 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 - 1839 - 510 pagina’s
...codille ; Spleen, vapours, or small-pox, above them all, And mistress of herself, though china fall. | B I7 K bo q# "b uU d { y ( | *...| O yß L 0 s mѩ.J u # . # e q ) a u4 * $9ν#Bk2Y 8 0 \ O ; Picks from each sex, to make the favourite blest, Your love of pleasure, our desire of rest: Blends,... | |
 | 1839 - 702 pagina’s
...perhaps have come, after a grave and dispassionate examination of all the pros and cons ; he writes, And yet, believe me, good as well as ill, Woman's at best a contradiction still. Such, too, it is probable, would be the reader's conviction, if he were to devote his time and patience... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pagina’s
...codillc ; Spleen, vapors, or small-pox, above them all, And mistress of herself, though china fall. nd free, In Heaven yclep'd Euphrosyne, con Its last best work, but forms a softer man ; Picks from each sex, to make the favorite blest, Your... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pagina’s
...codille ; Spleen, vapors, or small-poi, above them all, And mistress of herself, though china fall. n ; let him tempt, and now assay His utmost subtlety, ; Picks from each sex, to make the favorite blest, Your love of pleasure, our desire of rest: Blends,... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - 432 pagina’s
...hope you 11 now purge and live cleanly like a gentleman.1 " One night when Beauclerk and Langton had * 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 favourite blest, Your love of pleasure, our desire of rest : Blends,... | |
 | Polyphilus (pseud.) - 1844 - 268 pagina’s
...of them is, that they would be themselves, that is what nature designed them." — THE SlBCTATOB. " And yet believe me, good as well as ill, Woman's at best, a contradiction still." — POPE. The mind of woman (the furniture of which has been so well described by Swift) being so often... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 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... | |
 | Lady Emily Ponsonby - 1848 - 350 pagina’s
...one of you, and go and make tea the other, and let me get in one word, if you please." CHAPTER IX. And yet, believe me, good as well as ill, Woman's at best a contradiction still. POPE. " Did you ask papa about Miss Grant ?" said Margaret Woodvile to her sister, the following morning... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 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 blest, Your love of pleasure, our desire of rest : Blends,... | |
 | 1852 - 874 pagina’s
...codille ; Spleen, vapors, or small-pox, above them all, And mistress of herself, though china fall. | N 2 P Q F S T ; Picks from each sex, to make the favorite blest, Your love of pleasure, our desire of rest: Blends,... | |
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