| Coventry Patmore - 1854 - 212 pagine
...credit her desired regard. Ah, wasteful woman, she that may On her sweet self set her own price, o Knowing he cannot choose but pay, How has she cheapen'd...; « How given for nought her priceless gift, How spoil'd the bread and spill'd the wine, Which, spent with due, respective thrift, Had made brutes men... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1855 - 922 pagine
...And here is a far-reaching suggestion for woman to ponder over : — Ah ! wasteful woman, she that may On her sweet self set her own price, Knowing he cannot choose but pay, How has she cheapened Paradise ; How given for nought her priceless gift, How spoiled the bread and spilled the... | |
| John Ruskin - 1856 - 426 pagine
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| Coventry Kersey D. Patmore - 1857 - 324 pagine
...nought's debarr'd Si r82 PRELUDES. From man, when woman shall be just In gift of her desired regard. Ah, wasteful woman, she who may On her sweet self...paradise ; How given for nought her priceless gift, How spoil'd the bread and spill'd the wine, Which, spent with due, respective thrift, Had made brutes men... | |
| 1858 - 444 pagine
...merit this, and nought's debarr'd From man, when woman shall be just In yielding her desired regard. Ah, wasteful woman, she who may On her sweet self...paradise ! How given for nought her priceless gift, How spoil'd the bread and spill'd the wine, Which spent with due, respective thrift, Had made brutes men... | |
| Coventry Patmore - 1860 - 328 pagine
...this, and nought's debarr'd sift From man, when woman shall be just In yielding her desired regard. Ah, wasteful woman, she who may On her sweet self...paradise ; How given for nought her priceless gift, How spoil'd the bread and spill'd the wine, Which, spent with due, respective thrift, Had made brutes men,... | |
| Coventry Patmore - 1863 - 342 pagine
...merit this, and nought's debarr'd From man, when woman shall be just In yielding her desired regard. Ah, wasteful woman, she who may On her sweet self...paradise ; How given for nought her priceless gift, How spoil'd the bread and spill'd the wine, Which, spent with due, respective thrift, Had made brutes men,... | |
| 1863 - 1076 pagine
...pride, And none so intimate with shame, And none to manhood so denied, As not to mind if women blame. Ah, wasteful woman, she who may On her sweet self...paradise ! How given for nought her priceless gift ; How spoil'd the bread and spilled the wine, Which, spent with due, respective thrift, Had made brutes men,... | |
| 1865 - 590 pagine
...caprice of a romantic fashion, but the type of an eternal truth ; and he wishes Coventry Patmore's lines were learned by all the youthful ladies of England....price, Knowing he cannot choose but pay — How has she cheapened paradise ! How given for nought her priceless gift, How spoiled the bread and spilled the... | |
| John Ruskin - 1865 - 302 pagine
...yon not those lovely lines — I would they were learned by all youthful ladies of England : — x " Ah wasteful woman ! she who may On her sweet self...own price, / Knowing he cannot choose but pay— How baa she cheapen' d Paradise ! How given for nought her priceless gift, How spoiled the bread and spill'd... | |
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