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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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The Pioneer Mothers of America: A Record of the More Notable Women ..., Volume 1

Harry Clinton Green, Mary Wolcott Green - 1912 - 522 pages
...Boston of that day as Ann Hutchinson's "revelations." Among other sentiments in her poems are these : "I am obnoxious to each carping tongue, Who says my...hand a needle better fits, A poet's pen all scorn I thus should wrong, For such, despite they cast on female wits, If what I say prove well, it won't advance,...
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The Modern Language Review, Volume 9

John George Robertson, Charles Jasper Sisson - 1914 - 598 pages
...ventures on a lighter vein, but is evidently nervous as to the reception she is likely to meet with : I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my hand a needle better tits ; A Poets pen all scorn I should thus wrong, For such despite they cast on Female wits: If what...
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Readings from American Literature: A Textbook for Schools and Colleges

Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - 1915 - 670 pages
...striving pain ; 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 hand a needle better tits ; A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong ; For such despite they cast on female wits ; If...
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American Poetry

Percy Holmes Boynton, Howard Mumford Jones, George Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster - 1918 - 750 pages
...striving pain Art can do much, but this maxime's most sure A weak or wounded brain admits no cure. 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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Poet Lore, Volume 30

1919 - 694 pages
...writing, which she did in the Prologue to the Four Elements. I am obnoxious to each carping tongue That says my hand a needle better fits. A poet's pen all...They'll say, It's stolen or else it was by chance. To atone for this frankness, she thinks it advisable, two stanzas later, to placate the men whose criticism...
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Colonial Women of Affairs: A Study of Women in Business and the Professions ...

Elisabeth Williams Anthony Dexter, Elisabeth Anthony Dexter - 1924 - 286 pages
...building up this country than in any other way. CHAPTER VII WITH TONGUE, PEN, AND PRINTER'S INK A. Authors "I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my...They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance." l THUS Anne Bradstreet, the first American poet, complained of the current attitude toward the literary...
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Century Readings for a Course in American Literature

Fred Lewis Pattee - 1922 - 1086 pages
...admits no cure. I am obnoxious to each carping tongue 25 Who says my hand a needle better fits, A Poets pen all scorn I should thus wrong, For such despite...wits : If what I do prove well, it won't advance, They '1 say it 's stoln, or else it was by chance. 3° But sure the Antique Greeks were far more mild...
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Beacon Lights of History: New hall of fame. Premier personalities

John Lord - 1924 - 1012 pages
...whole duty consisted in polishing her thirteen pewter platters and her four large silver spoons : " 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...
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A Book of American Literature

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - 1927 - 1288 pages
...maxime's most sure: A weak or wounded brain admits no cure. I am obnoxious to each carping tongue 25 Who says my hand a needle better fits;" A poet's pen...female wits. If what I do prove well, it won't advance; They'l say it's stoln, or else it was by chance. зо But sure the antique Greeks were far more mild,...
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American Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology

Cheryl Walker - 1992 - 484 pages
..."Prologue" to The Tenth Muse, Bradstreet writes: I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who savs mv hand a needle better fits, A poet's pen all scorn...do prove well, it won't advance, They'll say it's stol'n, or else it was by chance. We know from the journal of John Winthrop that another literary female,...
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