The Bas Bleu (1786) [ People / Practices ]
… you'd swear her pride is To match the labours of ALCIDES; 'Tis true, in hyperbolic measure, She nobly calls her labours Pleasure; In this unlike ALCMENA's son, She never means they should be done; Her fancy of no limits dreams, No ne plus … CALPE and ABYLA, in vain Had nodded cross th' opposing main; A circumnavigator she On Ton's illimitable sea. We pass the pleasures vast and various. Of Routs, not social, but gregarious; Where high heroic self-denial Sustains her … must sink their learned labour, Nor with their ruins treat a neighbour? Range--study--think do all we can Colloquial pleasures are for man. Yet not from low desire to shine Does Genius toil in learning's mine; Not to indulge in idle …
Bluestockings | Women | Greece
Anthology