Characteristics of Women: Moral, Poetical, and HistoricalWiley, 1850 - 340 oldal |
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xv. oldal
... direct contradiction to the mild and serious spirit of Christianity ; I fear it because we find that in every state of society in which it has prevailed as a fashion , and has given the tone to the manners and literature , INTRODUCTION .
... direct contradiction to the mild and serious spirit of Christianity ; I fear it because we find that in every state of society in which it has prevailed as a fashion , and has given the tone to the manners and literature , INTRODUCTION .
xvi. oldal
... manners and literature , it marked the moral degradation and approaching destruction of that society ; and I despise it , because it is the usual resource of the shallow and the base mind , and , when wielded by the strongest hand with ...
... manners and literature , it marked the moral degradation and approaching destruction of that society ; and I despise it , because it is the usual resource of the shallow and the base mind , and , when wielded by the strongest hand with ...
xx. oldal
... manner . We can take leisure to examine , to analyze , to correct our own impressions , to watch the rise and progress of various passions - we can hate , love , approve , condemn , without offence to others , without pain to ourselves ...
... manner . We can take leisure to examine , to analyze , to correct our own impressions , to watch the rise and progress of various passions - we can hate , love , approve , condemn , without offence to others , without pain to ourselves ...
xxvii. oldal
... manner , is the result of vulgarity of character ; it is grossness , hardness , or affectation . - If you would see how Shakspeare has discriminated , not only different degrees , but different kinds of plebeian vulgarity in woman , you ...
... manner , is the result of vulgarity of character ; it is grossness , hardness , or affectation . - If you would see how Shakspeare has discriminated , not only different degrees , but different kinds of plebeian vulgarity in woman , you ...
xxviii. oldal
... manner , the censorious , hypocritical , verbal scrupulosity , which is carried so far in this " picked age " of ... manners previous to the revolution - that " décence , " which Horace Walpole so admired , * veiling the moral ...
... manner , the censorious , hypocritical , verbal scrupulosity , which is carried so far in this " picked age " of ... manners previous to the revolution - that " décence , " which Horace Walpole so admired , * veiling the moral ...
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113. oldal - 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.
325. oldal - 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
326. oldal - 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.
278. oldal - 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.
326. oldal - 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.
100. oldal - 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.
74. oldal - 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.
98. oldal - 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?
xv. oldal - 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.
71. oldal - 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.