 And mistress of herself, though china fall. And yet believe me, good as well as ill, Woman's at best a contradiction still. Heaven, when it strives to polish all it can Its last best work, but forms a softer man...  Maternal counsels to a daughter - Pagina 153door Matilda Marian Chesney Pullan - 1855 - 312 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 430 pagina’s
...tho' china fall. And yet, believe me, good as well as ill, Woman's at best a contradiction still. 270 Heaven, when it strives to polish all it can Its last best work, but forms a softer man ; Picks from each sex, to make the fav'rite blest, Your love of pleasure, our desire of rest ; Blends,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 424 pagina’s
...codille ; Spleen, vapours, or small-pox, above them all, And mistress of herself, tho' china fall. And yet, believe me, good as well as ill, Woman's at best a contradiction still. 270 Heaven, when it strives to polish all it can Its last best work, but forms a softer man ; Picks... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pagina’s
...character ; in which contradiction he shews, all the lustre even of the best character consists : " And yet, believe me, good as well as ill, Woman's at best a contradiction still, &c." Warburton. Bolingbroke, a judge of the subject, thought this Epistle the master-piece of Pope.... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pagina’s
...all, And mistress of herself, though china fall. And yet believe me, good as well as ill, Woman 's at best a contradiction still. Heaven, when it strives...it can Its last best work, but forms a softer man ; Picks from each sex, to make the favourite bless'd, Your love of pleasure, our desire of rest; Blends,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pagina’s
...China fall. / And yet, believe me, good as well as ill, \V oman's at beet a contradiction still. 270 Heaven when it strives to polish all it can Its last best work, but forms a softer man ; Picks from each sex, to make the favorite bless'd, Your love of pleasure, our desire of rest ; Blends,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pagina’s
...eodШe ; Spleen, vapours, or small-pox, above them all, And mistress of herself, though ehina fall. eontradietion still. Heaven when it strives to polish all it ean Its last best work, but forms a softer... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pagina’s
...though china fall. And yet, believe me, good as well as ill, Woman's at best a contradiction still. 2/0 , as little seem'd to heed The life to come in every poet's creed. Who now reads Cowle ; Picks from each sex, to make the favourite bleas'd, Your love of pleasure, our desire of rest ; Blends... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pagina’s
...codille ; Spleen, vapours, or small-pox, above them all, And mistress of herself though china fall. And yet, believe me, good as well as ill, Woman's at best a contradiction still. 270 Heaven when it strives to polish all it can Its last best work but forms a softer man ; • Picks... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 222 pagina’s
...Spleen vapours, or small-pox, above them all, And mislressof herself though china fall. And yet beUeve me, good as well as ill, Woman's at best a contradiction still. Heav'n when it strives to polish all iteai\, Its last beet work, but forms a aoh»T mwn. 146 OF THE... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 816 pagina’s
...Gay. The will may pick and chuse among these objects, but it cannot create any to work on. Cheyne. Heaven when it strives to polish all it can, Its last, best work, but forms a softer man, Picks from each sex, to make the fav'rite blest, Your love of pleasure, our desire of rest. Pope. Thus... | |
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