Folk-lore of Women: As Illustrated by Legendary and Traditional Tales, Folk-rhymes, Proverbial Sayings, Superstitions, EtcMc Clurg, 1906 - 253 páginas This volume is a collection of essays on legendary and traditional tales, folk-rhymes, proverbial sayings and superstitions regarding women. |
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... turn to Japanese wisdom relative to woman's beauty , we find much the same advice given as is found amongst Western nations , one of their popular admonitions reminding us that " the heart is better than a beautiful face " -in other ...
... turn to Japanese wisdom relative to woman's beauty , we find much the same advice given as is found amongst Western nations , one of their popular admonitions reminding us that " the heart is better than a beautiful face " -in other ...
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... turning to uncultured tribes , Dr. Letourneau has given some curious illustrations in his " Sociology " on this point , which show how vastly different are their conceptions of beauty of complexion , some races even disfiguring them ...
... turning to uncultured tribes , Dr. Letourneau has given some curious illustrations in his " Sociology " on this point , which show how vastly different are their conceptions of beauty of complexion , some races even disfiguring them ...
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... turn her head , " a piece of proverbial lore which is found in France and Germany , and also in our own country . But , after all , there is one point to be remembered , for a popular German adage says that " handsome women generally ...
... turn her head , " a piece of proverbial lore which is found in France and Germany , and also in our own country . But , after all , there is one point to be remembered , for a popular German adage says that " handsome women generally ...
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... turn a dark brown into clear whiteness . " But , when it is remembered how enviable a prize beauty has always been , some allow- ance must be made for the fair sex if they have resorted to various little contrivances for enhanc- ing the ...
... turn a dark brown into clear whiteness . " But , when it is remembered how enviable a prize beauty has always been , some allow- ance must be made for the fair sex if they have resorted to various little contrivances for enhanc- ing the ...
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... turn . " In the " Hitopadesa , " one of the choice treasure - houses of Sanskrit wisdom - it is de- clared that , " Infidelity , violence , deceit , envy , extreme avariciousness , a total want of qualities , with impurity , are the ...
... turn . " In the " Hitopadesa , " one of the choice treasure - houses of Sanskrit wisdom - it is de- clared that , " Infidelity , violence , deceit , envy , extreme avariciousness , a total want of qualities , with impurity , are the ...
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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.