 | Anne Kingsmill Finch Countess of Winchilsea - 1902 - 588 pages
...fault. True judges, might condemn their want of witt, And all might say, they're by a Woman writt. Alas! a woman that attempts the pen, Such an intruder on the rights of men, 10 L Such a presumptuous Creature, is esteem'd, The fault, can by no vertue be redeem'd. They tell... | |
 | Anne Kingsmill Finch Countess of Winchilsea - 1902 - 584 pages
...fault. True judges, might condemn their want of witt, And all might say, they're by a Woman writt. Alas! a woman that attempts the pen, Such an intruder on the rights of men, 10 Such a presumptuous Creature, is esteem'd, The fault, can by no vertue be redeem'd. They tell us,... | |
 | Eighteenth century - 1909 - 196 pages
...herself open to attack by writing against the pettiness of the life interests of the average woman. Alas, a woman that attempts the pen, Such an intruder...the rights of men, Such a presumptuous creature is esteemed, The fault can by no virtue be redeemed. They tell us we mistake our sex and way: Good breeding,... | |
 | Anne Kingsmill Finch Countess of Winchilsea - Poets in English--18th century - 1928 - 124 pages
...finding fault. , True judges might condemn their want of wit; And all might say, they're by a woman writ. Alas! a woman that attempts the pen, Such an intruder...the rights of men, Such a presumptuous creature is esteemed, The fault can by no virtue be redeemed. They tell us we mistake our sex and way; Good breeding,... | |
 | Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar - American literature - 1979 - 370 pages
...Detroit, Mich. Introduction: Gender, Creativity, and the Woman Poet Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar Alas! a woman that attempts the pen, Such an intruder...is esteem'd, The fault can by no vertue be redeem'd . . . How are we fal'n, fal'n by mistaken rules? And Education's, more than Nature's fools, Debarr'd... | |
 | Donald Hall - Literary Criticism - 1982 - 524 pages
...presumptuous? "Alas!" complained Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, in the late seventeenth century, a woman that attempts the pen, Such an intruder on...dancing, dressing, play Are the accomplishments we shou'd desire; To write, or read, or think, or to enquire Wou'd cloud our beauty, and exaust our time,... | |
 | Clayton Koelb, Susan Noakes - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 392 pages
...persue. True judges, might condemn their want of witt, And all might say, they're by a Woman writt. Alas! a woman that attempts the pen, Such an intruder...presumptuous Creature, is esteem'd The fault, can by no virtue be redeem'd. They tell us, we mistake our sex and way; Good breeding, fassion, dressing, play... | |
 | Janet Todd - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 340 pages
...were very much aware of their strangeness. As the poet Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, remarked, 'Alas! A woman that attempts the pen,/ Such an intruder on the rights of men.'3 But it is not always clear in this period or in the early eighteenth century whether a work... | |
 | Barbara McGovern - Biography & Autobiography - 1992 - 302 pages
...fault. True judges, might condemn their want of witt, And all might say, they're by a Woman writt. Alas! a woman that attempts the pen, Such an intruder...esteem'd, The fault, can by no vertue be redeem'd. (4, lines 1-12) 2 While one must always be cautious in treating such texts as a reflection of a writer's... | |
 | Charles H. Hinnant - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 300 pages
...intended as an introduction to her 1713 Miscellany Poems on Several Occasions, for example, Finch wrote, Alas! a woman that attempts the pen, Such an intruder on the rights of men, 13 Such a presumptuous Creature, is esteem'd, The fault, can by no vertue be redeem'd. (11. 9-12) Finch's... | |
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Alas! a woman that attempts the pen. Such an intruder on the rights of men. Such a presumptuous Creature, is esteem'd, The fault, can by no vertue be redeem'd. 
