 | William Andrews - 1891 - 260 pages
...not think that a woman had a right to wield a poet's pen, and to such she adverts in the following lines : " I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who...do prove well, it won't advance ; They'll say it's stol'n, or else it was by chance." Here are four lines on "The Vanity of all Worldly Things," which,... | |
 | 1892 - 780 pages
...should refuse to indulge them in acting upon such principles. — Charles Grandison Finney. PROLOGUE. I AM obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my...wits ; If what I do prove well, it won't advance, They'l say it's stolen, or else it was by chance. But sure the Antique Greeks were far more mild Else... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1893 - 332 pages
...that early day, upon the proper sphere of woman, for Mistress Anne says: — " I am obnoxious to eacli carping tongue Who says my hand a needle better fits....what I do prove well, it won't advance, They'll say it 's stol'n, or else it was by chance." We print a few lines from " An Elegie upon that Honourable... | |
 | Governor Thomas Dudley Family Association - 1893 - 460 pages
...were contrary to what was expected of women, for in the prologue to her Four Elements she wrote : [ am obnoxious to each carping tongue, Who says my hand a needle better liU. A. pout's pen all scorn I should thus bring, For such despite they cast on women's wits. If what... | |
 | Governor Thomas Dudley Family Association - 1894 - 362 pages
...they were contrary to what was expected of women, for in the prologue to her Four Elements she wrote : I am obnoxious to each carping tongue, Who says my...better fits. A poet's pen all scorn I should thus bring, For such despite they cast on women's wits. If what I do prove well, it won't advance; They... | |
 | Katharine Lee Bates - 1897 - 434 pages
...four large silver spoons, felt obliged to apologize for her intrusion into the realm of letters. " I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my...do prove well, it won't advance, They'll say it's stol'n, or else it was by chance." Very woman in this, she disarms masculine criticism by a touch of... | |
 | Anne Bradstreet - 1897 - 458 pages
...Anne Bradstreet Art can do much, but this maxim 's most sure: A weak or wounded brain admits no cure. I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my...female wits, If what I do prove well, it won't advance — They 'll say it 's stolen, or else it was by chance. But sure the antique Greeks were far more... | |
 | May Alden Ward - 1897 - 304 pages
...Anne herself, in her prologue, forestalls those who might object to a woman's wielding a pen:— " I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my hand a needle better fits, A Poets pen all scorn I thus should wrong, For such despite they cast on Female wits: If what I do prove... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1898 - 450 pages
...all this, she was a woman, and, as she writes, " Obnoxious to each carping tongue, Who says my band a needle better fits, A poet's pen all scorn I should...wrong, For such despite they cast on female wits." Yet in the teeth of such discouragement Anne Bradstreet wrote the best verses produced in New England... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1898 - 462 pages
...inspiring in the literature of that golden time. Besides all this, she was a woman, and, as she writes, " Obnoxious to each carping tongue, Who says my hand a needle better fits, A poet's pen all scorn 1 should thus wrong, For such despite they cast on female wits." Yet in the teeth of such discouragement... | |
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I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my hand a needle better fits, A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong, For such despite they cast on female wits: If what I do prove well, it won't advance, They'll say it's stol'n, or else it was by chance. 
