 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
 | W. V. Byars - 1901 - 616 Seiten
...brightness, purity, and truth, Bternal joy, and everlasting love. — Otuay: • Venice Preserved,* Act I. Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem...if she won't, she won't ; so there's an end on't.« For her own person, It beggared all description. Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite... | |
 | William Vincent Byars - 1901 - 610 Seiten
...brightness, purity, and truth. Eternal joy, and everlasting love. — Otway: • Venice Preserved* Act I. Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem...of a woman's will? For if she will, she will, you mar depend on't ; And if she won't, she won't ; so there's an end on't.* For her own person, It beggared... | |
 | John W. Emsley - 1901 - 544 Seiten
...worth a woman of gold. What a woman wills to do she can do. The man is a fool who thinks 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. Children suck their mother when young, and their rich father when they are... | |
 | Albert Flandreau Dean - 1901 - 274 Seiten
...that it cannot be harnessed with an agreement in restraint of itself. The Paradoxes of Fire Insurance "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." Fire insurance, with good show of reason, might be claimed to stand for the feminine principle in the... | |
 | William Vincent Byars - 1901 - 614 Seiten
...everlasting love. — Otway: • I 'nice Preserved,* Ad I. Where is the man who has the power and akill To stem the torrent of a woman's will ? For if she will, she will, you maj depend on't ; And if she won't, she won't ; so there's an end on't.* For her own person, It beggared... | |
 | 1901 - 318 Seiten
...Life is real and life is earnest. Louder, please ! Blessed are the meek. A confiding young creature. 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. At whose sight all other stars Hide their diminished heads. With wondrous... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 Seiten
...following lines are copied from the pillar erected on the mount in the Dane John Field, Canterbury : — Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem...woman's will? For if she will, she will, you may depend on 't ; And if she won't, she won't; so (here 's an end on 't. The Examiner, May 31, 1829. * He who... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1903 - 654 Seiten
...Who is the author of these lines ? That man's a fool who tries by force or skill To stem the current of a woman's will; 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. Yours truly, JRJ, Albuquerque, New Mexico. These lines seem to be the blending... | |
 | 1905 - 120 Seiten
...think he would have much to spare If he married a woman with nothing to wear? William Allen Butler. 75 Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem...And if she won't, she won't, so there's an end on't (These lines are copied from the pillar on the Dane, John Field, Canterbury, England.) Men dying, make... | |
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