Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence ; man may range The court, camp, church, the vessel, and the mart ; Sword, gown, gain, glory, offer in exchange Pride, fame, ambition, to fill up his heart, And few there are whom... Spirit of the English Magazines - Seite 1051820Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Wells Brown - 2004 - 285 Seiten
...acquaintance, and get the mysterious meeting in the grave-yard solved. CHAPTER XXVIII THE HAPPY MEETING "Man's love is of man's life, a thing apart; Tis woman's whole existence." — Byron.' The clock on a neighbouring church had scarcely ceased striking three, when the servant... | |
 | Martin Robb - 2004 - 368 Seiten
...rules are buttressed by her beliefs concerning how important love should be. The poet Lord Byron wrote, 'Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'tis woman's whole existence'. Does love loom larger for our bride than it does for her groom? Or does she now try to make love a... | |
 | Emily Auerbach - 2004 - 344 Seiten
...out the window and resumes her writing. It seems we have made little progress from Byron's assertion, "Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, / 'Tis woman's whole existence." 3 ' 1 In fact, Howard Fast's play reminds me of an eighteenthcentury poet's "Advice to a Lady" included... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 2004 - 588 Seiten
...this, more sure, much chaster than the other. Ph. Fletcher, The Purple Island (1633). Love. ".Jfan's love is of man's life a thing apart ; 'tis woman's whole existence." —Byron, Don Juan, i. 194 (1819). Love. 'Tis better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved... | |
 | Katherine Ellison - 2005 - 332 Seiten
...University, which gave her an honorary doctorate in humanities, she quoted Lord Byron's dictum that "Man's love is of man's life a thing apart. 'Tis woman's whole existence." She spoke of woman's origin as Adam's "help like to himself" and went on: "In that tiny word, that... | |
 | William L. Andrews - 2006 - 314 Seiten
...Byron (1788-1824), English Romangilius Maro, Latin poet and author tic poet. "Man's love," he wrote, "is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole...fame, ambition, to fill up his heart— And few there are whom these cannot estrange. Men have all these resources, we but one — To love again and be again... | |
 | Barbara Britton Wenner - 2006 - 124 Seiten
...echoing More but soon after the publication of Persuasion, Byron's sentiments reiterate Anne's feelings: Man's love is of man's life, a thing apart, Tis woman's whole existence. ("Don Juan" c. I st. 194) being less exposed to be seductions of extraneous beauty, and will win the... | |
 | Janet Todd - 2006
...before her concerning the inhibited state of women in society, from the Romantic misogyny of Byron - 'man's love is of man's life a thing apart, / 'Tis woman's whole existence' - to Mary Hays's lament in Emma Courtney that social constraint results in debilitating romantic love... | |
 | Jocelyn Harris - 2007 - 280 Seiten
...Austen's compliment to his "first-rate" poetry (100) when the deserted Julia writes in Don Juan (1819), Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, Tis woman's...fame, ambition, to fill up his heart. And few there are whom these cannot estrange; Men have all these resources, we but one, To love again, and be again... | |
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