 I shall conclude these iambics with the motto of this paper, which is a fragment of the same author. ' A man cannot possess anything that is better than a good woman, nor anything that is worse than a bad one.  54-40 Or Fight - Page 362by Emerson Hough - 1909 - 402 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood. • Pope. cccxxx. A man cannot possess any thing that is better than a good woman, nor anything that is worse than a bad one. — Simonides. CCCXXXI. round the heart; producing good, if moderately indulged; but certain destruction, ii suffered... | |
 | 564 pages
...grapes : the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and the third of repentance. A man cannot possess anything that is better than a good woman, nor anything that is worse than a bad one. Ill news are swallow-winged, but what is good walks on crutches. Knowledge is the treasure of the mind... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 pages
...mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue is the law of kindness. — Freeholder. WOMAN. — A man cannot possess anything that is better than a good woman,...anything that is worse than a bad one. — Simonides. WOMAN. — The modest virgin, the prudent wife, or the careful matron, are much more serviceable in... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 1118 pages
...these iamhics with the motto of this Paper, which is a fragment of the same author. " A man cannot possess anything that is better than a good woman, nor anything that is worse than a bad one." As the poet has shown a great penetration in this diversity of female characters, he has avoided the... | |
 | James Henry Powell - 1861 - 36 pages
...WILLIAM SIMPSON, MACHINE FEINTEE, 31, KING'S ÉOAD, BBIGHTON. A. N: AT HOME AND ABROAD. A man cannot possess anything that is better than a good woman, nor anything that is worso than a bad one. SIMONIDKS. THE opinion has long been held by Philosophical thinkers that mothers... | |
 | 1873 - 46 pages
...: " I'm not in. love," who sighs and shakes his head, In love too sure is he. Lanifor. A MAN cannot possess anything that is better than a good woman, nor anything that is worse than a bad one. — Simoni-J,-s. /') C» Tf\ /? P /? 1 U'isdom foes not always by y« \J \JI v LJ L— ii | J [7873.... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 334 pages
...continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible. — Johnson. A man cannot possess anything that is better than a good woman,...anything that is worse than a bad one. — Simonides. Some men are more beholden to their bitterest enemies than to friends who appear to be sweetness itself.... | |
 | Frederick William Morton - 1894 - 224 pages
...belief, they cannot give to one that which was designed for all. JUNIUS HENRI BROWNE. A MAN cannot possess anything that is better than a good woman,...anything that is worse than a bad one. SIMONIDES. A VIRTUOUS woman is a crown to her husband ; but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.... | |
 | 1897 - 342 pages
...Paradise, she has done her best ever since to make it up to him. — Frederick Sheldon. A man cannot possess anything that is better than a good woman,...anything that is worse than a bad one. — Simonides. There are three things that women throw away — their time, their money, and their health — Marie... | |
 | George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - 420 pages
...these iambics with the motto of this paper, which is a fragment of the same author. ' A man cannot possess anything that is better than a good woman, nor anything that is worse than a bad one.' As the poet has shown a great penetration in this diversity of female characters, he has avoided the... | |
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