 | George Paston - 1909 - 420 страници
...about cabbages and turnips, and he was not unjustly compared to Young's Julia, of whom it was said: For her own breakfast she'll project a scheme, Nor take her tea without a stratagem. Julia was a woman, and Pope's upbringing was more like that a studious girl than of a boy. The result... | |
 | Henry Charles Shelley - 1914 - 360 страници
...plate." " Mira, endow'd with every charm to bless, Has no design, but on her husband's peace." i " Julia's a manager ; she's born for rule ; And knows her wiser husband is a fool." Some of the portraits are naturally the female replicas of the masculine subjects of the earlier poems,... | |
 | William Henry Irving - 1928 - 508 страници
..."Acquainted with the world, and quite well bred, Drusa receives her visitants in bed." and II, 120: "For her own breakfast she'll project a scheme, Nor take her tea without a strategem." Also Anon., Fashion, a Satire (Dodsley, 1765, III, 314): "With him the fair, enraptur'd... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1975 - 602 страници
...Oakley was long prominent in New York State politics. The quotation suggests Edward Young's couplet "For her own breakfast she'll project a scheme, / Nor take her tea without a stratagem," from The Love of Fame, Sat. vi, 1, 187. Mrs. Willard was probably Emma Hart Willard (17871870), founder... | |
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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. 
