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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. "
The Second Church in Boston: Commemorative Services Held on the Completion ... - Page 85
by Second Church (Boston, Mass.) - 1900 - 206 pages
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An Account of Anne Bradstreet: The Puritan Poetess, and Kindred Topics

Luther Caldwell - 1898 - 106 pages
...the opposite, and live up to her convictions and opportunities. Mrs. Bradstreet said that she " Was obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my hand a needle better fits." CHAPTER II. ANNE BRADSTREET AND HER IPSWICH HOME. AMONG the honorable and notable persons who came...
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Literary Pilgrimages in New England to the Homes of Famous Makers of ...

Edwin Monroe Bacon - 1902 - 556 pages
...some of them, evidently criticised her literary proclivities, for she wrote iu " The Prologue " : — "I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my hand a needle better fits, A Poets pen all scorn I should thus wrong, For such despite they cast on Female wits : If what I do prove...
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American Literature

Julian Willis Abernethy - 1902 - 520 pages
...and restrains criticism. Another form of discouragement she had to face, also, for she writes : — I am obnoxious to each carping tongue, Who says my hand a needle better fits. Her poems were published in London in 165t>, under a high-sounding title for which she was not responsible...
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Literary Pilgrimages in New England to the Homes of Famous Makers ..., Volume 1

Edwin Monroe Bacon - 1902 - 300 pages
...some of them, evidently criticised her literary proclivities, for she wrote in " The Prologue " : — "I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my hand a needle better (its, A Poet s pen all scorn I should thus wrong, For such despite they cast on Female wits: If what...
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Old Paths and Legends of New England: Saunterings Over Historic Roads, with ...

Katharine Mixer Abbott - 1903 - 522 pages
...Bradstrcct House, .\'orth Andoi'er. Home of Mistress Anne Bradstrcct. "The tenth muse sprung up in Amer1ca." "I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my...wrong. For such despite they cast on female wits." North Andover 189 Across the road is the old Phillips Manse, ' the ancestral home of Phillips Brooks....
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Old Paths and Legends of New England ...

Katharine Mixer Abbott - 1904 - 524 pages
...Rradstreet House, North A ndover. Home of Mistress Anne Bradstrcct. " The tenth muse sprung up in America." "I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my...should thus wrong, For such despite they cast on female mils." North Andover 189 Across the road is the old Phillips Manse,1 the ancestral home of Phillips...
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Selections from Early American Writers, 1607-1800

William B. Cairns - 1909 - 528 pages
...admits no cure. 5 I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who sa,ys my hand a needle better fits, A Poets pen all scorn I should thus wrong, For such despite...Female wits: If what I do prove well, it won't advance, They'l say it's stoln, or else it was by chance. But sure the Antique Greeks were far more mild Else...
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Old Boston Days & Ways: From the Dawn of the Revolution Until the Town ...

Mary Caroline Crawford - 1909 - 542 pages
...penned, in the middle of the seventeenth century, as the prologue to her book, " The Tenth Muse: " ' I am obnoxious to each carping tongue, Who says my...hand a needle better fits; A poet's pen all scorn I thus would wrong. For such despite they cast on female wits, If what I do prove well, it won't advance;...
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Old Boston Days & Ways: From the Dawn of the Revolution Until the Town ...

Mary Caroline Crawford - 1909 - 538 pages
...to each carping tongue, Who says my hand a needle better fits; A poet's pen all scorn I thus would wrong. For such despite they cast on female wits,...what I do prove well, it won't advance; They'll say 'tis stolen, or else it was by chance." The last three lines seem to me very good work, far better...
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Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the ..., Volume 1

William Richard Cutter, William Frederick Adams - 1910 - 928 pages
...the part of her neighbors for studying and writing so much, is evident from these lines of hers: " I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my hand a needle better fits." She died of a consumption, and a statement of her sad condition in the last stages of the disease is...
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