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" 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.) - 1826
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Daughters of the Great Depression: Women, Work, and Fiction in the American ...

Laura Hapke - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 316 pages
...their allegiance to social protest, implicitly approved Lord Byron's famous assertion in Don Juan that "Man's love is of man's life a thing apart / 'Tis woman's whole existence." The former Young Communist League and sometime Socialist Murray Kempton explained that even politically...
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Who We are: Our Dignity as Human : a Neo-evangelical Theology

Paul King Jewett - Religion - 1996 - 508 pages
...sexuality in a way that the man is not. They have taken their text from Byron rather than the Bible: Man's love is of man's life a thing apart; Tis woman's whole existence. To cite a case in point, Helmut Thielicke argues that a woman reveals more of her essential personhood...
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Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917

Thomas Stearns Eliot - Poetry - 1996 - 476 pages
...vii 8 5 : 'All dark and comfortless', (ii) (given TSE's context) Byron, Don Juan, I [cxciv] 1545—6: 'Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence;' The Little Passion: From "An Agony in the Garret" Donald Gallup suggests that this is to be dated 191...
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The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other ...

Anna Julia Cooper - History - 1998 - 374 pages
...picture, whether a thing of beauty or not, has faded from the canvas of to-day. "Man's love," he wrote, is of man's life a thing apart, Tis woman's whole...— And few there are whom these cannot estrange. 8. Reference to Grant Allen, author of Plain Words on the Woman Question, quoted on page 81. Men have...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...still she strove, and much repented, And whispering 'I will ne'er consent' consented. 1974 Don yuan eft for you, not even suicide, but to be good. 1 1 199 Virginibus Pueris 1975 Don Juan Merely innocent flirtatlon. Not quite adultery, but adulteratlon. 1976 Don yuan Now hatred...
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Emotions in Social Life: Critical Themes and Contemporary Issues

Gillian Bendelow, Simon Johnson Williams - Medical - 1998 - 372 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...
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The Millstone

Margaret Drabble - Fiction - 1966 - 196 pages
...handy image, thesis-wise, caught my attention, and I noted it down. Lucky in work, unlucky in love. Love is of man's life a thing apart, 'tis woman's whole existence, as Byron mistakenly remarked. On the way home I called in at Unwin's and bought a bottle of gin. As...
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The Gendered Society

Michael S. Kimmel - Psychology - 2000 - 334 pages
...different working world. GENDERED INTERACTIONS _C H_A PTER GENDERED INTIMACIES Friendship and Love "Man's love is of man's life a thing apart. Tis woman's whole existence." So wrote the legendary great British romantic poet George Gordon, Lord Byron. Presumably, this was...
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The Romantic Subject in Autobiography: Rousseau and Goethe

Eugene L. Stelzig - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 302 pages
...patriarchal world epitomized in the farewell letter of Byron's disgraced Donna Julia to her teenage lover: "Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, / Tis woman's whole existence" (Don Juan, Canto i, stanza 194). "THE NEW PARIS" If, unlike Augustine and Rousseau, Goethe does not...
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Every Day Is Mother's Day

Hilary Mantel - Fiction - 2000 - 240 pages
...it so much to ask, is it so bloody much? How she laughed and said, you have all the women's lines. Man's love is of man's life a thing apart/ 'Tis woman's whole existence. Thank you, Lord Byron, mind how you go. Have a nice day. CHAPTER 4 Evelyn had to take her time now....
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