THE LADY’s MUSEUM.
DOWNLOAD AS I do not set out with great promises to the public of the wit, humour, and morality, which this pamphlet is to contain, […]
ISSUE 1
The TRIFLER. [NUMBER I.]
CAST your eyes upon paper, madam; there you may lock innocently, said a polite old gentleman of my acquaintance to me, one day, in the […]
OF THE STUDIES proper for WOMEN.
Translated from the French.
TO prohibit women entirely from learning is treating them with the same indignity that Mahomet did, who, to render them voluptuous, denied them souls; and […]
THE HISTORY OF HARRIOT AND SOPHIA
HARRIOT and Sophia were the daughters of a gentleman, who, having spent a good paternal inheritance before he was five and thirty, was reduced to […]
A SONG, in PHILANDER. A Dramatic Pastoral.
Set by Mr. OSWALD. […] Think what the hapless virgin proves, who loves in vain, yet […] fondly loves; While modesty and female pride, The […]
On reading a POEM written by a Lady of Quality.
I. AFRAID to be pleas’d, and with envy half fir’d, Still wishing to blame, while by force I admir’d, New beauties appearing as farther I […]
To DEATH. An irregular ODE.
I. OH death, thou gentle end of human pain, Why is thy stroke so long delay’d? Why to a wretch, who breathes but to complain, […]
THE HISTORY OF THE DUTCHESS of BEAUFORT.
IT has been asserted by the enemies of our sex, that it is the fear of shame which keeps many women virtuous. Had those detractors […]