| 1826 - 570 pągines
...whine over their follies; we enjoy, we laugh at them till we are ready to burst our sides, " .SY///.V intermission, for hours by the dial.' We serve up...For my own part, as I once said, / like a friend the belter for having faults that one can talk about. " Then," said Mrs. ——, " you will never cease... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1826 - 486 pągines
...whine over their follies ; we enjoy, we laugh at them till we are ready to burst our sides, " sans intermission, for hours by the dial." We serve up...are even with us. For my own part, as I once said, I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about. " Then," said Mrs. , " you will... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1851 - 394 pągines
...whine over their follies ; we enjoy, we laugh at them till we are ready to burst our sides, " sans intermission, for hours by the dial." We serve up...are even with us. For my own part, as I once said, I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about. " Then," said Mrs Montagu, ''you... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1903 - 532 pągines
...whine over their follies ; we enjoy, we laugh at them till we are ready to burst our sides, ' sans intermission, for hours by the dial.' We serve up...are even with us. For my own part, as I once said, I like a friend the better for having faults that one c;u>—. talk about. ' Then,' said Mrs. , ' you... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1903 - 536 pągines
...whine over their follies ; we enjoy, we laugh at them till we are ready to burst our sides, ' tans intermission, for hours by the dial.' We serve up a course of anecdotes, traiss, master-strokes of character, and cut and hack at them till we are weary. Perhaps some of them... | |
| Carl Henry Grabo - 1927 - 544 pągines
...or whine over their follies; we enjoy, we laugh at them till we are ready to burst our sides, "sans intermission, for hours by the dial." We serve up...are even with us. For my own part, as I once said, I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about. "Then," said Mrs. M , "you will... | |
| Logan Pearsall Smith - 1928 - 280 pągines
...and foibles of common friends is a great sweetener and cement of friendship. Hazlitt, TT, II, 78. I LIKE a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about. Ibid., PS, I, 318. WE grow tired of everything but turning others into, ridicule, and congratulating... | |
| Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pągines
...no. 60 (published anonymously in 1 823; repr. in Complete Works, vol. 9, ed. by PP Howe, 1932). 22 I er. The teller, in Universa/ Chronicle, no. 40 (London, 20 (an. 1 7 WILLIAM HAZLITT (1778-1830), English essayist. The Plain Speaker. "On the Pleasure of Haling" (1 826).... | |
| Ariel Books - 2001 - 380 pągines
...nendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it. a 'icero like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about. OY/V/ O/1 / William Jiazlitt v nave a men one, VISCOUNT SAMUEL HERBERT riendship is constant in all... | |
| M. Scott Peck - 2002 - 136 pągines
...THOREAU Q/l/ true friend is one who likes you despite your achievements. *•— -ARNOLD BENNETT t/lik like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about. *— -WILLIAM HAZLITT ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. RALPH WALDO EMERSON "he man... | |
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