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" Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence ; man may range The court, camp, church, the vessel, and the mart ; Sword, gown, gain, glory, offer in exchange Pride, fame, ambition, to fill up his heart, And few there are whom... "
The works of ... lord Byron - Page 104
by George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1821
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Nothing to Declare: A Memoir

Taki, Taki Theodoracopulos - 1994 - 244 pages
...marriage . . .' and so on. I prefer the same poet's simple truth about the difference between the sexes: 'Man's love is of man's life a thing apart,/ Tis woman's whole existence.' No, in conventional terms, I have not been the best husband. Which has nothing whatever to do with...
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Daughters of the Great Depression: Women, Work, and Fiction in the American ...

Laura Hapke - 1997 - 316 pages
...their allegiance to social protest, implicitly approved Lord Byron's famous assertion in Don Juan that "Man's love is of man's life a thing apart / 'Tis woman's whole existence." The former Young Communist League and sometime Socialist Murray Kempton explained that even politically...
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Who We are: Our Dignity as Human : a Neo-evangelical Theology

Paul King Jewett - 1996 - 508 pages
...sexuality in a way that the man is not. They have taken their text from Byron rather than the Bible: Man's love is of man's life a thing apart; Tis woman's whole existence. To cite a case in point, Helmut Thielicke argues that a woman reveals more of her essential personhood...
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Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917

Thomas Stearns Eliot - 1996 - 476 pages
...vii 8 5 : 'All dark and comfortless', (ii) (given TSE's context) Byron, Don Juan, I [cxciv] 1545—6: 'Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence;' The Little Passion: From "An Agony in the Garret" Donald Gallup suggests that this is to be dated 191...
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The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other ...

Anna Julia Cooper - 1998 - 374 pages
...picture, whether a thing of beauty or not, has faded from the canvas of to-day. "Man's love," he wrote, is of man's life a thing apart, Tis woman's whole...fill up his heart — And few there are whom these cannot estrange. 8. Reference to Grant Allen, author of Plain Words on the Woman Question, quoted on...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...still she strove, and much repented, And whispering 'I will ne'er consent' consented. 1974 Don yuan eft for you, not even suicide, but to be good. 1 1 199 Virginibus Pueris 1975 Don Juan Merely innocent flirtatlon. Not quite adultery, but adulteratlon. 1976 Don yuan Now hatred...
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Emotions in Social Life: Critical Themes and Contemporary Issues

Gillian Bendelow, Simon Johnson Williams - 1998 - 372 pages
...rules are buttressed by her beliefs concerning how important love should be. The poet Lord Byron wrote, 'Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'tis woman's whole existence.' Does love loom larger for our bride than it does for her groom? Or does she now try to make love a...
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The Millstone

Margaret Drabble - 1966 - 196 pages
...handy image, thesis-wise, caught my attention, and I noted it down. Lucky in work, unlucky in love. Love is of man's life a thing apart, 'tis woman's whole existence, as Byron mistakenly remarked. On the way home I called in at Unwin's and bought a bottle of gin. As...
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The Gendered Society

Michael S. Kimmel - 2000 - 334 pages
...different working world. GENDERED INTERACTIONS _C H_A PTER GENDERED INTIMACIES Friendship and Love "Man's love is of man's life a thing apart. Tis woman's whole existence." So wrote the legendary great British romantic poet George Gordon, Lord Byron. Presumably, this was...
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The Romantic Subject in Autobiography: Rousseau and Goethe

Eugene L. Stelzig - 2000 - 302 pages
...patriarchal world epitomized in the farewell letter of Byron's disgraced Donna Julia to her teenage lover: "Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, / Tis woman's whole existence" (Don Juan, Canto i, stanza 194). "THE NEW PARIS" If, unlike Augustine and Rousseau, Goethe does not...
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