| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1849 - 428 páginas
...of Independence. FROM THE PROLOGUE TO THE FOUR ELEMENTS. I aм obnoxious to each carping tongue That says my hand a needle better fits ; A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong, For euch despite they cast on female wits ; If what I do prove well, it won't advance — They'll say,... | |
| Anne Bradstreet - 1867 - 536 páginas
...my hand a needle better fits, A Poets pen all fcorn I mould thus wrong, For fuch defpite they caft on Female wits : If what I do prove well, it won't advance, They'l fay it's ftoln, or elfe it was by chance. 6. But fure the Antique Greeks were far more mild... | |
| 1918 - 694 páginas
...then they said. (2). From Anne Bradstreet's Four Elements. I am obnoxious to each carping tongue That says my hand a needle better fits; A Poet's pen all...female wits; If what I do prove well, it won't advance — They'll say, It's stolen, or else it was by chance. American Notes — Editorial The Harvard "University... | |
| Justin Winsor - 1881 - 808 páginas
...versifications of history. The opposition to literary pursuits is shown by the statement in her prologue : — " I am obnoxious to each carping tongue, Who says my...hand a needle better fits ; A poet's pen all scorn I thus should wrong. For such despite they cast on female wits, If what I do prove well, it won't advance... | |
| Justin Winsor - 1881 - 786 páginas
...versifications of history. The opposition to literary pursuits is shown by the statement in her prologue: — " I am obnoxious to each carping tongue, Who says my...hand a needle better fits ; A poet's pen all scorn 1 thus should wrong. For such despite they cast on female wits, If what I do prove well, it won't advance... | |
| Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - 1884 - 536 páginas
...ANNE BRADSTREET. From THE PROLOGUE TO "THE FOUR ELEMENTS." 1 am obnoxious to each carping tongue That says my hand a needle better fits; A Poet's pen all...wits; If what I do prove well, it won't advance— They'll say, It's stolen, or else it was by chance. But sure, the antique Greeks were far more mild,... | |
| Justin Winsor - 1883 - 754 páginas
...each carping tongue. Who says my liaml a needle butter tits ; A poet's pen all scorn 1 thus should wrong. For such despite they cast on female wits, If what I do prove well, it won't advance ; They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance." A little poem on her children, and another to... | |
| Francis Henry Underwood - 1889 - 702 páginas
...and epitaphs ends the book. early day, upon the proper sphere of woman, for Mistress Anne says, — " I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my...wits : If what I do prove well, it won't advance, They'll say it's stol'n, or else it was by chance." We print a few lines from "An Elegie upon that... | |
| William Andrews - 1891 - 260 páginas
...that a woman had a right to wield a poet's pen, and to such she adverts in the following lines : " I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my...female wits : If what I do prove well, it won't advance ; They'll say it's stol'n, or else it was by chance." Here are four lines on "The Vanity of all Worldly... | |
| 1892 - 780 páginas
...should refuse to indulge them in acting upon such principles. — Charles Grandison Finney. PROLOGUE. I AM obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my...wits ; If what I do prove well, it won't advance, They'l say it's stolen, or else it was by chance. But sure the Antique Greeks were far more mild Else... | |
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