Ah, wasteful woman! — she who may On her sweet self set her own price, Knowing he cannot choose but pay — How has she cheapen'd Paradise ! How given for nought her priceless gift, How spoiled the bread and spill'd the wine, Which, spent with due respective... The St. James's Magazine and United Empire Review - 710 ページ1879全文表示 - この書籍について
| Algernon de Vivier Tassin - 1923 - 456 ページ
...speak not to the sun. AC SWINBUBNE — Thalassius 14. WASTEFUL WOMAN AH wasteful woman, — she that may On her sweet self set her own price, Knowing he cannot choose but pay, — How has she cheapened Paradise! How given for naught her priceless gift! How spoiled the bread and spilled the... | |
| Viola Tree - 1926 - 352 ページ
...try to write " An Englishwoman in Italy." Do you advise ? HHA THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE. Ah ! foolish woman — she who may On her sweet self set her own...price ; Knowing he cannot choose but pay : How has she cheapened Paradise ! How given for nought her priceless gift ! How spoiled the bread and spilled the... | |
| George Carver - 1926 - 504 ページ
...ease what do he must 5 Or lose her; and there's naught debarred . . . Ah, wasteful woman! she that may On her sweet self set her own price, Knowing he cannot choose but pay, — How has she cheapened Paradise ! 10 How given for naught her priceless gift! How spoiled the bread and spilled... | |
| Edith Mary Gell - 1927 - 358 ページ
...and gracious assent. The remedy lies in her own hands, as Coventry Patmore long ago assured us : " Ah ! Wasteful woman ! She who may On her sweet self...price, Knowing he cannot choose but pay How has she cheapened Paradise 1 ' ' After all, such instances as the above are in a minority. The frank cameraderie... | |
| Herbert Henry Asquith - 1928 - 384 ページ
...literature, to recall the now too often neglected names of those whom " it" altered to " fashion." Ah, wasteful woman, she who may On her sweet self...nought her priceless gift, How spoiled the bread and spill'd the wine, Which, spent with due, respective thrift, Had made brutes men, and men divine. These,... | |
| Herbert Henry Asquith - 1928 - 384 ページ
...literature, to recall the now too often neglected names of those whom " it" altered to " fashion." Ah, wasteful woman, she who may On her sweet self...nought her priceless gift, How spoiled the bread and spill'd the wine, Which, spent with due, respective thrift, Had made brutes men, and men divine. These,... | |
| Pamela Grey - 1928 - 272 ページ
...written out upon his brow, For many then our tears would flow, Who only move our envy now. Metastasio. AH, wasteful Woman! she who may On her sweet self...price, Knowing he cannot choose but pay, How has she cheapened Paradise ! How given for nought the priceless gift, How spoilt the bread, and spilled the... | |
| John Ruskin - 1928 - 316 ページ
...you not those lovely lines — I would they were learned by all youthful ladies of England : — " Ah wasteful woman ! — she who may On her sweet self set her own price, Knowing he cannot choose bat pay — How has she cheapen 'd Paradise ! How given for nought her priceless gift, How spoiled... | |
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