 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pàgines
...Protens on hearing from him that Valentine desired his presence at the Emperor's court.) WILL. — He that will not when he may, When he will, he shall have nay. BURTON.— Anat. of Melancholy, Part III. Sect. 2. Memb. 5. Subsect. 5. He that wold not when he might,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1864 - 802 pàgines
...invitation — an invitation that had been declined at the time. " You may quote against me the proverb, ' He that will not when he may, when he will he shall have nay.' And I shall have no reason to complain," he had said. But Mrs. Hamley was only too much charmed with... | |
 | Philip Abraham - 1866 - 234 pàgines
...receding day and light, Compelled to quit his toil by night, And homewards as he bends his way, Sighs, " He that will not when he may, When he will, he shall have nay." THE PILGRIMS. ENTHUSIASTIC in their zeal, They traverse wild and waste ; And armed with holy purpose... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1866 - 342 pàgines
...invitation — an invitation that had been declined at the time. "You may quote against me the proverb, 'He that will not when he may, when he will he shall have nay.' And I shall have no reason to complain," he had said. But Mrs. Hamley was only too much charmed with... | |
 | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - 1867 - 188 pàgines
...grandchildren that may be styled your lordships ? Look you, Teresa, I have always heard my betters say, ' He that will not when he may, when he will he shall have nay ; ' and it would be wrong, now that fortune is knocking at our door, not to open it and bid her welcome.... | |
 | Frederick Swartz Jewell - 1867 - 276 pàgines
...him, to wish himself well out of it.—Andersen. 454. " I should like even a few minutes longer." 455. He that will not when he may ; when he will, he shall have nay.—Proverb. 456. " Yes, so it is ; said the little girl in the tree.—And. 457. Did she come back... | |
 | Isabella Fyvie Mayo - 1868 - 338 pàgines
...till too late." "Yes, truly," assented Euth, clenching my meanderings with a proverb : — " He who will not when he may, When he will, he shall have nay." And then she rose and went off about some household arrangement, leaving me to puzzle out a few more... | |
 | Catherine Simpson Wynne - 1869 - 274 pàgines
...? I am off this moment — good-bye, ladies." "But do tell us, Doctor " " No, no !" I answered, " ' He that will not when he may, When he will, he shall have nay.' " " Oh, you disagreeable old thing !" was the parting salutation of the elegant Mrs. Gabriel. CHAPTER... | |
 | Walter Keating Kelly - 1869 - 252 pàgines
...with the offer on the spot. " When the fool has made up his mind, the market has gone by" (Spanish).6 He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay. " Some refuse roast meat, and afterwards long for the smoke of it " (Italian).6 The nearer the church,... | |
 | Alfred Henderson - 1869 - 526 pàgines
...Grind with every wind." " Take hold of a good minute." " A wise man turns chance into good fortune." " He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay." See " Colllge." " Dum Aurora." " Dona prasentis." Noscttur ex sociis. — A man is judged of by his... | |
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He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay. 
