...women, but not men, make love relationships into the overriding purpose of their lives. Lord Byron: "Man's love is of man's life a thing apart; Tis woman's whole existence." Balzac: "Among the firstrate, man's life is fame, woman's life is love." One might argue in response...

...out the window and resumes her writing. It seems we have made little progress from Byron's assertion, "Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, / 'Tis woman's whole existence." 3 ' 1 In fact, Howard Fast's play reminds me of an eighteenthcentury poet's "Advice to a Lady" included...

...acquaintance, and get the mysterious meeting in the grave-yard solved. CHAPTER XXVIII THE HAPPY MEETING "Man's love is of man's life, a thing apart; Tis woman's whole existence." — Byron.' The clock on a neighbouring church had scarcely ceased striking three, when the servant...

...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...

...this, more sure, much chaster than the other. Ph. Fletcher, The Purple Island (1633). Love. ".Jfan's love is of man's life a thing apart ; 'tis woman's whole existence." —Byron, Don Juan, i. 194 (1819). Love. 'Tis better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved...

...Byron (1788-1824), English Romangilius Maro, Latin poet and author tic poet. "Man's love," he wrote, "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,...

...before her concerning the inhibited state of women in society, from the Romantic misogyny of Byron - 'man's love is of man's life a thing apart, / 'Tis woman's whole existence' - to Mary Hays's lament in Emma Courtney that social constraint results in debilitating romantic love...

...echoing More but soon after the publication of Persuasion, Byron's sentiments reiterate Anne's feelings: Man's love is of man's life, a thing apart, Tis woman's whole existence. ("Don Juan" c. I st. 194) being less exposed to be seductions of extraneous beauty, and will win the...

...Austen's compliment to his "first-rate" poetry (100) when the deserted Julia writes in Don Juan (1819), 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,...

...physiology and poetry— the role of hormones in menstruation, pregnancy, and menopause and Byron's couplet "Man's love is of man's life a thing apart / Tis woman's whole existence"— were cited as evidence for the assertion that "women's health and happiness center around her sexual...