Characteristics of Women: Moral, Poetical, and HistoricalWiley, 1850 - 340 páginas |
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Página xvii
... poor distempered wretches to straw and darkness , stripes and a strait waistcoat , they now send them to sunshine and green fields , to wander in gardens among birds and flowers , and soothe them witn soft music and kind flattering ...
... poor distempered wretches to straw and darkness , stripes and a strait waistcoat , they now send them to sunshine and green fields , to wander in gardens among birds and flowers , and soothe them witn soft music and kind flattering ...
Página xxxv
... poor , the miserable , the perverted - among those habitually exposed to all influences that harden and deprave . MEDON . I believe it - nay , I know it ; but how should you know it , or anything of the strange places of refuge which ...
... poor , the miserable , the perverted - among those habitually exposed to all influences that harden and deprave . MEDON . I believe it - nay , I know it ; but how should you know it , or anything of the strange places of refuge which ...
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... poor scruple ; nay , if the scale do turn But in the estimation of a hair , — Thou diest , and all thy goods are confiscate . But she afterwards recovers her propriety , and triumphs with a cooler scorn and a more self - possessed ...
... poor scruple ; nay , if the scale do turn But in the estimation of a hair , — Thou diest , and all thy goods are confiscate . But she afterwards recovers her propriety , and triumphs with a cooler scorn and a more self - possessed ...
Página 14
... had been churches , and poor men's cottages princes ' palaces . I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done , than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching . The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark , 14 PORTIA .
... had been churches , and poor men's cottages princes ' palaces . I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done , than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching . The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark , 14 PORTIA .
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... poor rude world Hath not her fellow . We should not , however , easily pardon her for cheating her father with so much indifference , but for the perception that Shylock values his daughter far beneath his wealth . I would my daughter ...
... poor rude world Hath not her fellow . We should not , however , easily pardon her for cheating her father with so much indifference , but for the perception that Shylock values his daughter far beneath his wealth . I would my daughter ...
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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.