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Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
10 quotes
“This to the crown and blessing of my life, The much lov’d husband of a happy wife; To him whose constant passion found the art To win a stubborn and ungratefull heart, And to the world by tend’rest proof discovers, They err, who say that husbands can’t be lovers.”
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1660–1720) first seen 1685 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Letter to Daphnis" (2 April 1685)
“Judge not my passion by my want of skill: Many love well, though they express it ill; And I your censure cou’d with pleasure bear, Wou’d you but soon returne, and speake it here.”
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1660–1720) first seen 1685 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Letter to Daphnis" (2 April 1685); with the last couplet cp. Ovid, Heroides, I, 2
“Did I my lines intend for publick view, How many censures wou’d their faults persue; ... True judges might condemn their want of witt, And all might say, they’re by a Woman writt.”
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1660–1720) first seen 1713 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Introduction" (1713)
“Alas! a woman that attempts the pen, Such an intruder on the rights of men, Such a presumptuous Creature, is esteem’d, The fault, can by no vertue be redeem’d.”
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1660–1720) first seen 1713 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Introduction" (1713)
“They tell us we mistake our sex and way; Good breeding, fassion, dancing, dressing, play Are the accomplishments we shou’d desire; To write, or read, or think, or to enquire Wou’d cloud our beauty and exaust our time, And interrupt the Conquests of our prime; Whilst the dull mannage of a servile house Is held by some our outmost art and use.”
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1660–1720) first seen 1713 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Introduction" (1713)
“How are we fal’n, fal’n by mistaken rules, And Education’s more than Nature’s fools.”
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1660–1720) first seen 1713 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Introduction" (1713)
“The King, the Priest, the Prophet, all are Thine, Nor wou’d ev’n God (in Flesh) thy Stroke decline.”
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1660–1720) first seen 1713 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Death" (1713)
“Cou’d our First Father, at his toilsome Plough, Thorns in his Path, and Labour on his Brow, Cloath’d only in a rude, unpolish’d Skin, Cou’d he a vain Fantastick Nymph have seen, In all her Airs, in all her antick Graces, Her various Fashions, and more various Faces; How had it pos’d that Skill, which late assign’d Just Appellations to Each several Kind! A right idea of the Sight to frame; T’have guest from what New Element she came; T’have hit the wav’ring Form, and giv’n this Thing a Name.”
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1660–1720) first seen 1713 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Adam Pos'd" (1713)
“Love, thou art best of Human Joys, Our chiefest Happiness below; All other Pleasures are but Toys, Musick without Thee is but Noise, And Beauty but an empty show.Heav’n, who knew best what Man wou’d move, And raise his Thoughts above the Brute; Said, Let him Be, and Let him Love; That must alone his Soul improve, Howe’er Philosophers dispute.”
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1660–1720) first seen 1713 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Song" (1713)
“Free as Nature’s first intention Was to make us, I’ll be found, Nor by subtle Man’s invention Yeild to be in Fetters bound By one that walks a freer round.Mariage does but slightly tye Men Whil’st close Pris’ners we remain, They the larger Slaves of Hymen Still are begging Love again At the full length of all their chain.”
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea (1660–1720) first seen 1713 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Unequal Fetters" (1713)