 | William Stafford Finch - 1835 - 108 str.
...ease the smart, He lost his sight and she— her heart, W. KING. LINES ADDRESSED TO SOME LADIES. " Seek to be good, but aim not to be great ; " A Woman's noblest station is retreat — " To rougher man, ambition's task resign." LORD LYTTLETON. FORGIVE me,... | |
 | Author of The young man's own book - 1836 - 336 str.
...dishonesty a proof of parts : For you, the plainest is the wisest rule : A cunning woman is a knavish fool. 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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 362 str.
...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... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 str.
...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 str.
...'Tis ugliness in its most frightful form ; Fiercely it stands, defying gods and men, As fiery monsters rocks. Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man s noblest station is retreat ; Her fairest virtues fly from public sight, Domestic worth, that shuns... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 str.
...'Tis ugliness in its most frightful form ; Fiercely it stands, defying gods and men, As fiery monsters Star after star from heaven's high arch shall rush, Suns sink on suns, a noblest station is retreat ; Her fairest virtues fly from public sight, Domestic worth, that shuns... | |
 | 1847 - 540 str.
...hearts, In spite of all the virtue we can boast, The woman that deliberates is lost. ADDISON'S Calo. 7. 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... | |
 | 1847 - 526 str.
...hearts, In spite of all the virtue we can boast, The woman that deliberates is lost. ADDISON'S Cato. 7. 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 Frederick Schroeder - 1849 - 492 str.
...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 - 1852 - 438 str.
...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... | |
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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. 
