 | Heshmat Moayyad - 1994 - 258 pages
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 | Jill Campbell - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 362 pages
...of one sex's mimicry of the other. Boswell quotes Johnson as commenting on female Quaker preachers: "Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking...well; but you are surprized to find it done at all" (Life of Johnson, 327; entry for July 31, 1763). 61. In The Poetry of Pope's Dunciad, Sitter provides... | |
 | Frank Lentricchia, Thomas McLaughlin - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 498 pages
...declared women in turn too feminine for masculine pursuits; "'Sir,'" he famously addressed Boswell, " 'a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his...well; but you are surprized to find it done at all' " (Boswell, 327). Perhaps because upright dogs remain relatively rare while more and more women are... | |
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Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on. his hinder legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprized to find it done at all. 
