 | George Jennings Davies - 1854 - 116 Seiten
...their generation wiser than the children of light/ he gave his landlady power to choose him a wife Now the wife provided for him, was her daughter Joan,...wife's, which is by Solomon compared to a dripping house : so that the good man had but too much reason to complain with the holy Prophet, ' Wo is me,... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1857 - 542 Seiten
...to return to London, and accept of her choice ; and he did so in that, or about the year following. Now, the wife provided for him was her daughter Joan,...wife's, which is by Solomon compared to a dripping house : so that the good man had no reason to "rejoice in the wife of his youth;" but too just cause... | |
 | 1857 - 632 Seiten
...to return to London, and accept of her choice ; and he did so in that or about the year following. Now, the wife provided for him, was her daughter Joan,...wife's which is by Solomon compared to a ' dripping house ;' so that the good man had no reason to ' rejoice in the wife of his * 'Walton's Life, p. 22,... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1865 - 404 Seiten
...to return to London, and accept of her choice ; and he did so in that, or about the year following. Now, the wife provided for him was her daughter Joan,...wife's, which is by Solomon compared to a dripping house : so that the good man had no reason to " rejoice in the wife of his youth ;" but too just cause... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1870 - 380 Seiten
...to return to London, and accept of her choice. And he did so in that, or about the following year. Now the wife provided for him was her daughter Joan,...wife's which is by Solomon compared to a dripping house .... And by this marriage the good man was drawn from the tranquillity of his college — from... | |
 | Edward Denison - 1872 - 342 Seiten
...read it in the Book of Genesis) when he went to choose a wife for Isaac. And how the wife she choose him was her daughter Joan, who brought him neither...for her conditions they were too like that wife's whom Solomon hath likened to a dripping house. Chillingworth I have dipped into, and cannot but admire... | |
 | 1873 - 826 Seiten
...summons to return to London and accept of her choice ; and he did so in that or about the year following. Now the wife provided for him was her daughter Joan,...wife's which is by Solomon compared to ' a dripping house,' so that the good man had no reason to ' rejoice in the wife of his youth,' but too just cause... | |
 | 1873 - 736 Seiten
...to return to London and accept of her choice ; and he did so, in that or about the year following. Now, the wife provided for him was her daughter Joan,...conditions, they were, too, like that wife's which is compared by Solomon to a dripping-house," which Wood explains by saying that she was a silly, clownish... | |
 | WILLIAM FRANCIS AINSWORTH - 1873 - 736 Seiten
...to return to London and accept of her choice ; and he did so, in that or about the year following. Now, the wife provided for him was her daughter Joan,...conditions, they were, too, like that wife's which is compared by Solomon to a dripping-house," which Wood explains by saying that she was a silly, clownish... | |
 | 494 Seiten
...Churchman to make a choice for him ; whereupon she provided her daughter Joan, who (says the chronicler) " brought him neither beauty nor portion ; and for her...wife's, which is by Solomon compared to a dripping house." And old Iznnk goes on to relate amusing instances of the questionable comfort Hooker enjoyed... | |
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London and accept of her choice; and he did so in that or about the year following. Now the wife provided for him was her daughter Joan, who brought him neither beauty nor portion; and for her conditions, they were too like that wife's which is by Solomon... 
