 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1896 - 794 pages
...reluctant feet Where the brook and river meet, — Womanhood and childhood fleet. LONGFELLOW : Maidenhood. 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... | |
 | Godfrey Taubenhaus - 1900 - 120 pages
...committed the same sin. What he meant to say is what Lord Littleton expressed with the help of the muse "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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1902 - 860 pages
...'Tis ugliness in its most frightful form ; Fiercely it stands, defying gods and men, As fiery monsters he land ; But tyranny has fixed her empire there, To check their tender h noblest station is retreat ; Her fairest virtues fly from public sight, Domestic worth, that shuns... | |
 | George Paston - England - 1902 - 356 pages
...sustain. Of those who claim it more than half have none, And half of those who have it are undone. 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... | |
 | Emil Reich - History - 1908 - 400 pages
...nothing higher than exemption from blame." This coincides with Lord Lyttleton's "Advice to a Lady":— 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, English - 1911 - 784 pages
...v. Line 407. A shameless woman is the worst of men. 5799 Young : Love of Fame. Satire v. Line 454. Seek to be good, but aim not to be great, A woman's noblest station is retreat ; Her fairest virtues fly from public sight. 5800 Lord Lt)ltelton: Advice... | |
 | Thomas Smyth - Presbyterian Church - 1912 - 830 pages
...'charity, which conspire to elevate, refine and ennoble these, and to unite man to God and man to man. 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, English - 1913 - 264 pages
...Whether sunn'd in the tropics, or chill'd at the pole, If woman be there, there is happiness too. Moore. Seek to be good, but aim not to be great, A woman's noblest station is retreat; Her fairest virtues fly from public sight. A woman's rank Lies in the fullness... | |
 | Myra Reynolds - Literary Criticism - 1920 - 546 pages
...sustain : Of those who claim it more than half have none; And half of those who have it are undone. 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... | |
 | Myra Reynolds - Literary Criticism - 1920 - 542 pages
...sustain : Of those who claim it more than half have none; And half of those who have it are undone. 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. 
