 Where the dull duties of domestic life, Wage with the Muse's toils eternal strife. What motley cares Gorilla's mind perplex, While maids and metaphors conspire to vex...  The Works of Hannah More - Page 303by Hannah More - 1830Full view - About this book
 | BOUQUET. - 1780 - 354 pages
...the caufe, Who feed their follies with fuch full applaufe ; Yet ftill our tribe fhall feck to blaft their fame, And ridicule each fair pretender's aim ; Where the dull duties of domeltic life Wage with the Mufe's toils eternal ftrife. What motley cares CcriHa's mind perplex, "While... | |
 | Hannah More - 1803 - 526 pages
...spite, To find that women with such fame can write : But, oh, your partial favour is the cause, \Vhich feeds their follies with such full applause. Yet still...Gorilla's mind perplex, While maids and metaphors cohspirc to vex ! In studious deshabille behold her sit, A letter'd gossip, and a housewife wit; At... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...spite, To find that women with such fame can write : But O, your partial favor is the cause, Who feed their follies with such full applause; Yet still our...the muse's toils eternal strife. What motley cares Corilla's mind perplex, While maid* and metaphors conspire to vex ! In studious dishabille behold her... | |
 | John Watkins - 1817 - 374 pages
...following lines, descriptive of a learned lady's toilet, would have done credit to the pen of Swift. (( What motley cares Gorilla's mind perplex, While maids and metaphors conspire to veX I In studious deshabille behold her sit, A letter'd gossip, and a housewife wit : At once invoking,... | |
 | 1820 - 596 pages
...etiquette necessary on the occasion." " Ah !" cried she, shaking her head, and looking inimitably droll, " What motley cares Gorilla's mind perplex, While maids and metaphors conspire to vex. I was indeed in attendance on the Muses, who sometimes visit me when I retire to my fastnesses in this... | |
 | 1820 - 606 pages
...etiquette necessary oh the occasion." " Ah !" cried she, shaking her head, and looking inimitably droll, II What motley cares Gorilla's mind perplex, While maids and metaphors conspire to vex.' I was indeed in attendance on the Muses, who sometimes visit me when I retire to my fastnesses in this... | |
 | John Genest - 1832 - 626 pages
...spoken by Lee Lewes — it turns on the various avocations which distract the mind of a female writer. " What motley cares Gorilla's mind perplex, " While...maids and metaphors conspire to vex ! " In studious deshabille behold her sit, " A letter'd gossip, and a'housewife wit ; " At once invoking, though for... | |
 | Hannah More - 1834 - 508 pages
...(Din.) (T'le curtain falls to soft music.) 231 EPILOGUE. WRITTEN BY RB SHERIDAN, ESQ. SPOKEN BY MR. LEE LEWES. UNHAND me, gentlemen, by heaven, I say,...maids and metaphors conspire to vex ! In studious aishabille behold her sit, A letter'd gossip, and a housewife wit ; At once invoking, though for different... | |
 | Hannah More - 1838 - 544 pages
...i] Yet still our trihe shall seek to hlast their fami\; And ridicule each fair pretender's aim ; i Where the dull duties of domestic life Wage with the...perplex, While maids and metaphors conspire to vex ! in stndious dishahille hehold her sit,' A letter'd gossip, and a housewife wit, At once invoking, though... | |
 | Hannah More - 1839 - 570 pages
...the canse, Which feeds their follies with such full applanse. Yet still our trihe shall seek to hlast their fame, And ridicule each fair pretender's aim...the muse's toils eternal strife. What motley cares Corilla's mind perplex, While maids and metaphors conspire to vux ! In studious dishahille hehold her... | |
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