Characteristics of Women: Moral, Poetical, and HistoricalWiley, 1850 - 340 páginas |
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... hands , the analysis of the character has been almost entirely re - written , as at first conceived , or rather restored to its original form . This little work , as it now stands , forms only part of a plan which the author hopes , if ...
... hands , the analysis of the character has been almost entirely re - written , as at first conceived , or rather restored to its original form . This little work , as it now stands , forms only part of a plan which the author hopes , if ...
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... 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 was the nobler birth , For you from man were made - man but of earth- The son of dust ...
... 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 was the nobler birth , For you from man were made - man but of earth- The son of dust ...
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... hand accusation against me , and not attend to my defence ? Well , I will be serious . MEDON . ALDA . Do so , and let us talk like reasonable beings . MEDON . Then tell me ( as a reasonable woman you will not be affronted with the ...
... hand accusation against me , and not attend to my defence ? Well , I will be serious . MEDON . ALDA . Do so , and let us talk like reasonable beings . MEDON . Then tell me ( as a reasonable woman you will not be affronted with the ...
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... hand with the purest intentions , an inefficient means of good . The spirit of satire , reversing the spirit of mercy which is twice blessed , seems to me twice accursed ; -evil in those who indulge it - evil to those who are the ...
... hand with the purest intentions , an inefficient means of good . The spirit of satire , reversing the spirit of mercy which is twice blessed , seems to me twice accursed ; -evil in those who indulge it - evil to those who are the ...
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... hand , his amiable women are touched with such exquisite simplicity - they have so little external pretension — and are so unlike the usual heroines of tragedy and romance , that they delight us more than all the nonsense of the beau ...
... hand , his amiable women are touched with such exquisite simplicity - they have so little external pretension — and are so unlike the usual heroines of tragedy and romance , that they delight us more than all the nonsense of the beau ...
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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.