 | John Frederick Schroeder - Biography & Autobiography - 1849 - 492 pages
...rainbow, sprung from the baptismal well, Surronnded her, and beamed abont her brow." THE BAPTIKTERV. " Seek to be good, but aim not to be great ; A woman's nohlest station is retreat : Her fairest virtues fly from public sight ; Domestic worth, that shuns... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...betrays: Hence, by fond dreams of fancied power amus'd, When most ye tyrannize you're most abus'd. 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 poetry - 1856 - 754 pages
...betrays : Hence, by fond dreams of fancied power amus'd, When most ye tyrannize you're most abus'd. 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... | |
 | Quotations - 1861 - 356 pages
...SHAKSPEARE. For contemplation ho, and valor formed, For softness she, and sweet attract,ve grace. MiLTON. 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... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...fraud or tort, But did in safe security abide. SPENSER.— Fairy Queen, Book IV. Canto 8. WOMAN. — Seek to be good, but aim not to be great : A woman's noblest station is retreat. LYTTLETON. — Advice to a Lady, 1781. For nothing lovelier can be found... | |
 | Women - 1865 - 380 pages
...the beggar that's got a good woman, With more than the world he is blest. Cowper. Her Domestic Worth. 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... | |
 | Henry Southgate - Fore-edge painting - 1865 - 398 pages
...the beggar that's got a good woman, With more than the world he is blest. Cowper. Her Domestic Worth. 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... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations - 1867 - 752 pages
...care your gentle breasts should move, — Th' important business of your life is love- Lord Lydclion. Seek to be good, but aim not to be great, A woman's noblest station is retreat ; Her fairest virtues fly from public sight. Lord Lyttelturh WOMAlf, WOMEN—... | |
 | John T. Watson - Quotations - 1869 - 524 pages
...hearts, In spite of all the virtue we can boast, The woman that deliberates is lost. AMIISON'S Cato. 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... | |
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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. 
