WOMAN, WOMEN-continued. Join to a slender shape a syren's head, The dazzling of the sun, the moon's inconstancy; You'll make a perfect woman. H. Smith, Princess of Parma By our great author in the image form'd To be man's solace. Hon. William Herbert. The man, who sets his heart upon a woman, From air he takes his colours, holds his life- Varies from north to south-from heat to cold. Oh, woman! woman! thou should'st have few sins Of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author Of such a book of follies in a man, That it would need the tears of all the angels To blot the record out! Bulwer Lytton, Lady of Lyons, v. 1. Not for herself was woman first create, Hon. Mrs. Norton. Woman may err, woman may give her mind By patient kindness, by enduring truth, By love, supremest in adversity. C. Mackay, Praise of Women. Whene'er a woman vows to love you In fortune's spite; Makes protestations that would prove you Her soul's delight. Swears that no other love shall win her WOMAN-WOMEN. WOMAN, WOMEN-continued. O woman! woman! thou primitive seducer, 707 Mountford, Successful Strangers Men have many faults; poor women have but two: There's nothing good they say, and nothing right they do. Where is the man who has the power and skill Anonymous. 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. On a Pillar at Canterbury (See Notes & Queriés, 111. 285). 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. WOODMAN. *See N. & Q. 1. 247. Forth goes the woodman, leaving unconcern'd Shaggy, and lean, and shrew'd, with pointed ears, WOOING-see Courtship. Cowper, Task, v. 41. 'Tis an old lesson; Time approves it true, These are thy fruits, successful Passion! these! Not to be cur'd when love itself forgets to please. Woo the fair one when around Early birds are singing; When o'er all the fragrant ground Early flowers are springing; When the brookside, bank, and grove Byron, Ch. H. 11. 35. Shine with beauty, breathe of love, Woo the timid maiden. W. C. Bryant (Am.). The first two lines are from Sir Samuel Tuke's Play, "Adventures of Five Hours. WORDS-see Calumny, Eloquence, Heedlessness, Letter, Slander. Few words well couch'd do most content the wise. R. Greene. One doth not know How much an ill word may empoison liking. Sh. M. Ado, III. L. Windy attorneys to their client woes, Poor breathing orators of miseries, Let them have scope: though what they do impart Help nothing else, yet do they ease the heart. Sh. R. m. xv. 4 My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words, without thoughts, never to heaven go. Sh. Ham. 111.3. Words are words; I never yet did hear, That the bruis'd heart was pierced through the ear. Sh. Oth.1.3. Words are the soul's ambassadors, that go Sam. Daniel. And correspondence keep 'twixt all mankind. James Howell. Herrick, Hesp. 485. Apt words have power to 'suage The tumours of a troubled mind, Milton, Sam. Ag. 186. Words are but pictures, true or false design'd, Butler, Sat. 1. Roscommon, Art of Poetry. Men ever had, and ever will have, leave To coin new words well suited to the age. Words are like leaves, some wither every year, And every year a younger race succeeds. Ib. Art of Poetry. WORDS-WORLD. WORDS-continued. 709 Waller, to Mr. Creech Where do the words of Greece and Rome excel, Churchill, Rosciad, 201. Words are things; and a small drop of ink, They dropp'd, like heaven's serenest snow, Pedlars, and boats, and waggons! Oh ye shades Byron, D. J. Thos. Moore. Floats scum-like uppermost, and these Jack Cades, Of sense and song above your graves may hiss The Little Boatman,' and his Peter Bell,' Can sneer at him who drew 'Achitophel.' Byron, D. J.1.116. WORKS. If faith produce no works, I see Thus faith and works together grow, Why, then, the world's mine oyster, Hannah More. Sh. Mer. W. 11. 2. I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; Sh. M. of Ven. 1. 1. You have too much respect upon the world: Oh, what a world is this, when what is comely, Tu. i. 3. Sh. As Y. 1, II. 3. Thou seest, we are not all alone unhappy : Presents more woeful pageants than the scene This earthly world; where to do harm Is often laudable; to do good, sometimes How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Sh. As Y. L. IL. ? Sh. Macb. IV % Fie on't! oh, fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank, and gross in nature, The world contains Princes for arms, and counsellors for brains, Sh. Ham. 1. 2. Lawyers for tongues, divines for hearts, and more, By which remote and distant countries meet. Donne. Butler, Hud. 1. 2, 1. Buckingham. The world's a wood, in which all lose their way, Dryden, Palamon and Arcite, III. 897. What is this world ?-A term which men have got, To signify not one in ten knows what; A term, which with no more precision passes To point out herds of men than herds of asses; In common use no more it means, we find, Drydea. Than many fools in same opinions joined. Churchill, Ni. 353. What is this world? Thy school, O misery! Our only lesson is to learn to suffer, And he who knows not that, was born for nothing. Young, Revenge, 2. 1. Let not the cooings of the world allure thee; Which of her lovers ever found her true? Young, N. T.vIII.1872 |