The Female Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Best Writers, and Adapted to the Use of Young WomenBaldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1816 - 392 páginas |
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... least to have the music of a well modulated voice , regulated by a well informed taste . Many English ladies profess to want courage to recite , or even to read aloud a copy of verses in a social party ; nor can it be denied , that ...
... least to have the music of a well modulated voice , regulated by a well informed taste . Many English ladies profess to want courage to recite , or even to read aloud a copy of verses in a social party ; nor can it be denied , that ...
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... least acquaintance with human affairs , to see this odd phenomenon , a creature formed after such a manner , and placed in a situation apparently un- suitable to such various machinery ; must he not be strangely puzzled about the use of ...
... least acquaintance with human affairs , to see this odd phenomenon , a creature formed after such a manner , and placed in a situation apparently un- suitable to such various machinery ; must he not be strangely puzzled about the use of ...
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... least would make him demur awhile at so harsh a sen- tence . But if , while he is in this state of uncertainty , we suppose him to see the babe , after a few successful strug- gles , throwing off his fetters , breaking loose from his ...
... least would make him demur awhile at so harsh a sen- tence . But if , while he is in this state of uncertainty , we suppose him to see the babe , after a few successful strug- gles , throwing off his fetters , breaking loose from his ...
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... least less amiable women . But you may be dazzled by that admi- ration , which yet rejoices your hearts . When a girl ceases to blush , she has lost the most pow- erful charm of beauty . That extreme sensibility , which is . it ...
... least less amiable women . But you may be dazzled by that admi- ration , which yet rejoices your hearts . When a girl ceases to blush , she has lost the most pow- erful charm of beauty . That extreme sensibility , which is . it ...
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... least trifles , which tend to please or to oblige ; and , though it's foundation must be rooted in the heart , it can scarce be perfect without a complete knowledge of the world . In society , it is the medium that blends all different ...
... least trifles , which tend to please or to oblige ; and , though it's foundation must be rooted in the heart , it can scarce be perfect without a complete knowledge of the world . In society , it is the medium that blends all different ...
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The Female Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose and Verse Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) Visualização integral - 1824 |
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Página 282 - Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where, with her best nurse, contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i...
Página 4 - WHO can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
Página 313 - Love is merely a madness ; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip, as madmen do ; and the reason why they are not so punished and cured, is, that the lunacy is so ordinary, that the whippers are in lave too. Yet I profess curing it by counsel.
Página 252 - God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder then that health and virtue, gifts That can alone make sweet the bitter draught That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threaten'd in the fields and groves...
Página 72 - How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet, now dying all away, Now pealing loud again, and louder still, Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on ! With easy force it opens all the cells Where Mem'ry slept.
Página 272 - How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot Eternal sun-shine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd; Labour and rest, that equal periods keep; "Obedient slumbers that can wake and weep"; Desires compos'd, affections ever ev'n; Tears that delight, and sighs that waft to heav'n.
Página 80 - Yet, when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions and a will resign'd ; For love, which scarce collective man can fill; For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat. Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat.
Página 245 - One song employs all nations ; and all cry " Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us-! " The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy ; Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous Hosanna round.
Página 49 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Página 252 - Nor less composure waits upon the roar Of distant floods, or on the softer voice Of neighbouring fountain, or of rills that slip Through the cleft rock, and chiming as they fall Upon loose pebbles, lose themselves at length In matted grass, that with a livelier green Betrays the secret of their silent course.