POETIC REFERENCES TO WOMEN.

Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 68, 17 September 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)

POETIC REFERENCES TO WOMEN.

Shakspere : "There was never a fair woman but she mouths in a glass." Francis f : " A woman changes oft j who trusts her in the softest of the soft." N. P. Willis : " The sweetest thing 1 iv life is the unclouded welcome of a wife." Cervantes : "All women are good — good for nothing or good for something." George Eliot : —"A passionate woman's love is always over-shadowed by her fear." Heine : " Handsome women without religion are like flowers without perfume." Cervantes : " Between a woman's ' yes ' and ' no ' I wouldf not veuture ti stick a pin." Voltaire : " All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentimeut' of a woman." Beecher : " Women are a new race, re-created since the world received Christianity." Leopold Schefer : " But one thing on earth is better than the wife — that is the mother." Luther : " Earth has nothing more tender than a woman's heart when it is the abode of pity." Shakspere : " For where is any author in the world teaches such beauty aB a woman's eyeß ?" Michelet : '' Woman is the Sunday of man ; not his repose only, but his joy, the salt of his life." Margaret Fuller Oasolli : " Woman is born for love, and it is impossible to turn her from seeking it." Louis Dosnoyers : " A woman may be ugly, ill-shaped, wicked, ignorant, silly and stupid, but hardly ever ridiculous." Lord Lonsdale : "If the whole world were put iuto one scale and my mother into the other, the world would kick the beam." Malherbe : " There are only two beautiful things in the world — women and roses ; and only two sweet things — women and melons." Bulwer Lytton : "O, woman ! in ordinary cases so mere a mortal, how in the great aud rare events in life dost thou swell into the angels V Saville :— " Women have more strength in their looks than we hare in our laws ; aud more power by their tears than we have by our argumeutß." Emerson : " A beautiful woman is a practical poet ; taming her savage mate, ¦ planting teuderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches." Anna Cora Mo watt : " Misfortune sprinkles ashes on, the heart of the man ; but falls like dew on the head of the woman and brings forth germs of strength of which she herself has no conscious possession." Thackeray: "Almost all women will give a sympathising bearing to men who are in love. Be they ever so old, they grow young again in that conversation and renew their own early time. Meu are not quite so generous."