| John Milton - 1795 - 282 pages
...migiit best fulfil the work which here 230 God hath assign' d us, nor of me shalt pass Unprais'd : for nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study...household good, And good works in her husband to promote. Yet not so striftly hath our Lord impos'd Labour, as to debar us when we need Refreshment, whether... | |
| John Milton - 1795 - 260 pages
...domestic Adam] This epithet teems to allude to what Adam had said in ver. 232. —nothing lovelier can he found • • In woman than to study household good, And good works in her hushand to promote. ' " Domestic in his care," may signify here one who has a cartful regard to the... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...might best fulfil the work which here God hath assign'd us ; nor of me shalt pass 23 1 Unprais'd : for nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study...household good, And good works in her husband to promote. Yet not so strictly hath our Lord impos'd 235 Labour, as to debar us when we need Refreshment, whether... | |
| John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...might best fulfil the work which here 230 God hath assign'd us, nor of me shah pass Unprais'd : for nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study...household good, And good works in her husband to promote. Yet not so strictly hath our Lord impos'd 435 Labour, as to debar us when we need Refreshment, whether... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1804 - 524 pages
...other papers ; wherein the lion will publish his private intelligence. No. 120. WEDNESDAY, JULY 29. Nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study...household good, And good works in her husband to promote. MILTON. "SIR, A Bit for the Lion. soon as you have set up your unicorn, there is no question but the... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...might best fulfil the works which here 23* God hath assigh'd us, nor of me shalt pass Unprais'd : for nothing lovelier can be found in woman, than to study household good, And good works in her hushand to promote. Yet not so strictly hath our Lord impos'd Labor, as to dehar us when we need Refreshment,... | |
| Medora Gordon Byron - 1809 - 342 pages
...after our heroine had retired, Lady Townly arrived in Portman-square. CHAP. VIII. — — — " For nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good." THE countenance of the Baronet, next morning, bore strong indications of a disordered frame. Celia... | |
| Hannah More - Courtship - 1809 - 270 pages
...of the sex, that the poet should affirm, that it is the perfection of the character of a wife, > " To study household good - , And good works in her husband to promote." Now according to my notion of " household good," -which does not include one idea of drudgery or servility,... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1810 - 384 pages
...shall be the work of another day.* * See Strada, lib. ii. Prol. 6. N° 120. WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1713. —Nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to...household good, And good works in her husband to promote. MILTON. A BIT FOR THE LIQN. I ' SIR, ' As soon as you have set up your unicorn,* there is no question... | |
| William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...we might best fulfil the work which here God hath assign'd us; nor of me shalt pass Unprais'd : for nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study...household good, And good works in her husband to promote,. Yet not so strictly hath our Lord impos'd i Labour, as to debar us when we need Refreshment, whether... | |
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