 | Lewis Saul Benjamin - Great Britain - 1927 - 358 pages
...to 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. " Impertinent schools, With musty dull rules, Have reading to females denied; So Papists refuse The Bible to use,... | |
 | Thomas Woody - Women - 1929 - 686 pages
...1720: "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." MARY AYOLLSTONECRAFT folly, when 'tis only the error of this inhuman custom, that hindered them from... | |
 | 1907 - 1056 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 wa< of itself enough to make Lady Mar, • name widely known, and incidentally... | |
 | Gillian Perry - Art - 1994 - 276 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. Impertinent Schools, with musty dull Rules, Have Reading to Females denied. So Papists refuse, the Bible to use... | |
 | English literature - 1767 - 746 pages
...Ptfe. IN beauty or wit, No mortal as yet To qucdion your empire has dar'd ; But men of diiccrning, Have thought that in learning, To yield to a lady...hard. Impertinent fchools, With mufty dull rules, Hive reading to females dcny'd; So Papifts refufe The Bible to ufe, Left flocks il юн Ul be wife... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1889 - 1112 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... | |
 | Literature - 1845 - 796 pages
...DESERTERS. In beanty 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. Critics avaunt! and find in what Pope said of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu the reason of your unwillingness... | |
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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. 
