 | Ashley Horace Thorndike - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1928 - 504 pages
...when Brother Adam lost his rib. [Laughter.] Lord Lyttleton gave our sisters good advice, as follows : Seek to be good, but aim not to be great, A woman's noblest station is Retreat, Her fairest virtues fly from public sight, Domestic worth that shuns too... | |
 | Locomotive engineers - 1876 - 590 pages
...and hear less about "woman's rights." To my strong-minded sisters, let me use the words of another: "Seek to be good, but aim not to be great ; A woman's noblest station Is retreat; Her fairest virtues fly from public sight ; Domestic worth, that shuns... | |
 | Irene Howard - Biography & Autobiography - 1992 - 364 pages
...franchise than with it. I will conclude for the present with a quotation for the women's consideration ... 'Seek to be good, but aim not to be great. A woman's noblest station is retreat, Her fairest virtues fly from public sight, Domestic worth that shuns too... | |
 | David Baker - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 400 pages
...epigram in response to Lord Lyttelton's "Advice to a Lady," an effort notorious for such gems as (51-52): Seek to be good, but aim not to be great; A woman's noblest station is retreat. It seems no accident, that is, that Montagu's neatly caustic rejoinder,... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...Praise him! Praise him! Widely as his mercy flows. LYTTELTON George 1709-1773 6671 'Advice to a Lady" <A<u>v>w> =k> ; ; = 5 ;C8 9 ;b6 : : > :[; =w*x* :.5 noblest station is retreat. McALPINELord 1942 6672 The party needs a good scrub with a hard brush.... | |
 | Lynda M. Thompson - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 266 pages
...character at all was in itself dubious. In his poem Advice to a Lady (1731) Lord Lyttelton counsels: 'Seek to be good, but aim not to be great: / A woman's noblest station is retreat: / Her fairest virtues fly from public sight, / Domestic worth, that shuns... | |
 | English literature - 1925 - 706 pages
...question to the century of Pope and Swift, of Fielding and Smollett. But in a moment we come to this : Seek to be good, but aim not to be great : A woman's noblest station is retreat. II It was as inevitable that Lyttelton should enter into political life... | |
 | Texas Bar Association - Bar associations - 1904 - 272 pages
...the Union are vested in the judiciary." — De Tocqueville. "Women at the Bar," Hon. John M. Duncan. "Seek to be good, but aim not to be great, A woman's noblest station is Retreat." — Lord Lytton. "HOME, SWEEP HOME." "So comes the reckoning when the... | |
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Seek to be good, but aim not to be great: A woman's noblest station is retreat; Her fairest virtues fly from public sight, Domestic worth, that shuns too strong a light. 
