| Thomas Seccombe, John William Allen - English literature - 1903 - 328 pages
...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, who...her conditions they were too like that wife's which is by Solomon compared to a dripping house : so that the good man had no reason to rejoice in the wife... | |
| English periodicals - 1904 - 716 pages
...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, who brought him neither beauty nor position, and for her conditions, they were too much like that wife's which is by Solomon compared... | |
| Izaak Walton - 1906 - 366 pages
...so in that, or about the year j following. Now, the wife provided for him was her daughter |_Joan, who brought him neither beauty nor portion ; and for...conditions, they were too like that wife's, which is by .•• Solomon compared to a dripping house : so that the good man had no reason to "rejoice... | |
| Vernon Staley - England - 1907 - 250 pages
...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 by Solomon compared to ' a dripping house ' ; l so that the good man had no reason to ' rejoice... | |
| JOHN MASEFIELD - 1907 - 550 pages
...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, who...conditions, they were too like that wife's, which is by Solomon compared to a dripping house : so that the good man had no reason to rejoice in the wife... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 950 pages
...her choice." The lady selected by her was "her daughter Joan," who, says the same authority, "found him neither beauty nor portion ; and for her conditions they were too like that wife's which is by Solomon compared to a dripping house. ' ' It is probable that Walton has exaggerated the simplicity... | |
| Literature - 1914 - 540 pages
...following reference to the unworthy spouse foisted upon Richard Hooker by the artful Mrs. Churchman: "Now, the wife provided for him was her daughter Joan, who...conditions, they were too like that wife's, which is by Solomon compared to a dripping house: so that the good man had no reason to rejoice in the wife... | |
| Barrett Harper Clark - Biography - 1928 - 1452 pages
...return to London, and accept of her choice ; and he did so in that, or about the year following. Now, W ^ ^ ^ is by Solomon compared to a dripping house: so that the good man had no reason to " rejoice in the... | |
| Richard Hooker, John Keble, Richard William Church - 626 pages
...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 by Solomon compared to "a dripping house1:" so that the good man had no reason to " rejoice in the... | |
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