 | Edward Arber - English poetry - 1899 - 336 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 'Twas a woman, at... | |
 | Edward Arber - English poetry - 1901 - 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 'Twas a woman, at... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1887 - 892 pages
...Pope ? 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 old rules, Have reading to females denied ; So papists refuse The Bible to use,... | |
 | George Paston - Biography & Autobiography - 1907 - 672 pages
...— "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,... | |
 | Kate Stephens - American newspapers - 1916 - 344 pages
...delight, And sages agree The laws should decree To the first possessor the right. But men of discerning Have thought that in learning To yield to a lady was hard. "Lines to Lady Mary Wortley Montague," ALEXANDER POPE. For knowledge is not an inert and passive principle,... | |
 | Edwin Lillie Miller - Authors, English - 1917 - 688 pages
...her: " 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. But if the first Eve hard doom did receive When only one apple had she, What a punishment new shall... | |
 | Myra Reynolds - Literary Criticism - 1920 - 546 pages
...Pope wrote 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. Impertinent schools, With musty dull rules, I L1ve reading to females denied; So Papists refuse The Bible to use,... | |
 | Myra Reynolds - Literary Criticism - 1920 - 544 pages
...Pope wrote 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. Impertinent schools, With musty dull rules, Have reading to females denied; So Papists refuse The Bible to use,... | |
 | George R. Stewart - Ballads, English - 1922 - 128 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. A popular ballad by Swift shows the other use of the form:1 Ye Commons and Peers, Pray lend me your... | |
 | Literary and Historical Society of Quebec - Canada - 1869 - 252 pages
...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. " He talks, as he looks at her picture of " That happy air of majesty and truth ;" of " The equal lustre... | |
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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. 
