 She, who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules; Charms by accepting, by submitting, sways, Yet has her humour most, when she obeys...  My Study Windows - Page 259by James Russell Lowell - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 428 pages
...wife's merit is to win a way for her own will by a crafty self-control and a refined dissimulation : "She who can love a sister's charms, or hear Sighs...with unwounded ear ; She who ne'er answers till a hushand cools, ' Or if she rules him, never shows she rules ; Charms by accepting, by submitting sways,... | |
 | Henry Reed - English literature - 1855 - 404 pages
...wife's merit is to win a way for her own will by a crafty self-control and a refined dissimulation : "She who can love a sister's charms, or hear Sighs for a daughter with unwounded car; She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or if she rules him, never shows she rules ; Charms... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 570 pages
...hallow'd Breast, Pillows his Head, and lays his Heart to rest ; Drying her cheek from sympathetic shower. who ne'er answers till a Husband cools, Or, if she...Charms by accepting, by submitting sways, Yet has her Humour most, when she obeys. THOU art alone, If thy rare qualities, sweet Gentleness, Thy meekness... | |
 | Francis Edward Paget - Children's literature - 1856 - 248 pages
...poet's model-wife. " O blest with temper, whose unclouded ray, Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day ; She who can love a sister's charms, or hear Sighs...daughter with unwounded ear ; She who ne'er answers till her husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules ; Charms by accepting, by submitting... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 362 pages
...orb declines. Oh ! bless'd with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day ; She, who can love a sister's charms, or hear Sighs for a daughter with unwounded ear ; aeo She, who ne'er answers till a. husband cools, 261 Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules... | |
 | David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - English literature - 1905 - 556 pages
...cheerful as today; She who can love a sister's charms, or hear Sighs for a daughter with un wounded ear ; She who ne'er answers till a husband cools,...Charms by accepting, by submitting sways, Yet has her humour most, when she obeys ; Lets fops or fortune fly which way they will, Disdains all loss of tickets... | |
 | Sir Alfred William Winterslow Dale - 1905 - 794 pages
...years. He ruled indeed, but it was in the same manner as the gracious lady described by Pope — who If she rules him never shows she rules ; Charms by accepting ; by submitting sways. ... I loved him for his charity. I was struck by it first of all in his treatment of the poor when... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1905 - 500 pages
...poet of the century : Blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as today; She who can love a sister's charms, or hear Sighs for a daughter with un wounded ear; She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules;... | |
 | Quotations - 1906 - 810 pages
...Are Out, st. 4 Oh! blessed with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day ; She, who can love a sister's charms, or hear Sighs for a daughter with unwounded ear; Charms by accepting, by submitting sways, Yet has her humour most, when she obeys. POPE, Moral Essays,... | |
 | 1906 - 832 pages
...epithet ' divine.' " Though she rules her husband, says the poet, " She never shows she rules ; She charms by accepting, by submitting sways, Yet has her humor most when she obeys." Nowadays, a poet desiring to praise a woman would not speak as Pope spoke, who is however credited... | |
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