 ... passions, a man had better be in a fair than in a wood alone. They may, like petty thieves, cheat us perhaps, and pick our pockets in the midst of company, but like robbers, they use to strip and bind, or murder us when they catch us alone. This is...  A Series of Genuine Letters Between Henry and Frances - Page 192by Richard Griffith, Elizabeth Griffith - 1767 - 298 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Abraham Cowley - Literary Collections - 1915 - 416 pages
...cheat us perhaps, and pick our pockets in the midst of company, but like Robbers they use to strip and bind, or murder us when they catch us alone. This...but to retreat from Men, and fall into the hands of Devils. 'Tis like the punishment of Parricides among the Romans, to be sow'd into a Bag with an Ape,... | |
 | Robert Bridges - English literature - 1916 - 368 pages
...us perhaps, and pick our pockets, in the midst of company ; but like Robbers, they use to strip and bind or murder us, when they catch us alone. This is but to retreat from Men, and to fall into the hands of Devils. It is like the punishment of Parricides among the Romans, to be sew'd... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English prose literature - 1925 - 1124 pages
...cheat us perhaps, and pick our pockets in the midst of company, but like Robbers they use to strip and bind, or murder us when they catch us alone. This...but to retreat from Men, and fall into the hands of Devils. 'Tis like the punishment of Parricides among the Romans, to be sowed into a Bag with an Ape,... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - Literature - 1928 - 244 pages
...us, perhaps, and pick our pockets in the midst of company; but, like robbers, they use to strip, and bind, or murder us, when they catch us alone. This...but to retreat from men, and fall into the hands of devils." But some sequesterment is needful for our intellectual, as for our spiritual nature. A bird... | |
 | 516 pages
...cheat us perhaps, and pick our pockets in the midst of company, but like Robbers they use to strip and bind, or murder us when they catch us alone. This...but to retreat from Men, and fall into the hands of Devils. 'Tis like the punishment of Parricides among the Romans, to be sow'd into a Bag with an Ape,... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 172 pages
...cheat us perhaps, and pick our pockets in the midst of company, but like Robbers they use to strip and bind, or murder us when they catch us alone. This...but to retreat from Men, and fall into the hands of Devils. 'Tis like the punishment of Parricides among the Romans, to be sow'd into a Bag with an Ape,... | |
 | 1917 - 856 pages
...very few persons. If the mind be possessed of any lust a man had better be in a fair than in a wood alone. This is but to retreat from men and fall into the hands of devils." Be this as it may, many of the world's greatest men were solitaries, Dante, Michael Angelo,... | |
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