The Affairs of Women: A Modern Miscellanyjohn gunn, 2006 - 240 pages |
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... remark that women are wiser than men because they know less and under- stand more . An attempt to draw up a table of feminine traits , and to list all the respective authors ' agreements or disagreements on each point must fail because ...
... remark that women are wiser than men because they know less and under- stand more . An attempt to draw up a table of feminine traits , and to list all the respective authors ' agreements or disagreements on each point must fail because ...
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... remark to Lord Mulgrave , who had surprisingly been included in Pitt's 1804 Government as Foreign Minister . Breakfasting at Pitt's home at Putney , Mulgrave said - it was hardly a com- plaint that he had been given a broken egg - spoon ...
... remark to Lord Mulgrave , who had surprisingly been included in Pitt's 1804 Government as Foreign Minister . Breakfasting at Pitt's home at Putney , Mulgrave said - it was hardly a com- plaint that he had been given a broken egg - spoon ...
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... remarked that no woman could read Burke . Maybe ; but it was once said to me that the chief difference between men and women is that they both begin as babies , but the girls grow up and the boys never do . Nothing could be more true ...
... remarked that no woman could read Burke . Maybe ; but it was once said to me that the chief difference between men and women is that they both begin as babies , but the girls grow up and the boys never do . Nothing could be more true ...
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... remark upon the mixed feelings with which the " little group of the blue - stockings of the day " regarded Burke- " the great master of knowledge and eloquence . . . . They felt for Burke the adoring reverence which women offer , with ...
... remark upon the mixed feelings with which the " little group of the blue - stockings of the day " regarded Burke- " the great master of knowledge and eloquence . . . . They felt for Burke the adoring reverence which women offer , with ...
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... remark attributed to the English poet William Shenstone ( 1714-1763 ) , the French woman has a quality in which no other woman in the world can compete with her - the power of intellectual irritation . " She will draw wit out of a fool ...
... remark attributed to the English poet William Shenstone ( 1714-1763 ) , the French woman has a quality in which no other woman in the world can compete with her - the power of intellectual irritation . " She will draw wit out of a fool ...
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Page 212 - DRINK to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine.
Page 183 - When lovely woman stoops to folly. And finds, too late, that men betray. What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover. To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, — is to die.
Page 155 - Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.
Page 190 - SINCE there's no help, come let us kiss and part, Nay I have done, you get no more of me ; And I am glad, yea glad with all my heart, That thus so cleanly I myself can free ; Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows, And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain.
Page 181 - Should'st rubies find: I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the Flood, And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion of the Jews.
Page 210 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell, Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Page 318 - Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast ; Still to be powdered, still perfumed : Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace : Robes loosely flowing, hair as free : Such sweet neglect more taketh me, Than all the adulteries of art ; They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
Page 302 - BEHOLD, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; Thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks : Thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.
Page 306 - Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime ; So thou through windows of thine age shalt see, Despite of wrinkles, this thy golden time.
Page 276 - HE that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men ; which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public.