Quote#Humour & Wit
But as Cowley was apt to be a little out of humour between whiles,…
Quote byGeorge Horne · 1730–1792
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay, 1880.
English (original)
But as Cowley was apt to be a little out of humour between whiles, let us hear the honourable, pious, and sweet-tempered Mr. Boyle, who, among the troubles of life, enumerates as one “the business of receiving senseless visits, whose continuance, if otherwise unavoidable, is capable, in my opinion, to justify the retiredness of a hermit.”
— George Horne
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