"They Might Have Been Together Till the Last": An Essay on Marriage, and the Position of Women in EnglandK. Paul, Trench & Company, 1885 - 79 oldal |
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1. oldal
... common to social man , of restraining the feelings from unnecessary , or what would be deemed unseemly , expression . there is one sight which , as often as I see it , almost forces the tears from my eyes . It is no melancholy occasion ...
... common to social man , of restraining the feelings from unnecessary , or what would be deemed unseemly , expression . there is one sight which , as often as I see it , almost forces the tears from my eyes . It is no melancholy occasion ...
12. oldal
... common day . That is the popular belief as novels teach it , and the belief is but too surely true to the common experience . Take another item of literature , if so it may be called , namely , the numerous anecdotes and jokes which ...
... common day . That is the popular belief as novels teach it , and the belief is but too surely true to the common experience . Take another item of literature , if so it may be called , namely , the numerous anecdotes and jokes which ...
17. oldal
... common law maintains its doctrine as far as it possibly can . A plain opinion as to the wisdom of this law was once expressed by Mrs. Bumble . But the law is not only unwise , it is also unjust . To pre- tend that two persons are one ...
... common law maintains its doctrine as far as it possibly can . A plain opinion as to the wisdom of this law was once expressed by Mrs. Bumble . But the law is not only unwise , it is also unjust . To pre- tend that two persons are one ...
19. oldal
... common with the full - dress ceremony we see in our churches . And though the roll of the wedding march may for a moment sweep all nonsense out of our souls , yet the exigency of the occasion , the understanding that it is to be ...
... common with the full - dress ceremony we see in our churches . And though the roll of the wedding march may for a moment sweep all nonsense out of our souls , yet the exigency of the occasion , the understanding that it is to be ...
29. oldal
... common consent a possessive right of a kind not becoming a mature human being as the object of possession . We seem to use the possessive pronoun differently as applied to a husband and to a wife . say her lord and master . We say her ...
... common consent a possessive right of a kind not becoming a mature human being as the object of possession . We seem to use the possessive pronoun differently as applied to a husband and to a wife . say her lord and master . We say her ...
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25. oldal - Alas ! — how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love ! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied ; That stood the storm, when waves were rough, Yet in a sunny hour fall off, Like ships that have gone down at sea, When heaven was all tranquillity...
11. oldal - As the storms rock the ravens on high: Bright reason will mock thee, Like the sun from a wintry sky. From thy nest every rafter Will rot, and thine eagle home Leave thee naked to laughter, When leaves fall and cold winds come.
50. oldal - LADY. SWEET stream, that winds through yonder glade, Apt emblem of a virtuous maid — Silent and chaste she steals along, Far from the world's gay busy throng ; • With gentle yet prevailing force, Intent upon her destined course ; Graceful and useful all she does, Blessing and blest where'er she goes.
29. oldal - Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant nor his maidservant, nor his ox nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.
74. oldal - No man ever knew, or can know, what will be the ultimate result to himself, or to others, of any given line of conduct. But every man may know, and most of us do know, what is a just and unjust act.
11. oldal - December, Too happy, happy Brook, Thy bubblings ne'er remember Apollo's summer look ; But with a sweet forgetting They stay their crystal fretting, Never, never petting About the frozen time. Ah would 'twere so with many A gentle girl and boy ! But were there ever any Writhed not at passed joy ? To know the change and feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steal it — Was never said in rhyme.
9. oldal - Love did lichtly me. O waly waly, but love be bonny A little time while it is new; But when 'tis auld, it waxeth cauld And fades awa
46. oldal - Now I could multiply witness upon witness of this kind upon you if I had time. I would take Chaucer, and show you why he wrote a Legend of Good Women ; but no Legend of Good Men.
2. oldal - Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, "Tis woman's whole existence; man may range The court, camp, church, the vessel, and the mart; Sword, gown, gain, glory, offer in exchange Pride, fame, ambition, to fill up his heart, And few there are whom these cannot estrange; Men have all these resources, we but one, To love again, and be again undone.
73. oldal - An ante-nuptial settlement by the husband in favour of the wife is a necessary condition, and on his failure to make a settlement the law presumes one in accordance with the social position of the wife. A Moslem marriage is a civil act, needing no priest, requiring no ceremonial.