...England as to require a generic name. The description, however, has been touched by one of our poets : ' Julia's a manager : she's born for rule, And knows...Mrs. Beaumont was a girl of sixteen I remember her manreuvring to gain a hus* It is to be regretted that a word, used in the days of Charles II. and still...

...England as to require a generic name. The description, however, has been touched by one of our poets : ' Julia's a manager : she's born for rule, And knows...stratagem.' Even from the time when Mrs. Beaumont was a girl * It is to be regretted that a word, used in the days of Charles II. and still intelligible in our...

...who would die for the man she loved a thousand times over, cheat him ten times a day about straws! At her own breakfast she'll project a scheme, Nor take her tea without a stratagem! her charming tale of" Helen ;" in Mrs. Opie's" White Lies;" but to these and other excellent and well-intentioned...

...would die for the man she loved a thousand times over, cheat him ten times a day about straws ! At her own breakfast shell project a scheme, Nor take her tea without a stratagem I This failing in our sex has been admirably treated by some writers in our own country, as in Miss...

...dictate, or convey. But if depriv'd of such important cares, Her wisdom condescends to less affairs. For her own breakfast she'll project a scheme, Nor take her tea without a stratagem ; Presides o'er trifles with a serious face ; Important by the virtue of grimace. Ladies supreme among...

...moment breaks ; Then wrought into the soul let virtues shine ; The ground eternal, as the work divine. Julia's a manager; she's born for rule; And knows her wiser husband is a fool ; Assemblies holds, and spins the subtle thread That guides the lover to his fair one's bed : For difficult...

...her lover, And maidenly modesty fixes the chain. Burn*. 43 Julia's a manager, she's born for rule : For her own breakfast she'll project a scheme, Nor take her tea without a stratagem. Anon. 44 Gertrude is to you no unregarded name. Campbell. 45 One month, three days, and half-an-hour,...

...again, And thrice he routed all his foes, and Thrice he slew the slain. Alexander's Feast. DRYDEN. For her own breakfast she'll project a scheme Nor take her tea without a stratagem. Low of Fame, sat. vi. YOUNG. From morn to noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve. Paradise Lost, book...

...England as to require a generic name. The description, however, has been touched by one of our poets : ' Julia's a manager : she's born for rule, And knows...girl of sixteen I remember her manoeuvring to gain a husband, and then * It is to be regretted that a word used in the days of Charles II., and still intelligible...

...in a moment ore; Then wrought into the soul let virtue shin The ground eternal, as the work divine. Julia's a manager, she's born for rule, And knows her wiser husband is a fool; Assemblies holds, and spins the subtle thr That guides the lover to his fair-one's bed For difficult...