 Toilsome and indigent) she renders much ; Just knows, and knows no more, her bible true, A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew, And in that charter reads, with sparkling eyes, Her title to a treasure in the skies.  What Men Have Said about Woman ... - Page 72edited by - 1865 - 320 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Christianity - 1845 - 1036 pages
...pocket light : She, for her humble sphere by nature fit, Has little understanding, and no wit. Receives no praise ; but, though her lot be such, (Toilsome...knows, and knows no more, her Bible true— A truth the brilliunt Frenchman never knew : And in that charter reads with sparkling eyes, Her title to a treasure... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - English literature - 1917 - 536 pages
...wit's a feather, and a chief's a rod ; An honest man's the noblest work of God. (From Moral Essays) And yet, believe me, good as well as ill, Woman's at best a contradiction still. In men we various ruling passions find ; In women two almost divide the kind ; 5 Those, only fixed,... | |
 | Frank Boreham - Christian fiction - 1918 - 280 pages
...pocket light ; She for her humble sphere by nature fit, Has little understanding and no wit. Receives no praise, but (though her lot be such, Toilsome and...sparkling eyes Her title to a treasure in the skies. The notable thing about this good lady, be it observed, is her mediocrity. She is neither ignorant... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - English literature - 1918 - 986 pages
...wit's a feather, and a chief's a rod ; An honest man's the noblest work of God. (From Moral Essays) And yet, believe me, good as well as ill, • Woman's at best a contradiction still. In men we various ruling passions find ; In women two almost divide the kind ; 5 Those, only fixed,... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - American literature - 1919 - 714 pages
...or Codille ; Spleen, Vapors, or Smallpox, above them au> And mistress of herself, tho' china fall. Heav'n when it strives to polish all it can Its last best work, but forms a softer Man ; Picks from... | |
 | JOHN BARTLETT - 1919 - 1476 pages
...much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home ! Line 4is. .lust knows, and knows no more, her Bible true, — A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew. Truth. Line 327. The sounding jargon of the sehooL.1 Lint aer. When one that holds communion with the... | |
 | Arthur Samuel Peake - Bible - 1922 - 306 pages
...insist on this because it is constantly overlooked. Cowper's famous couplet on the poor cottager who " Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true — A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew," illustrates what I mean. Her conviction Revelation in Experience 235 that the Bible was true rested... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - English poetry - 1926 - 744 pages
...pocket light ; She, for her humble sphere by nature fit, Has little understanding, and no wit, Receives no praise, but (though her lot be such, Toilsome and...sparkling eyes, Her title to a treasure in the skies. Oh happy peasant ! Oh unhappy bard ! His the mere tinsel, her's the rich reward ; He prais'd perhaps... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1926 - 306 pages
...or Codille; Spleen, Vapours, or Small-pox, above them all, And Mistress of herself, tho' China fall. And yet, believe me, good as well as ill, Woman's at best a Contradiction still. 270 Heav'n, when it strives to polish all it can Its last best work, but forms a softer Man; Picks... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1928 - 374 pages
...pocket light ; She, for her humble sphere by nature fit, Has little understanding, and no wit, Receives no praise ; but, though her lot be such, (Toilsome...sparkling eyes Her title to a treasure in the skies. O happy peasant ! Oh unhappy bard 1 His the mere tinsel, hers the rich reward j He prais'd, perhaps,... | |
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