 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
 | William Wells Brown - 1853 - 296 pages
...acquaintance, and get the mysterious meeting in the grave-yard solvud. 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... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1854 - 320 pages
...the song of birds, The lisp of children, and their earliest words. DON JOAN. MAN AND WOMAN'S LOVE. MAN'S love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's...mart, Sword, gown, gain, glory, offer in exchange 2 Pride, fame, ambition, to fill up his heart, — And few there are whom these can not estrange ;... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 610 pages
...range The eourt, the eamp, ehureh, vessel, and the mart, Sword, gown, gain, glory, offer in exehange; Pride, fame, ambition, to fill up his heart ; And few there are whom these eannot estrange ; Men have all these resourees, we but one — To love again, and be again undone.... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 612 pages
...the eamp, ehureh, vessel, and the mart, Sword, gown, gain, glory, offer in exehange ; Pride, feme, ambition, to fill up his heart ; And few there are whom these eannot estrange ; Men have all these resourees, we but one — To love again, and be again undone.... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1857 - 450 pages
...I've nothing to reproach, or to request. CXCIV. " Man's love is of man's life a thing apart ; 10-1 'Tis woman's whole existence. Man may range The court,...we but one, — To love again, and be again undone. cxcv. " You will proceed in pleasure, and in pride, 195 Belov'd and loving many ; all is o'er For me... | |
 | James McGrigor Allan - Intellect - 1860 - 144 pages
...farewell letter of Donna Julia to her lover ! — " Man's love is of man's life a thing apart ; "Pis woman's whole existence. Man may range The court,...we but one — To love again, and be again undone." So true is this, that, to many men, failure in love has proved an advantage. Like Mr. Berkly in ' Hyperion,'... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1906 - 870 pages
...romance out of a chance encounter. He could smile now at that which had moved him yesterday. Certainly : Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's...exchange Pride, fame, ambition to fill up his heart. And the Honourable Bob, with his breezy self-assertion, had brought this home to him and, with a puff of... | |
 | Janet Maughan - 1860 - 376 pages
...give such love as this to mortal man — not even to such as Percy Lascelles. Byron truly says, — " Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence." Well and truly did Percy love this fair and gentle Irish girl ; but such love as hers it was not in... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1860 - 672 pages
...tenderly, clasp well-nigh with as much affection the unprecedented luck " two honours and five trumps !" Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence. Byron was right ; and if we go no deeper, how can it well be otherwise, when we have our stud, our... | |
 | Taki, Taki Theodoracopulos - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 244 pages
...marriage . . .' and so on. I prefer the same poet's simple truth about the difference between the sexes: 'Man's love is of man's life a thing apart,/ Tis woman's whole existence.' No, in conventional terms, I have not been the best husband. Which has nothing whatever to do with... | |
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