 | English language - 1817 - 336 pages
...man's child. Л little house well fdl'd, a little land well till'd, and a little wife well will'd. One year of joy, another of comfort, and all the rest of content. A marriage wish. My son's my son, till he hath got him a wife, But my daughter's my daughter all days of her life. The... | |
 | John Ray - 1818 - 318 pages
...man's child. A little house well filt'dj a little land well till'd, and a little wife well will'd. One year of joy, another of comfort, and all the rest of content. Л tnarriage irísk. My son's my son, till he hath got him a wife, But my daughter's my daughter all... | |
 | John Wade - Church - 1824 - 258 pages
...the good woman saith, so it must be. A woman and a greyhound must be small in the waist.— Spanish. A little house well filled, a little land well tilled, and a little wife well willed. A fair woman, with foul conditions, is like a sumptuous sepulchre, full of corruption. A buxom widow... | |
 | John Doyle (bookseller, New York.) - Booksellers' catalogs - 1848 - 248 pages
...8vo. calf, neat - 1 25 2394 ROLLIN. The Method of Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres ; or, an A little house well filled, a little land well tilled, and a little wife well willed. Introduction to Languages, Poetry, Rhetoric, History, Moral Philosophy, &c. London, 1769, 3 vols Svo.... | |
 | London metrop. tabernacle - 1869 - 584 pages
...husband there's generally gentleness in the wife, and between them the old wedding wish is worked out : "One year of joy, another of comfort, and all the rest of content." Where hearts agree, there joy will be. United hearts death only parts. They say marriage is not often... | |
 | 1867 - 912 pages
...we; but as the good woman saith, so it must be. A woman and a grayhound most be small in the waist. A little house well filled, a little land well tilled, and a little wife well willed. All women are good; good for something or good fer nothing. A virtuous woman, though ugly, is the ornament... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - Marriage - 1873 - 404 pages
...woman is the pride and the joy of the man.' Happiness, we are told, belongs to the husband who has ' A little house well filled, A little land well tilled, And a little wife well willed.' Notwithstanding their defects, women are on the whole conducive to the welfare of the human species... | |
 | William Carew Hazlitt - Proverbs, English - 1882 - 586 pages
...little debt makes a debtor, but a great one an enemy. A little fire burns up a great deal of corn. A little house well filled, a little land well tilled, and a little wife well willed are great riches. Written in a coeval hand in a copy of edit. 1561 of The Crete Hcrball, &c. See Notes... | |
 | Cheshire (England) - 1883 - 638 pages
...children so, if girls; if boys, Earls of Derby. As good a goose-skin that never man had enough of. A little house well filled ; A little land well tilled ; And a little wifu well willed. A lisping lass is good to kiss. As tall as a May-pole. As tender as Parnoll, that... | |
 | George Carter Needham - Baptists - 1883 - 700 pages
...husband, there 's generally gentleness in the wife, and between them the old wedding wish is worked out: "One year of joy, another of comfort, and all the rest of content." Where hearts agree, there joy will be. United hearts death only parts. They say marriage is not often... | |
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A little house well filled, a little land well tilled, and a little wife well willed. One year of joy, another of comfort, and all the rest of content. 
