 ... and evolutions of patience and temper are performed at the fireside, worthy to be compared with the Retreat of the Ten Thousand. Men have worshipped some fantastic being for living alone in a wilderness ; but social martyrdoms place no saints upon...  The New Monthly Belle Assemblée - Seite 3111847Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Sir Arthur Helps - 1849 - 254 Seiten
...of getting up and walk" ing away from each other to any extent." ON THE ART OF LIVING WITH OTHERS. THE Iliad for war; the Odyssey for wandering : but...tea-table, which would not have misbecome men dashing at one another in war-chariots; and evolutions of patience and temper are performed at the fireside,... | |
 | Sir Arthur Helps - 1849 - 260 Seiten
...of getting up and walk" ing away from each other to any extent." ON THE ART OF LIVING WITH OTHERS. THE Iliad for war; the Odyssey for wandering : but where is the great domestic epic? Tet it is but commonplace to say, that passions may rage round a tea-table, which would not have misbecome... | |
 | Mary Matilda Howard - 1850 - 426 Seiten
...Susan would not encourage Alice in her curiosity and love of gossiping. CHAPTER XVI. FAMILY TROUBLES. " The Iliad for war ; the Odyssey for wandering : but...tea-table which •would not have misbecome men dashing at one another in war chariots ; and evolutions of patience and temper are performed at the fireside... | |
 | Sir Arthur Helps - 1857 - 376 Seiten
...power of getting up and walking away from each other to any extent/ ON THE ART OP LIVING WITH OTHERS. THE Iliad for war ; the Odyssey for wandering : but...tea-table, which would not have misbecome men dashing at one another in war chariots ; and evolutions of patience and temper are performed at the fireside,... | |
 | 1859 - 534 Seiten
...characteristic of Montford and like writers. The essay on the art of living with others, commences thus : " The Iliad for war ; the Odyssey for wandering ; but...tea-table, which would not have misbecome men dashing at one another in war-chariots ; and evolutions of patience and temper are performed at the fireside,... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1847 - 586 Seiten
...whatever of his own footsteps. The essay ' On the Art of Living with Others' must be given entire. ' The Iliad for war; the Odyssey for wandering: but...tea-table, which would not have misbecome men dashing at one another in war-chariots; and evolutions of patience and temper are performed at the fireside,... | |
 | Casket - 1874 - 840 Seiten
...Carlyle, or Helps, becomes in some sort a seer, and must be always of infinite ase to hift generation."] The Iliad for war; the Odyssey for wandering; but...tea-table which would not have misbecome men dashing at one another in war-chariots; and evolutions of patience and temper are performed at the fireside... | |
 | Constance Cary Harrison - 1881 - 374 Seiten
...she was finally nagged out of life. Truly has it been said by the author of " Friends in Council:" "The 'Iliad' for war, the 'Odyssey' for wandering...tea-table which would not have misbecome men dashing at one another in war-chariots ; and evolutions of patience and temper are performed at the fireside... | |
 | Mrs. Burton Harrison - 1881 - 228 Seiten
...she was finally nagged out of life. Truly has it been said by the author of " Friends in Council :" " The ' Iliad ' for war, the ' Odyssey ' for wandering...tea-table which would not have misbecome men dashing at one another in war-chariots; and evolutions of patience and temper are performed at the fireside... | |
 | Prose masterpieces - 1884 - 310 Seiten
....... 207 ARTHUR HELPS. BORN 1808 — DIED 1 88 1. ON THE ART OF LIVING WITH OTHERS. BY ARTHUR HELPS. THE "Iliad" for war; the "Odyssey" for wandering ;...tea-table, which would not have misbecome men dashing at one another in war chariots ; and evolutions of patience and temper are performed at the fireside,... | |
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