 | Thomas Otway - 1797 - 456 páginas
...the charms Of youth, and somewhat of a lucky rashness, To please a woman yet more fool than he. That thoughtless sex is caught by outward form, And empty noise, and loves itself in man. Ale. But since the war broke out about our frontiers, He's now a foe to Thebes. Cre. But is not so... | |
 | 1794 - 450 páginas
...I do not know a finer piece of satire on this part of womankind, than those lines of Mr. DRYDEN, " Our thoughtless sex is caught by outward form, And empty noise; and loves itself in man." This is a source of infinite calamities to the sex, as it frequently joins them to men, who in their... | |
 | John Bell - 1797 - 460 páginas
...the charms Of youth, and somewhat of a lucky rashness, To please a woman yet more fool than he. That thoughtless sex is caught by outward form, And empty noise, and loves itself in man. Ale. But since the war broke out about our frontiers, He's now a foe to Thebes. Cre. But is not so... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 366 páginas
...sex. I do not know a finer piece of satire on this part of womankind, than those lines of Mr. Dryden, Our thoughtless sex is caught by outward form, And empty noise ; and loves itself in man. This is a source of infinite calamities to the sexj as it frequently joins them to men, who in their... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 342 páginas
...sex. I do not know a finer piece of satire on this part of womankind, than those lines of Mr. Dryden, Our thoughtless sex is caught by outward form, And empty noise ; and loves itself in man. This is a source of infinite calamities to the sex, as it frequently joins them to men, who in their... | |
 | 1822 - 634 páginas
...all his limbs and features such gestures as his glass informed him would be most becoming ; in fine, he was what we women call a mighty pretty fellow ; for, as the poet too justly says of us, 1 Our thoughtless sex is caught by outward form And empty noise, and loves itself in man.' As he either... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1809 - 312 páginas
...do not know a finer piece of of satire on this part of woman kind than those lines of Mr. Dryden : ' Our thoughtless sex is caught by outward form • And empty noise, and loves itself in man.' This is a source of infinite calamities to the sex, as it frequently joins them to men who, in their... | |
 | John Lambert - 1810 - 542 páginas
...the young ladies, and renders them very amiable coquettes, but often very indifferent wives. " The thoughtless sex is caught by outward form " And empty noise, and loves itself in man." It may be amusing to compare the manners of the Canadian females at the present day, with the account... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 508 páginas
...I do not know a finer piece of satire on this part of womankind, than those lines of Mr. Dry den : Our thoughtless sex is caught by outward form And empty noise, and loves itself in man. This is a source of infinite calamities to the sex, as it frequently joins them to men who in their... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 páginas
...I do not know a finer piece of satire on this part of womankind, than those lines of Mr. Dry den : Our thoughtless sex is caught by outward form And empty noise, and loves itself in man. This is a source of infinite calamities to the sex, as it frequently joins them to men who in their... | |
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Our thoughtless sex is caught by outward form, And empty noise ; and loves itself in man. 
