontradicted report can be credited, made no addition to his happiness... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1854 - 306 pages
...Plato, thou reasonest well," which avenges, perhaps, on the public their neglect of the play ! 1 " The lady was persuaded to marry him on terms much...reported to pronounce, ' Daughter, I give thee this man for thy slave.' The (ferriage, if uncontradicted report can be credited, made no addition to his happiness... | |
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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. 
