WOMAN WONDERS
A slighted woman knows no bounds. John Vanbrugh—The Mistake. Pt. I. Act II. Sc. 1.
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2 Let our weakness be what it will, mankind will still be weaker; and whilst there is a world, 'tis woman that will govern it. John Vanbrugh—Provoked Wife. Act III. </poem>
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Dux femina facti.
A woman was leader in the deed.
Vergil—ffineid. I. 364.
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Valium et mutabile semper,
Femina.
A woman is always changeable and capricious.
Vergil—Mneii. IV. 569.
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That which an enraged woman can accomplish.
Vergil—Æneid. V. 6.
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| text = <poem>All the reasonings of men are not worth one
sentiment of women.
Voltaire.
Very learned women are to be found, in the
same manner as female warriors; but they are
seldom or ever inventors.
Voltaire—A Philosophical Dictionary. Women.
"Woman" must ever be a woman's highest name,
And honors more than "Lady," if I know right.
Walter von der Vogelweide. Translated
in the Minnesinger of Germany. Woman
and Lady.
My wife is one of the best wimin on this
Continent, altho' she isn't always gentle as a
lamb with mint sauce.
Artemus Ward—A War Meeting.
She is not old, she is not young,
The Woman with the Serpent's Tongue.
The haggard cheek, the hungering eye,
The poisoned words that wildly fly,
The famished face, the fevered hand—
Who slights the worthiest in the land,
Sneers at the just, contemns the brave,
And blackens goodness in its grave.
William Watson—Woman with the Serpent's
Tongue.
What cannot a neat knave with a smooth tale
Make a woman believe?
John Webster—Duchess of Malfi. I. II.
Not from his head was woman took,
As made her husband to o'erlook;
Not from his feet, as one designed
The footstool of the stronger kind;
But fashioned for himself, a bride;
An equal, taken from his side.
Charles Wesley—Short Hymns on Select
Passages of the Holy Scriptures.
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There are only two kinds of women, the plain
and the coloured.
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in Woman of no Importance. Act III.
Oh! no one. No one in particular. A woman
of no importance.
| author = Oscar Wilde
| work = Woman of No Importance.
Act I.
Shall I, wasting in despaire,
Dye because a woman's faire?
Or make pale my cheeks with care
Cause another's rosie are?
Be shee fairer than the day, ;
Or the flow'ry meads in May;
If she be not so to me,
What care I how faire shee be?
George Wither—Mislresse of Philarete.
Percy—Reliques.
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| text = <poem>A Creature not too bright or .good
For human nature's daily food;
For transient sorrows, simple wiles,
Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears and smiles.
Wordsworth—She was a Phantom of Delight.
And now I see with eye serene,
The very pulse of the machine;
A Being breathing thoughtful breath,
A Traveller betwixt life and death;
The reason firm, the temperate will,
Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill.
Wordsworth—She was a Phantom of Delight.
A perfect Woman, nobly planned
To warn, to comfort, and command.
Wordsworth—She was a Phantom of Delight.
She was a Phantom of delight
When first she gleamed upon my sight;
A lovely Apparition, sent
To be a moment's ornament.
Wordsworth—She was a Phantom of Delight.
Shalt show us how divine a thing
A Woman may be made.
Wordsworth—To a Young Lady. Dear Child
of Nature.
And beautiful as sweet!
And young as beautiful! and soft as young!
And gay as soft! and innocent as gay.
Young—Night Thoughts. Night III. L. 81.
WONDERS
He shall have chariots easier than air,
That I will have invented; . . . And thyself,
That art the messenger, shalt ride before him
On a horse cut out of an entire diamond.
That shall be made to go with golden wheels,
I know not how yet.
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King. Act V.
A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!
BYRON-^Cfa'We Harold. Canto II. St. 2.
