 | Alfred Guy L'Estrange - 1878 - 370 halaman
...too ? * Dodsley was never averse from having a hit at the church, as in the epigram : " Cries Sylvia to a reverend dean What reason can be given, Since marriage is* a holy thing, That there are none in heaven ? " ' There are no women,' he replied, She quick returns the jest, ' Women... | |
 | Alfred Guy L'Estrange - 1878 - 414 halaman
...too ? * Dodsley was never averse from having a hit at the church, as in the epigram : " Cries Sylvia to a reverend dean What reason can be given, Since marriage is a holy thing, That there are none in heaven ? " ' There are no women,' he replied, She quick returns the jest, ' Women... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 halaman
...o'er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasure, and his cares dividing ! Rogers, PH L Cries Sylvia to a reverend dean, " What reason can be given, " Since marriage is a holy thing, That there are none in heaven ?" -' They have," says he, " no women there." She quick returned the jest... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1884 - 460 halaman
...it was who tempted Eve, And is not he a male ? Dean Swift was guilty of the following good thing : Said Celia to a reverend Dean, " What reason can be...thing, That they have none in heaven ?" " They have," said he, " no women there :" She quick returns the jest, " Women there are, but I 'm afraid, They cannot... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - 1884 - 458 halaman
...it was who tempted Eve, And is not he a male ? Dean Swift was guilty of the following good thing : Said Celia to a reverend Dean, " What reason can be...thing, That they have none in heaven?" " They have," said he, " no women there :" She quick returns the jest, " Women there are, but I 'm afraid, They cannot... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh, Henry Collins Walsh, William H. Garrison, Samuel R. Harris - 1891 - 348 halaman
...cites the following parallelism, and credits the lines, doubtfully, to Dean Swift : " Cries Caelia to a reverend Dean, ' What reason can be given. Since marriage is a holy thing, That there is none in heaven ?' ' There are no women there,' he cried. She quick returns the jest, ' Women... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh - 1892 - 1114 halaman
...vhcir rammers by. Here are a few more on the most diverse subjects : MARRIAGE IN HEAVEN. Cries Sylvia to a reverend dean, " What reason can be given, Since marriage is a holy thing, Why there is none in heaven?" " There are no women," he replied. She quick returns the jest, — "... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 halaman
...their rammers by. Here are a few more on the most diverse subjects: MARRIAGE IN HEAVEN. Cries Sylvia lo f it can find none better, it will erect for itself a gospel of Mammonism, w Why there is none in heaven ?" " There are no women," he replied. She quick returns the jest,— "... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 464 halaman
...I woke ! hill, dale, and river shone ; I long'd to sleep and sleep for ever. MARRIAGE. Cries Sylvia to a reverend Dean, " What reason can be given. Since marriage is a holy thing, That there is none in heaven?" "There are no women," he replied. She quick return» the jest:— "Women... | |
 | 1893 - 444 halaman
...Who could have thought that rabbits understood Latin." (Univ. Aim., 1773.) AN EPIGRAM. Cries Sylvia to a reverend Dean, What reason can be given, Since marriage is a holy thing, That there are none in Heaven ? There are no women, he reply'd, She quick returns the jest Women there are,... | |
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Cries Sylvia to a reverend dean What reason can be given, Since marriage is* a holy thing, That there are none in heaven ? " ' There are no women,' he replied, She quick returns the jest, ' Women there are, but I'm afraid They cannot find a priest. 
