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" Women shall rule the boxes and the pit, Give laws to love and influence to wit. Find me one man of sense in all your roll, Whom some one woman has not made a fool. "
Oxford and Cambridge Miscellany Poems - Page 304
by Elijah Fenton - 1707 - 400 pages
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Poems by the Earl of Roscommon: To which is Added an Essay on Poetry

Wentworth Dillon Earl of Roscommon - English poetry - 1717 - 580 pages
...Wit. Find me one Man of Senfe in all your Roll, Whom fome one Woman has not made a Fool. Even Bufmefs, that intolerable Load Under which Man does groan and yet is proud, Much better they cou'd manage wouM they pleafe, *Tis not their want of Wit, but love of Eafe. For, fpite of Art, more...
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The Works of the English Poets: Otway; Duke; Dorset

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 238 pages
...rule the Boxes and the Pit, > Give laws to Love, and influence to Wit. j F'ind me one man of fenfe in all your roll, Whom fome one woman has not made...man does groan, and yet is proud, Much better they could manage would they pleafe; 'Tis not their want of wit, but love of cafe. For, fpite of art, more...
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The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical ..., Volumes 11-12

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 402 pages
...fhall rule the Boxes and the Pit, Give laws to Love, and influence to Wit. Find me one man of fenfe m all your roll, Whom fome one woman has not made a...man does groan, and yet is proud, Much better they could manage would they plcafe; 'Tis not their want of wit, but love of eafe. For, fpite of art, more...
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The Works of the English Poets: Otway, Duke, and Dorset

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 230 pages
...Wit. Find me one man of fenfe in all your roll, Whom fome one woman has not made a fool. Ev'n bufmefs, that intolerable load Under which man does groan, and yet is proud, Much better they could manage would they pleafe> Tis not their want of wit, but love of eafe. For, fpke of art, more...
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Prologues and Epilogues: Celebrated for Their Poetical Merit ...

Prologues - Prologues and epilogues - 1810 - 280 pages
...Find me one Man of Senfe in all your rollĀ» Whom fome one Woman has not made a fool. Even bufmefs, that intolerable load, Under which man does groan,...>Tis not their want of wit ; but love of eafe. For, ipite of art, more wit in them appears; Though we bcaft ours, and they diflemble theirs: Wit once was...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 9

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 620 pages
...Find me one man of sense in all your roll, Whom some one woman has not made a fool. Ev'n business, that intolerable load Under which man does groan, and yet is proud, Much better they coald manage would they please ; Tis not their want of wit, but love of ease. For, spite of art, more...
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The Cambridge tart: epigrammatic and satiric-poetical effusions by Cantabs ...

Cambridge tart - English poetry - 1823 - 318 pages
...wit. Find me one man of sense in your roll, Whom some one Woman has not made a fool. E'en business, that intolerable load, Under which man does groan, and yet is proud ; Much better can they manage, would they please ; 'Tis not their want of wit but lave of ease : For spite of art,...
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The Cambridge Tart: Epigrammatic and Satiric-poetical Effusions; &c. &c ...

Richard Gooch - College verse - 1823 - 310 pages
...wit. Find me one man of sense in your roll, Whom some one Woman has not made a fool. E'en business, that intolerable load, Under which man does groan, and yet is proud ; Much better can they manage, would they please ; "Tis not their want of wit but love of ease : For spite of art,...
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