Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, "Tis woman's whole existence; man may range The court, camp, church, the vessel, and the mart; Sword, gown, gain, glory, offer in exchange Pride, fame, ambition, to fill up his heart, And few there are whom these... Don Juan, complete; English bards, and Scotch reviewers; Hours of idleness ...by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1826No preview available - About this book
| Martin Robb - Communication - 2004 - 386 pages
...rules are buttressed by her beliefs concerning how important love should be. The poet Lord Byron wrote, 'Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'tis woman's whole existence'. Does love loom larger for our bride than it does for her groom? Or does she now try to make love a... | |
| William Wells Brown - Fiction - 2003 - 324 pages
...acquaintance, and get the mysterious meeting in the grave-yard solved. CHAPTER XXVIII THE HAPPY MEETING "Man's love is of man's life, a thing apart; Tis woman's whole existence." — Byron.' The clock on a neighbouring church had scarcely ceased striking three, when the servant... | |
| Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - Literary Collections - 2004 - 592 pages
...this, more sure, much chaster than the other. Ph. Fletcher, The Purple Island (1633). Love. ".Jfan's love is of man's life a thing apart ; 'tis woman's whole existence." —Byron, Don Juan, i. 194 (1819). Love. 'Tis better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved... | |
| William L. Andrews - Literary Collections - 2006 - 328 pages
...Byron (1788-1824), English Romangilius Maro, Latin poet and author tic poet. "Man's love," he wrote, "is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole...we but one— To love again and be again undone?* 1 This may have been true when written. It is not true to-day. The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent... | |
| William L. Andrews - Literary Collections - 2006 - 328 pages
...Byron (1788-1824), English Romangilius Maro, Latin poet and author tic poet. "Man's love," he wrote, "is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole...resources, we but one — To love again and be again undone"47 This may have been true when written. It is not true to-day. The old, subjective, stagnant,... | |
| Janet Todd - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 3 pages
...before her concerning the inhibited state of women in society, from the Romantic misogyny of Byron - 'man's love is of man's life a thing apart, / 'Tis woman's whole existence' - to Mary Hays's lament in Emma Courtney that social constraint results in debilitating romantic love... | |
| Barbara Britton Wenner - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 150 pages
...echoing More but soon after the publication of Persuasion, Byron's sentiments reiterate Anne's feelings: Man's love is of man's life, a thing apart, Tis woman's whole existence. ("Don Juan" c. I st. 194) being less exposed to be seductions of extraneous beauty, and will win the... | |
| Jocelyn Harris - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 288 pages
...Austen's compliment to his "first-rate" poetry (100) when the deserted Julia writes in Don Juan (1819), Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, Tis woman's...resources, we but one, To love again, and be again undone.67 In Austen, though, it is a woman rather than a man who is desolate yet constant ( 36) , a... | |
| Elizabeth Siegel Watkins - Business & Economics - 2007 - 382 pages
...physiology and poetry— the role of hormones in menstruation, pregnancy, and menopause and Byron's couplet "Man's love is of man's life a thing apart / Tis woman's whole existence"— were cited as evidence for the assertion that "women's health and happiness center around her sexual... | |
| A. Rose - Social Science - 2008 - 205 pages
...159 Libertas Habitat Ibi Nostra Patria Est" % 173 Acknowledgments 177 Sources 179 183 A Stone Sonnet "Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence. " Lord Byron "We do no great things; only small things with great love. " Mother Teresa, "She is the... | |
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