 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 440 pages
...MONTAGUE. In beauty or wit, No mortal as yet To question your empire has dared, But men of discerning Have thought that, in learning, To yield to a lady was hard. THE RAPE OF THE LOCK. Canto I. What dire offence from amorous causes springs, What mighty contests... | |
 | Oliver Bell Bunce - Women in literature - 1883 - 332 pages
...POPE. L tf beauty or wit No mortal as yet To question your empire has dared ; But men of discerning Have thought that in learning To yield to a lady was hard. n. Impertinent schools With musty dull rules Have reading to females denied ; So papists refuse The... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1889 - 1264 pages
...efforts in the sphere of literature, and in the spheres of science and of art too. Men of discerning Have thought that, in learning, To yield to a lady was hard. Lady Blennerhassett has fairly triumphed over ' her birth's invidious bar,' and has vindicated for... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1893 - 578 pages
...1720.] 105 r N beauty, or wit, No mortal as yet To question your empire has dared: But men of discerning Have thought that in learning, To yield to a lady was hard. II. Impertinent schools, With musty dull rules, Have reading to females denied; So Papists refuse The... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1899 - 534 pages
...MONTAGU. IN beauty, or wit, No mortal as yet To question your empire has dared; But men of discerning Have thought that in learning, To yield to a lady was hard. II. Impertinent schools, With musty dull rules, Have reading to females denied ; So papists refuse... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1893 - 566 pages
...r "N beauty, or wit, J. No mortal as yet To question your empire has dared : But men of discerning Have thought that in learning, To yield to a lady was hard. 'Twas a woman at first (Indeed she was curst^ In knowledge that tasted delight, And sages- agree The... | |
 | 1907 - 1012 pages
...beginning— " In beauty or wit, No mortal as yet To question your empire has dared. But men of discerning Have thought that in learning To yield to a lady was hard." Such praise from such a quarter was of itself enough to make Lady Mary's name widely known, and incidentally... | |
 | American periodicals - 1897 - 1016 pages
...Montagu. In beauty aud wit No mortal as yet To question your empire has dared; But men of discerning Have thought that, in learning. To yield to a lady was hard. Even the little jibes and jeers which Punch and Life have flung so liberally at girl graduates, and... | |
 | Agnes Repplier - Literature - 1897 - 252 pages
...Montagu. " In beauty and wit No mortal as yet To question your empire has dared ; But men of discerning Have thought that, in learning, To yield to a lady was hard." Even the little jibes and jeers which " Punch " and " Life " have flung so liberally at girl graduates,... | |
 | Edward Arber - English poetry - 1899 - 352 pages
...1720.] IN Beauty, or Wit, No mortal, as yet, To question your empire has dared ! But men of discerning Have thought, that in Learning, To yield to a Lady was hard ! Impertinent Schools, With musty dull rules, Have reading to Females denied : So Papists refuse The Bible to use... | |
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IN beauty, or wit, No mortal as yet To question your empire has dared; But men of discerning Have thought that in learning, To yield to a lady was hard. 
