 | Albin-Joseph-Ulpien Hennet - English poetry - 1806 - 360 pages
...accepting, by submitting sways, Yet has hcr humour most , whcn she obeys. Let fops and fortune fly wich way they will Disdains all loss of tickets or codille...them all And mistress of herself, though china fall.* FOPS , moral cs-s.iys , cp. 1. ADDISON , plus distingué dans la littérature que dans la poésie ,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1808 - 702 pages
...make to morrow cheerful as to day ; She who can love a sister's charms, or hear Sighs for a danghter with unwounded ear ; She who ne'er answers till a...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. Heaven, when it strives... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...cheerful as to day ; She who can love a sister's charms, or hear Sighs for a daughter with nnwounded ear ; She who ne'er answers till a husband cools,...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. Heaven, when it strives... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...she obeys ; Let fops or fortune fly which way they will, Disdains all loss of tickets or codillc ; 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. Heaven, when it strives... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...first edition : Ii> several men we several (Missions find ; In wumen, l»i> almost divide tUc kiui. Let fops or Fortune fly which way they will, Disdains...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...almost divide tUc : .mi. Let fops or Fortune fly which way they will, Disdains all loss of ticket*, or 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 si ill. 27S Heaven when it... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...sways, Yet has her humour most, when she obeys ; Let fops or fortune fly which way they will ; 265 Disdains all loss of tickets, or codille ; Spleen,...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 Heav'n, when it... | |
 | Richard Lobb - Nature study - 1817 - 430 pages
...sways, Yet has her humour most, when she obeys ; Let fops of fortune fly which way they will, Disdain all loss of tickets or codille; Spleen, vapours, or...them all, And mistress of herself, though china fall. No. XXIII. REFLECTIONS ON DEW. ' Who hath begotten the drops of dew ?' JOB.. Non liquid! gregibus fontes,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...she obeys ; Let fops or Fortune fly which way they will, Disdains all loss of tickets, or codillc ; f destin'd habitation ; but thou know'st Their seasons : among these the seat of men, Eart And yet, believe me, good as well as ill, Woman's at best a contradiction still. Heaven when it strives... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 pages
...more sober light, Serene in virgin modesty she shines, And unobserv'd the glaring orb declines. Oh ! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow...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. Heaven when it strives... | |
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Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day; She, who can love a sister's charms, or hear Sighs for a daughter with unwounded ear; She, who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules; Charms by accepting, by submitting,... 
