Woman: as she is, and as she should be1835 |
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... look to be walked over by society in its eagerness . There is no swimming against the tide of custom without a few rough blows from its waves ! Yet , though we have to assail prejudice ( and prejudice too of all others the most ...
... look to be walked over by society in its eagerness . There is no swimming against the tide of custom without a few rough blows from its waves ! Yet , though we have to assail prejudice ( and prejudice too of all others the most ...
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... look suf- ficing to persuade , and a sigh to convince him : this is man's position ! " All they shall need , is to protest and swear , Breathe a soft sigh , and drop a tender tear . " POPE . Beauty has but to lecture through her tears ...
... look suf- ficing to persuade , and a sigh to convince him : this is man's position ! " All they shall need , is to protest and swear , Breathe a soft sigh , and drop a tender tear . " POPE . Beauty has but to lecture through her tears ...
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... look into the heart ; and where women are concerned , the heart is more especially an enigma . Thus much , however , may safely be con- cluded : were women really strong , the contact or the occasional superiority might alarm pride ...
... look into the heart ; and where women are concerned , the heart is more especially an enigma . Thus much , however , may safely be con- cluded : were women really strong , the contact or the occasional superiority might alarm pride ...
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... look down with contempt upon the sex at large -- what will be said to this instance of feeling ? Wherever women are concerned , it is too common to run into extremes . Doubtless the worse ,. 18 UNIVERSAL CONDITION OF WOMEN .
... look down with contempt upon the sex at large -- what will be said to this instance of feeling ? Wherever women are concerned , it is too common to run into extremes . Doubtless the worse ,. 18 UNIVERSAL CONDITION OF WOMEN .
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... looks back , arose " amidst the yells and violence of women * . " Some Thais has ever been found in bustling times ready to lead the way : - " Dux femina facti . " - Rousseau asserts , that " all the great revolutions were owing to ...
... looks back , arose " amidst the yells and violence of women * . " Some Thais has ever been found in bustling times ready to lead the way : - " Dux femina facti . " - Rousseau asserts , that " all the great revolutions were owing to ...
Términos y frases comunes
Adam Smith admiration Æneid affections amusement Aristotle beauty become better Blackwood's Magazine Bulwer's England caprice CHAPTER character charm Cicero consequence contempt control-I crea creature custom dance Dido dress effeminacy elegance especially ÉTan Euripides evil excellence eyes fair fancy fashion favour feel femmes fiction folly fool frivolity gallantry genius give glish habits happiness heart honour human nature humours idle Iliad imagination incubus indulgence influence intellectual Italian language labourer ladies lence less live look Lord Byron Madame de Staël manners marriage married mischief mistress mode Montesquieu moral ness never NOTES.-CHAPTER observed once passion peculiar perhaps persons pleasure polite possession pretend pride prime end principle racter reader reason refinement ridiculous says scarcely sense sentiment sinti smile social society spetse sphere taste things tion true truth ture vanity virtue vulgar whole wife woman women word writers
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Página 62 - I am ashamed that women are so simple To offer war where they should kneel for peace, Or seek for rule, supremacy and sway, When they are bound to serve, love and obey.
Página 203 - Unargued I obey : so God ordains ; God is thy law, thou mine : to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise.
Página 251 - With shining ringlets the smooth ivory neck. Love in these labyrinths his slaves detains, And mighty hearts are held in slender chains. With hairy springes we the birds betray, Slight lines of hair surprise the finny prey, Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.
Página 37 - Childe Harold had a mother - not forgot, Though parting from that mother he did shun; A sister whom he loved, but saw her not Before his weary pilgrimage begun: If friends he had, he bade adieu to none.
Página 71 - There is no point of the compass to which they cannot turn, and by which they are not turned; and by one as well as another; for motion not method is their occupation. To know this, and yet continue to be in love, is to be made wise from the dictates of reason, and yet persevere...
Página 259 - I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chapfallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. Hor. What's that, my lord? Ham. Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i
Página 137 - Elles tireront aussi diverses commoditez de l'histoire. En la philosophie, de la part qui sert à la vie, elles prendront les discours qui les dressent à juger de nos humeurs et conditions, à se deffendre de nos trahisons, à...
Página 208 - A youth and maiden meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of each other. Such," says Rasselas, "is the common process of marriage.
Página 4 - Among men, you see the ninety-and-nine, toiling and scraping together a heap of superfluities for one (and this one too, oftentimes the feeblest and worst...
Página 111 - English stage ; for there is no question but our great grand-children will be very curious to know the reason why their forefathers used to sit together like an audience of foreigners in their own country, and to hear whole plays acted before them in a tongue which they did not understand.