Characteristics of Women, Moral, Poetical, and HistoricalSaunders and Otley, 1837 - 382 Seiten |
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... women : " to the good observe ! for they only can afford to be merciful . And let me add thus much : Could we but ... women . " Men make it a general accusation against us , as a sex , that we are ill - natured , unfair , pitiless , in ...
... women : " to the good observe ! for they only can afford to be merciful . And let me add thus much : Could we but ... women . " Men make it a general accusation against us , as a sex , that we are ill - natured , unfair , pitiless , in ...
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Mrs. Jameson (Anna). then , I present to woman a little elementary manual , or introduction to the knowledge of woman ; in which they may learn to understand better their own nature ; to judge more gently , more truly of each other . And ...
Mrs. Jameson (Anna). then , I present to woman a little elementary manual , or introduction to the knowledge of woman ; in which they may learn to understand better their own nature ; to judge more gently , more truly of each other . And ...
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... women - nonsense ! why should you sus- pect me of such folly ? —it is quite out of date . Why should there be competition or comparison ? MEDON . Both are ill judged and odious ; but did you ever meet with a woman of the world , who did ...
... women - nonsense ! why should you sus- pect me of such folly ? —it is quite out of date . Why should there be competition or comparison ? MEDON . Both are ill judged and odious ; but did you ever meet with a woman of the world , who did ...
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... woman's sentiment . MEDON . True - it was ; and I have pleasure in reminding you that a female satirist by profession is yet an anomaly in the history of our ... women we meet in society ? ALDA . Not to our nature ; but to a INTRODUCTION . 9.
... woman's sentiment . MEDON . True - it was ; and I have pleasure in reminding you that a female satirist by profession is yet an anomaly in the history of our ... women we meet in society ? ALDA . Not to our nature ; but to a INTRODUCTION . 9.
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... Women , generally speaking , are by na- ture too much subjected to suffering in many forms- have too much of fancy and sensibility , and too much of that faculty which some philosophers call veneration , to be naturally satirical . I ...
... Women , generally speaking , are by na- ture too much subjected to suffering in many forms- have too much of fancy and sensibility , and too much of that faculty which some philosophers call veneration , to be naturally satirical . I ...
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Seite 67 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Seite 366 - Like the poor cat i' the adage? Macb. Prithee, peace I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. Lady M. What beast was't then That made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; And, to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man.
Seite 344 - Must pity drop upon her. Verily, I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.
Seite 55 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Seite 364 - This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill ; cannot be good : — If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, • Against the use of nature...
Seite 139 - I'd have you do it ever : when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so ; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o...
Seite 238 - And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Methinks I should know you and know this man; Yet I am doubtful; for I am mainly ignorant What place this is, and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me; For, as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia.
Seite 142 - Say there be; Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean: so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes.
Seite 269 - tis most certain, Iras. Saucy lictors Will catch at us, like strumpets ; and scald rhymers Ballad us out o' tune : the quick comedians Extemporally will stage us, and present Our Alexandrian revels : Antony Shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall see Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness I
Seite 133 - It were all one, That I should love a bright particular star, And think to wed it, he is so above me: In his bright radiance and collateral light Must I be comforted, not in his sphere.