Characteristics of Women: Moral, Poetical, and HistoricalWiley, 1850 - 340 Seiten |
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... virtues of her own sex . He is a parricide of his mother's name , And with an impious hand murders her fame , That wrongs the praise of women ; that dares write Libels on saints , or with foul ink requite The milk they lent us . Yours ...
... virtues of her own sex . He is a parricide of his mother's name , And with an impious hand murders her fame , That wrongs the praise of women ; that dares write Libels on saints , or with foul ink requite The milk they lent us . Yours ...
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... virtue , and happiness ; it turns life into a jest , and a very dull one too . It makes us indifferent to beauty , and incredulous of goodness ; it teaches us to consider self as the centre on which all actions turn , and INTRODUCTION ...
... virtue , and happiness ; it turns life into a jest , and a very dull one too . It makes us indifferent to beauty , and incredulous of goodness ; it teaches us to consider self as the centre on which all actions turn , and INTRODUCTION ...
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... virtue ; whose actions are inspired by vanity , not affection , and regulated by opinion , not by conscience : who are good while there is no temptation to be otherwise , and ready victims of the first soliciting to evil . In the case ...
... virtue ; whose actions are inspired by vanity , not affection , and regulated by opinion , not by conscience : who are good while there is no temptation to be otherwise , and ready victims of the first soliciting to evil . In the case ...
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... virtue , trifled with no just and generous principle . He can make us laugh at folly , and shudder at crime , yet still preserve our love for our fellow beings , and our reverence for ourselves . He has a lofty and a fearless trust in ...
... virtue , trifled with no just and generous principle . He can make us laugh at folly , and shudder at crime , yet still preserve our love for our fellow beings , and our reverence for ourselves . He has a lofty and a fearless trust in ...
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... ALDA . Wandering in the Elysian fields , I presume , with the romantic young gentlemen , who are too generous , too zealous in defence An Oriental proverb . of innocence , too enthusiastic in their admiration of virtue XXX INTRODUCTION .
... ALDA . Wandering in the Elysian fields , I presume , with the romantic young gentlemen , who are too generous , too zealous in defence An Oriental proverb . of innocence , too enthusiastic in their admiration of virtue XXX INTRODUCTION .
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Seite 113 - The chariest maid is prodigal enough, If she unmask her beauty to the moon: Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes: The canker galls the infants of the spring, Too oft before their buttons be disclos'd; And in the morn and liquid dew of youth Contagious blastments are most imminent.
Seite 325 - As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat i
Seite 326 - 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 278 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form ; Then have I reason to be fond of grief.
Seite 326 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me; I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Seite 100 - Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean: so, o'er that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race: this is an art Which does mend nature, — change it rather; but The art itself is nature.
Seite 74 - tis pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other; To mutter and mock a broken charm, To dally with wrong that does no harm. Perhaps 'tis tender too and pretty At each wild word to feel within A sweet recoil of love and pity.
Seite 98 - Even here undone ! I was not much afeard : for once, or twice, I was about to speak ; and tell him plainly, The selfsame sun, that shines upon his court, Hides not his visage from our cottage, but Looks on alike.— Will 't please you, sir, be gone?
Seite xv - Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God afraid of me: Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.
Seite 71 - Well, do not swear: although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract to-night : It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden ; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be, Ere one can say — It lightens.