 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 384 pages
...mortal rake-hells lewd With all their midnight arts pursu'd, Had not FRANCIS, vol. ii. p. 77. ADAPTED. Be to her faults a little blind, Be to her virtues very kind, And clap your padlock on her mind. PADI.O8K. * MR. SPECTATOR, ' YOUR correspondent's letter relating... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 316 pages
...them for the madness yon have occasioned ? Rather let prudence and temper come first from this side. I will undertake for America that she will follow the...lines in a ballad of Prior's, of a man's behaviour to bis wife, so applicable to you and your colonies, that I cannot help repeating them: Hi ' to her faulu... | |
 | Thomas Dibdin - 1815 - 490 pages
...Young men and old peruse the bard. A female trusted to your care, His rule is pithy, short, and clear ; Be to her faults a little blind ; Be to her virtues very kind ; Let ail her ways be uiicoiilin'il ; And clap your padlock on her mind. Cho. Be to her faults,... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1818 - 894 pages
...rooted in the philosophy of Nature and of man. * Chopping of wood was with him a favourite exercise. ' Be to her faults a little blind ; Be to her virtues very kind ; Let all her ways be unconfin'd ; And put your fetters on lier mind;' Is the advice of Prior... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1818 - 890 pages
...rooted in the philosophy of Nature and of man. * Chopping of wood was with him a favourite exercise. ' Be to her faults a little blind ; Be to her virtues very kind ; Let all her ways be unconfin'd; And put your fetters on her mind ;' is the advice of Prior to... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1819 - 484 pages
...ears, calls her little fondling names, Religion, Morality, and Social Order, takes for his motto, " Be to her faults a little blind, Be to her virtues very kind " — sticks close to his filthy bargain, and will not give her up, because she keeps him, and... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 376 pages
...mortal rake-hells lewd With all their midnight arts purused, Had not FRANCIS, vol. ii. p. 77. APAPTED. Be to her faults a little blind, Be to her virtues very kind, And clap your padlock on her mind, j PADLOCK. ' MR. SPECTATOR, ' YOUR correspondent's letter... | |
 | Paul Allen - 1822 - 624 pages
...Great Britain to adopt, in relation to America, is happily expressed in the words of a favourite poet: "Be to her faults a little blind, Be to her virtues very kind ; Let all her ways be unconfin'd, And clap your padlock on her mind." Upon the whole, I will beg... | |
 | 1822 - 430 pages
...in order, will be found by far the most efficacious, as well as the most easy of application : — " Be to her faults a little blind ; " Be to her virtues very kind ; " l<el all her ways be unconfin'd ; "And clap your padlock on her mind." It is, however, amusing... | |
 | 1823 - 428 pages
...them for the madness you have occasioned ? Rather let prudence and temper come first from this side. I will undertake for America, that she will follow the...her faults a little blind : Be to her virtues very kind. " ' Upon the whole, I beg leave to tell the house what is really my opinion. It is, that the... | |
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Americans have not acted in all things with prudence and temper ; they have been wronged ; they have been driven to madness, by injustice. Will you punish them for the madness you have occasioned ? Rather let prudence and temper come first from this side.... 
