 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1858 - 436 ページ
...inferior kind of man. " 4?d ye*J bdieTe me. e<x>d. an well as ill, Woman's at best a contradiction still. Heaven, when it strives to polish all it can Its last best work, but forms a softer man." The friend of Stella and Vanessa made an inventory of the furniture of a woman's mind— " A. set of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 330 ページ
...though china fall. And yet believe me, good as well as ill, Woman's at best a contradiction still. Heaven, when it strives to polish all it can Its last...rules, Your taste of follies with our scorn of fools ; Reserve with frankness, art with truth allied, Courage with softness, modesty with pride ; Fix'd... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1859 - 520 ページ
...softer Man ;" nor did she at all approximate to the ideal description in which that phrase is employed : Heaven when it strives to polish all it can Its last...rules, Your taste of follies, with our scorn of fools : Reserve with frankness, art with truth allied, Courage with softness, modesty with pride.» Rather... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 872 ページ
...the ideal woman : And yet, believe me, good as well as ill. Woman's at best a contradiction still. Heaven, when it strives to polish all it can Its last...rules. Your taste of follies with our scorn of fools : Reserve with frankness, art with truth allied, Courage with softness, modesty with pride ; Fix'd... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 542 ページ
...though china fall. And yet, believe me, good as well as ill, Woman's at best a contradiction still. Heaven, when it strives to polish all it can Its last...softer man ; Picks from each sex, to make the favourite bless'd, Your love of pleasure, our desire of rest : Blends, in exception to all general rules, Your... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 334 ページ
...though china fall. And yet believe me, good as well as ill, Woman's at best a contradiction still. Heaven, when it strives to polish all it can Its last...rules, Your taste of follies with our scorn of fools ; Reserve with frankness, art with truth allied, Courage with softness, modesty with pride ; Fix'd... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1865 - 398 ページ
...Cowper. A Contradiction. And yet believe me, good as well as ill, Woman's at best a contradiction still. Heaven, when it strives to polish all it can Its last best works, forms but a softer man. Pope. Her Coquetry. I do confess thou'rt smooth and fair, And I might... | |
 | 1865 - 380 ページ
...Cowper. A Contradiction. And yet believe me, good as well as ill, Woman 's at best a contradiction still. Heaven, when it strives to polish all it can Its last best works, forms but a softer man. Pope. Her Coquetry. I do confess thou'rt smooth and fair, And I might... | |
 | 1866 - 328 ページ
...though china fall. And yet believe me, good as well as ill, Woman's at best a contradiction still. Heaven, when it strives to polish all it can Its last best work, but forms a softer man ; Pioks from each sex to make the favourite blest, Your love of pleasure, our desire of rest ; Blends,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 ページ
...codille ; Spleen, vapours, or small-poxr above them all, And mistress of herself, though china fall. Heaven, when it strives to polish all it can Its last...softer man ; Picks from each sex, to make the favourite bless'd, Your love of pleasure, our desire of rest: Blends, in exception to all general rules, Your... | |
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Blends, in exception to all general rules, Your taste of follies with our scorn of fools ; Reserve with frankness, art with truth allied, Courage with softness, modesty with pride ; Fix'd principles, with fancy ever new : Shakes all together, and produces... 
