Characteristics of Women, Moral, Poetical, and HistoricalTicknor and Fields, 1865 - 467 páginas |
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... manners and literature , it marked the moral degradation and approaching destruction of that society ; and I despise it , because it is the usual resource of the shallow and the base mind , and , when wielded by the strongest hand with ...
... manners and literature , it marked the moral degradation and approaching destruction of that society ; and I despise it , because it is the usual resource of the shallow and the base mind , and , when wielded by the strongest hand with ...
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... manner . We can take leisure to examine , to analyze , to correct our own impressions , to watch the rise and progress of various passions - we can hate , love , approve , con- demn , without offence to others , without pain to ...
... manner . We can take leisure to examine , to analyze , to correct our own impressions , to watch the rise and progress of various passions - we can hate , love , approve , con- demn , without offence to others , without pain to ...
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... manner , is the result of vulgarity of character ; it is grossness , hardness , or affectation . - If you would see how Shakspeare has discriminated , not only different degrees , but different kinds of plebeian vulgarity in women , you ...
... manner , is the result of vulgarity of character ; it is grossness , hardness , or affectation . - If you would see how Shakspeare has discriminated , not only different degrees , but different kinds of plebeian vulgarity in women , you ...
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... the display of intellect is tinged with a coarseness of manner belonging to the age in which he wrote . To remark that the conversation and letters of highbred and virtuous women of that time were more bold 84 INTRODUCTION .
... the display of intellect is tinged with a coarseness of manner belonging to the age in which he wrote . To remark that the conversation and letters of highbred and virtuous women of that time were more bold 84 INTRODUCTION .
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... manner , the cen- sorious , hypocritical , verbal scrupulosity , which is carried so far in this " picked age " of ... manners previous to the revolution — that " décence , " which Horace Walpole so admired , * veiling the moral ...
... manner , the cen- sorious , hypocritical , verbal scrupulosity , which is carried so far in this " picked age " of ... manners previous to the revolution — that " décence , " which Horace Walpole so admired , * veiling the moral ...
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Characteristics of Women: Moral, Poetical, and Historical Anna Brownell Jameson,Mrs. Jameson (Anna) Visualização integral - 1858 |
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acter admirable affection ALDA Anna Bullen Antigone Antony APOLLODORUS ARSINOE Bassanio Beatrice beauty Benedick Bretagne Cæsar Camiola character charm CHARMIAN CLEOPATRA coloring Constance Cordelia Coriolanus CYMBELINE daughter death delicacy Desdemona dignity dramatic Elinor eloquence exquisite eyes fancy father fear feeling female feminine fond gentle grace grief Hamlet hath heart heaven Helena Henry Hermione heroine honor husband Iago imagination Imogen intellect Isabella Juliet Katherine king Lady Macbeth Lear Leontes lord lover madam Madame de Staël marriage MEDON mind Miranda mistress moral mother nature ness never noble Octavia once Ophelia Othello passion patra Perdita pity placed play poetical poetry Portia portrait Posthumus pride prince queen Romeo Romeo and Juliet Rosalind scene scorn sense sentiment Shak Shakspeare Shakspeare's Shylock simplicity soft soul speak spirit story sweet temper tenderness thee thing thou tion tragedy true truth Viola virtue Volumnia whole wife Wolsey woman women words
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Página 411 - This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill ; cannot be good : — If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, • Against the use of nature...
Página 115 - My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
Página 61 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Página 75 - The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath; it is twice bless'd; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes...
Página 163 - I'd have you do it ever : when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so ; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o...
Página 417 - Hie thee hither, That I may pour my spirits in thine ear; And chastise with the valour of my tongue All that impedes thee from the golden round, Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crown'd withal.
Página 359 - You are my true and honourable wife; As dear to me, as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart.
Página 75 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does.
Página 165 - Give me those flowers there, Dorcas. Reverend sirs, For you there's rosemary and rue ; these keep Seeming and savour all the winter long : Grace and remembrance be to you both, And welcome to our shearing ! Pol.
Página 4 - 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.