 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
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer - 1905 - 282 Seiten
...proverbial rhyme, we are told : — " The 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 ; " which reminds us of what Terence wrote : " I know what a woman's temper... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer - 1905 - 278 Seiten
...adage, " Whatever a woman will she can," reminding us of the rhyme on a pillar at Canterbury : — " Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will r 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."... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer - 1906 - 278 Seiten
...adage, " Whatever a woman will she can," reminding us of the rhyme on a pillar at Canterbury : — " Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will r 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."... | |
 | 1906 - 810 Seiten
...letters mean- SCOTT, The Truth of Woman, st, I 2 Where is the man who has the power and skill To stern 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, ANONYMOUs, Lines on a pillar in Dane John... | |
 | Lizzie Allen Harker - 1908 - 294 Seiten
...burthensome, and equally bears all that is unequal." CHAPTER XVII MR. WYCHERLY GOES INTO SOCIETY " Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will ?" WHILE Mr. Gloag was away upon his holiday a strange minister and his wife came to look after the... | |
 | Lizzie Allen Harker - 1908 - 344 Seiten
...is burthensome and equally bears all that is unequal." CHAPTER XVII MB. WYCHERLY GOES INTO SOCIETY Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will? WHILE Mr. Gloag was away upon his holiday a strange minister and his wife came to look after the congregation... | |
 | 1909 - 448 Seiten
...so-called sterner sex, and somewhat like policemen, with whom we are told it is unwise to argue : — Where is the man who has the power and skill, To stem...And if she wont, she wont; so there's an end on't. At the same time, I am aware that many travellers largely receive their orders from female buyers,... | |
 | 1909 - 432 Seiten
...Dane John Field, Canterbury, were inscribed, according to the "Examiner" (May 31. 1829) the linee— Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem...And if she won't, she wont; so there's an end on't. Similar citntions a-nncer in '' Bartlott'e Familier Quotations."— Ed. "N. and Q."] 314. " ABTLESS... | |
 | Robert Shackleton, Elizabeth Shackleton - 1910 - 414 Seiten
...time, while a sister, of the same brood, may simply not lay at all. Being feminine, it is a matter of " 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" — except that one must be ready to go further and promptly make a salad-end of the offender. But... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - 1911 - 784 Seiten
...purity, and truth, Eternal joy, and everlasting love. 5784 Otwag : Venice Preserved. Act i. Sc. 1. 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. 6785 Copied from the pillar erected on the mount in the Dane John Field, Canterbury. {Examiner; May... | |
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