 Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will ? For if she will, she will, you may depend on't. And if she won't, she won't; so there's an end on't.  Notes and Queries - Page 3001864Full view - About this book
 | W J Morgan - 1874 - 750 lehte
...— The man's a fool who thinks by force or skill, To stem the torrent of a woman's will ; For if sho will, she will, you may depend on't, And if she wont, she wont, so there's an end on't. More slanderous perhaps than any of the foregoing opinions on women is the following, from " The Temptations... | |
 | Emily Sarah Holt - 1873 - 414 lehte
...around her a conviction that remonstrance with her was worse than useless. So she was let alone. " ' If she will, she will, you may depend on't ; And if she won't, she won't, and there's an end on't,' " quoted Mr. Hamilton, in a tone which was half sorrowful and half jesting.... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 lehte
...from the pillar erected on the mount in the Dane John Field, Canterbury : — Examiner, May 31, 1829. Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem...woman's will ? For if she will, she will, you may depend on 't ; And if she won't, she won't ; so there 's an end on 't. EDWARD YOUNG. 1684-1765. NIGHT THOUGHTS.... | |
 | Proverbial folk-lore - 1874 - 176 lehte
...opinion's drift still more decidedly in the same direction ; That man's a fool, who thinks by force or skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will ; For...will! You may depend on't! And if she won't, she won't ! And there's an end on't ! Three things are untameable, Idiots, Women and the salt Sea. Only in one... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 lehte
...from the pillar erected on the mount in the Dane John Field, Canterbury: — Examiner, May 31, 1829. Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem...woman's will ? For if she will, she will, you may depend on 't ; And if she won't, she won't ; so there 's an end on ' ! . EDWARD YOUNG. 1684-1765. NIGHT THOUGHTS.... | |
 | Alan Benjamin Cheales - 1875 - 188 lehte
...influence, and they take enormous liberties Beresford Hope. The man's a fool, who thinks by force or skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will ; For...You may depend on't ! And if she won't, she won't ! And there's an end on't ! Three things are untameable, Idiots, Women and the salt Sea. Only in one... | |
 | 1876 - 396 lehte
...said that we were to decide the question ; and he did say that. But should I get her ' nay ' — " Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem...woman's will ? For if she will, she will, you may depend on 't ; But if she won't, she won't, and there's an end on 't." " But 1 rather think she will; I'm... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 334 lehte
...should be by-and-by ; Or any other reason why. WOMAN'S WILL. THE man's a fool who thinks by force of skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will ; For...you may depend on't, And if she won't, she won't, and there's an end on'tl NUMBER NINE. THERE are nine Muses to a poet ; nine tailors to a man ; nine... | |
 | Marie J. Hyde - 1876 - 400 lehte
...halflaughing, " it seems that I do not possess ' the strength or skill To stem the torrent of a woman's mil ; For if she will, she will, you may depend on't, And if she won't, she won't, and there's an end on't ! ' But don't suppose, you feminine Don Quixote, that I will consent to your... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 386 lehte
...should be by-and-by j Or any other reason why. WOMAN'S WILL. THE man's a fool who thinks by force of skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will ; For if she will, she w ill, you may depend on't, And if she won't, she won't, and there's an end on't. ! NUMBER NINE. THERE... | |
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