Characteristics of Women: Moral, Poetical, and HistoricalWiley, 1850 - 340 páginas |
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Página xxxi
... gently hinted to the few who are in danger of being misled by an excess of the generous impulses of fancy and feeling ; but need hardly , I think , be proclaimed by sound of trumpet amid the mocks of the world . No , no ; there are ...
... gently hinted to the few who are in danger of being misled by an excess of the generous impulses of fancy and feeling ; but need hardly , I think , be proclaimed by sound of trumpet amid the mocks of the world . No , no ; there are ...
Página xxxvi
... same play ; and even the affection of the wicked queen in Hamlet for the gentle Ophelia , which prove that Shakspeare thought- ( and when did he ever think other than the truth ? ) - that women have by nature xxxvi INTRODUCTION .
... same play ; and even the affection of the wicked queen in Hamlet for the gentle Ophelia , which prove that Shakspeare thought- ( and when did he ever think other than the truth ? ) - that women have by nature xxxvi INTRODUCTION .
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... gentle dew from heaven : " --but in vain ; for that blessed dew drops not more fruitless and unfelt on the parched sand of the desert , than do these heavenly words upon the ear of Shylock . She next attacks his avarice : Shylock ...
... gentle dew from heaven : " --but in vain ; for that blessed dew drops not more fruitless and unfelt on the parched sand of the desert , than do these heavenly words upon the ear of Shylock . She next attacks his avarice : Shylock ...
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... gentle , yet manly resignation - the deep pathos of his farewell , and the affectionate allusion to herself in his last address to Bassanio- Commend me to your honorable wife ; Say how I lov'd you , speak me fair in death , & c . are ...
... gentle , yet manly resignation - the deep pathos of his farewell , and the affectionate allusion to herself in his last address to Bassanio- Commend me to your honorable wife ; Say how I lov'd you , speak me fair in death , & c . are ...
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... gentle spirit Commits itself to yours to be directed , As from her lord , her governor , her king . Myself , and what is mine , to you and yours Is now converted . But now I was the lord Of this fair mansion , master of my servants ...
... gentle spirit Commits itself to yours to be directed , As from her lord , her governor , her king . Myself , and what is mine , to you and yours Is now converted . But now I was the lord Of this fair mansion , master of my servants ...
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admiration affection ALDA Antony Bassanio Beatrice beauty Benedick breath Bretagne Cæsar Camiola character charm CLEOPATRA coloring Constance Cordelia Coriolanus CYMBELINE daughter death delicacy delineation Desdemona dignity dramatic eloquence expression exquisite eyes fancy father fear feeling female feminine fond gentle grace grief Hamlet hath heart heaven Helena Hermione heroine honor horror husband Iachimo Iago imagination Imogen impression innocence intellect Isabella Juliet Katherine king Lady Macbeth Leontes lord lover madam Madame de Staël manner marriage MEDON mind Miranda moral mother nature never noble Octavia once Ophelia Othello passion pathos PAULINA Perdita perfect pity placed play poetical poetry POLONIUS Portia portrait Posthumus pride queen Romeo Romeo and Juliet Rosalind scene scorn sense sentiment Shakspeare Shakspeare's Shylock simplicity soft soul speak spirit story sweet sympathy temper tenderness thee Thekla things thou thought touch true truth Viola virtue VOLUMNIA whole wife Winter's Tale woman women words youth
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Página 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.
Página 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
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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?
Página 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.
Página 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.