 | Literature, Modern - 1801 - 544 pages
...writ, That is the title to her book she places, Exhorting bashful womankind to quit ' , All foolish modesty, and coy grimaces ; And name their backsides...scripture, archly fram'd, for propagating w—— — sv хун. William hath penn'da waggon-load of stuï, And Mary's life at last he needs must write,... | |
 | Janet Todd - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 340 pages
...Woman writ, This is the title to her book she places, Exhorting bashful womankind to quit All foolish modesty, and coy grimaces; And name their backsides as it were their faces; Such license loose-tongued liberty adores, Which adds to female speech exceeding graces; Lucky the maid... | |
 | Susan Gubar - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 270 pages
...Convenient Manual of Speculative Debauchery," and in 1801 the author of "The Vision of Liberty" intoned, "Lucky the maid that on her volume pores / A scripture, archly fram'd, for propagating w — s": see Ralph M. Wardle (318, 321, and 322), as well as Janet Todd, "Introduction," in A Wollstonecraft... | |
 | Claudia L. Johnson - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 314 pages
...Women writ, That is the title to her book she places, Exhorting bashful womankind to quit All foolish modesty, and coy grimaces; And name their backsides as it were their faces; 180 Such licence loose-tongued liberty adores, Which adds to female speech exceeding graces; Lucky... | |
 | Harriet Devine, Harriet Devine Jump - Feminism and literature - 2003 - 456 pages
...Convenient Manual of speculative debauchery," and in 1801 the author of "The Vision of Liberty" intoned: "Lucky the maid that on her volume pores / A scripture, archly fram'd, for propagating w s": see Ralph M. Wardle, Mary Wollstonecraft: A Critical Biography ( Lawrence: University of Kansas... | |
 | Literary Criticism - 2006 - 326 pages
...All foolish modesty and coy grimaces, And name their backsides as it were their faces; Such license loose-tongued liberty adores, Which adds to female...volume pores, A scripture archly fram'd for propagating whores. And he summed up his views in the following couplet: For Mary verily would wear the breeches... | |
 | Literary Criticism - 2006 - 326 pages
...Women writ, That is the title to the book she places, Exhorting bashful womankind to quit All foolish modesty and coy grimaces, And name their backsides as it were their faces; Such license loose-tongued liberty adores, Which adds to female speech exceeding graces; Lucky the maid... | |
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Whilom this dame the Rights of Women writ, That is the title to her book she places, Exhorting bashful womankind to quit All foolish modesty, and coy grimaces; And name their backsides as it were their faces; Such... 