Folk-lore of Women: As Illustrated by Legendary and Traditional Tales, Folk-rhymes, Proverbial Sayings, Superstitions, EtcMc Clurg, 1906 - 253 páginas |
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... charms , and accordingly they were styled , " Children of the Gods " by the Greeks . In " As you Like it " ( act iii . sc . 5 ) , the Shepherdess Phoebe complains of being scorned on account of her being dark- " I have more cause to ...
... charms , and accordingly they were styled , " Children of the Gods " by the Greeks . In " As you Like it " ( act iii . sc . 5 ) , the Shepherdess Phoebe complains of being scorned on account of her being dark- " I have more cause to ...
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... charm of juvenescence , judging from the rules laid down for this purpose ; a popular folk - rhyme advising us thus : — " Those who wish to be fair and stout , Must wash their faces with the disclout ; Those who wish to be wrinkled and ...
... charm of juvenescence , judging from the rules laid down for this purpose ; a popular folk - rhyme advising us thus : — " Those who wish to be fair and stout , Must wash their faces with the disclout ; Those who wish to be wrinkled and ...
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... charms , because the soul is seen , Hence men are often captives of a face They know not why , of no peculiar grace . Some forms , though bright , no mortal man can bear , Some , none resist , though not exceeding fair . ” Moralists and ...
... charms , because the soul is seen , Hence men are often captives of a face They know not why , of no peculiar grace . Some forms , though bright , no mortal man can bear , Some , none resist , though not exceeding fair . ” Moralists and ...
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... charms of a woman's beauty , qualify their statements with a warning , as in the German proverb , " Beauty is the eye's food , and the soul's sorrow ; an old English maxim is to the same effect : " A beautiful woman is the paradox of ...
... charms of a woman's beauty , qualify their statements with a warning , as in the German proverb , " Beauty is the eye's food , and the soul's sorrow ; an old English maxim is to the same effect : " A beautiful woman is the paradox of ...
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... charms of the fair sex . Thus , as beautiful women had the reputation of being less handy and serviceable than plain ones , the adage arose which says " A fair woman and a slashed gown will always find some nail in the way ; " in other ...
... charms of the fair sex . Thus , as beautiful women had the reputation of being less handy and serviceable than plain ones , the adage arose which says " A fair woman and a slashed gown will always find some nail in the way ; " in other ...
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Folk-lore of Women: As Illustrated by Legendary and Traditionary Tales, Folk ... Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer Visualização integral - 1905 |
Folk-lore of Women: As Illustrated by Legendary and Traditionary Tales, Folk ... Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer Visualização de excertos - 1990 |
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Página 54 - IN the old age black was not counted fair, Or if it were, it bore not beauty's name; But now is black beauty's successive heir, And beauty...
Página 38 - Veil'd in a simple robe, their best attire, * Beyond the pomp of dress ; for loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, But is, when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.
Página 122 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Página 172 - True love's the gift which God has given To man alone beneath the heaven : It is not fantasy's hot fire, Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly; It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die ; It is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie, Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, In body and in soul can bind.
Página 3 - Ohy woman! lovely woman! nature made thee .To temper man : we had been brutes without you. Angels are painted fair, to look like you : There's in you all that we believe of Heaven, Amazing brightness, purity, and truth, Eternal joy, and everlasting love.
Página 32 - The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
Página 41 - tis the mind that makes the body rich ; And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, So honour peereth in the meanest habit. What, is the jay more precious than the lark, Because his feathers are more beautiful ? Or is the adder better than the eel, Because his painted skin contents the eye ? O, no, good Kate ; neither art thou the worse For this poor furniture, and mean array.
Página 16 - Those far-renowned brides of ancient song Peopled the hollow dark, like burning stars, And I heard sounds of insult, shame, and wrong, And trumpets blown for wars...
Página 86 - Or pallid with despair — just as the gale Varies from north to south — from heat to cold ! Oh, woman ! woman ! thou shouldst have few sins Of thine own to answer for ! Thou art the author Of such a book of follies in a man, That it would need the tears of all the angels To blot the record out ! Enter MELNOTTE, pale and agitated.
Página 221 - You must lie in another county, and knit the left garter about the right-legged stocking, let the other garter and stocking alone, and as you rehearse these following verses, at every comma knit a knot : — This knot I knit, To know the thing I know not yet, That I may see The man that shall my husband be : How he goes, and what he wears, And what he does all days and years.