 | British drama - 1804 - 1084 pages
...for the bravest fellow in Europe may beat his brains out against the stubborn walls of a town — But Women, born to be controlled, Stoop to the forward, and the bold. [Exeunt. ACT III. SCENE I.— Continue». Enter LORD MORELOVE, and SIR CHARLES. Lord Mor. So ! Did... | |
 | Lady Charlotte Campbell Bury, Lady of rank - 1838 - 228 pages
...and the two younger sisters, after exchanging a look, followed her out of the room. CHAPTER VII. u Women, born to be controlled, Stoop to the forward and the bold. Man's beau ideal of the softer sex, Is gentle meekness, sweet simplicity." THE day fixed for Lindsay's... | |
 | 1840 - 598 pages
...woman's heart, but once won, they often retain it in spite of the worst treatment. Whether it be that " Women, born to be controlled, Stoop to the forward and the bold ;" but between his roughness to women in general and his kindness to themselves in particular. When... | |
 | Stephen Rumbold Lushington - Generals - 1840 - 596 pages
...succeeds. Some poet says (and I suppose these gentlemen make Fortune a female for that purpose), that, Women, born to be controlled, Stoop to the forward and the bold. However, I feel such confidence in the little blind urchin, after his attention in delivering my letters... | |
 | Stephen Rumbold Lushington - Generals - 1840 - 586 pages
...succeeds. Some poet says (and I suppose these gentlemen make Fortune a female for that purpose), that, Women, born to be controlled, Stoop to the forward and the bold. However, I feel such confidence in the little blind urchin, after his attention in delivering my letters... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1853 - 764 pages
...better sign in a young fellow, than terpere humi, tutus nimium timidusque procellce. For men as well as women. • born to be controlled, Stoop to the forward and the bold. A man who sets out in the world with real timidity and diffidence has not an equal chance tor it: he... | |
 | Edmund Waller - English poetry - 1854 - 276 pages
...tremble, fawn and creep; Postures which render him despised, Where he endeavours to be prized. For women, (born to be controlled) Stoop to the forward and the bold; Affect the haughty and the proud, The gay, the frolic, and the loud. Who first the generous steed oppressed,... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1857 - 642 pages
...pious .Кпел-, when obttupuit, steleruntque comae ; et voxfaucibu» futsil) ! Fortune (as well as women) • born to be controlled, Stoop-, to the forward and the bold. Assurance and intrepidity, under the white banner of seeming modesty, clear the way for merit, that... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...tremble, fawn, and creep ; Postures which render him despised, Where he endeavours to be prized. For women — born to be controlled—- Stoop to the forward and the bold ; Affect the haughty and the proud, The gay, the frolic, and the loud. Who first the gen'rous steed... | |
 | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1882 - 508 pages
...Sßittoen gegenüber jitr SSerwegen^ett geraden wirb. 31иф ber SDiajter ЛУаНег, on love fagt: For women, born to be controlled, Stoop to the forward and the bold. 5>er luftige Síatí), ber für einen 9îarren gilt (SS. 32) ift ber гигз= meiltge 9iatt), ber... | |
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Women born to be controlled, Stoop to the forward and the bold, says Waller — and Lovelace too! 
