 Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will ? For if she will, she will, you may depend on't. And if she won't, she won't; so there's an end on't.  Notes and Queries - Seite 3001864Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1895 - 768 Seiten
...good they say, and nothing right they do. Where is tlie man who has the power and skill Anonymout. To stem the torrent of a woman's will ? For if she...And if she won't, she won't, so there's an end on't. On a Pillar at Canterbury (See Notes If Queries, III. 285). The man's a fool who tries by force or... | |
 | Stanley Wood - 1895 - 172 Seiten
...broad, general way and now I'm going to examine into the minute but necessary details." "If a woman will she will, You may depend on't, And if she won't she won't, Why that's the end on't." chanted my unfeeling parent, as he lighted a cigar and started off down town... | |
 | Louis Klopsch - 1896 - 382 Seiten
...self-reliance), and these are their ill-health and their extravagant devotion to dress. — ABBA Goou> WOOLSON. Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem...you may depend on't, And if she won't, she won't, and there's an end on't. I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 Seiten
...mine were An Almanack, to change her every year. .</. BBNJ. FRANKLIN — Poor Richard, Dec., 1737. Rape of the Lock. Canto IV. L. 122. Divine Tobacco....Faerie Quecne. Bk. III. Canto V. St. 32. Yes, social fr on' t; And if she won't, she won't; so there's an end on't. h. From the Pillar Erected on the Mount... | |
 | Frederick Marryat - 1896 - 464 Seiten
...her way, there's no stopping her : you know the old verse — "A man's a fool who strives by force or skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will ; For...will, you may depend on't, And if she won't, she won't — and there's an end on't. " Now let's go up into my room, and we will chat while I wash my hands."... | |
 | Philip Hugh Dalbiac - 1897 - 526 Seiten
...Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye ? " SHAKESPEARE. Love's Labour Lost (Biron), Act IV., Sc. III. " Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem...you may depend on't, And if she won't, she won't, and there's an end on't." ANONYMOUS. " Where is the heart that has not bow'd A slave, eternal Love,... | |
 | 1897 - 172 Seiten
...broad, general way and now I'm going to examine into the minute but necessary details." "If a woman will she will, You may depend on't, And if she won't she won't, Why that's the end on't." chanted my unfeeling parent, as he lighted a cigar and started off down town... | |
 | George John Whyte-Melville - 1899 - 412 Seiten
...of proverbs, contradicting each other, were summoned to strengthen opposite sides of the argument. " If she will, she will, you may depend on't ; and if she won't, she -won't, and there's an end on't ! " seemed a doggerel replete with wisdom, till he reflected that " constant... | |
 | George John Whyte-Melville - 1899 - 418 Seiten
...of proverbs, contradicting each other, were summoned to strengthen opposite sides of the argument. " If she will, she will, you may depend on't ; and if she won't, she won't, and there's an end on't ! " seemed a doggerel replete with wisdom, till he reflected that " constant... | |
 | Ouida - 1900 - 412 Seiten
...and I 'ma great fool for having ever set my heart on any plan that wanted a woman's concurrence— For if she will she will, you may depend on't, And if she won't she won't, and there 's an end on 't." Wherewith the General stuck his wide-awake on fiercely, and darted out... | |
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