Coelebs in Search of a Wife: Comprehending Observations on Domestic Habits and Manners, Religion and MoralsThomas & William Bradford, 1810 |
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Página 46
... passion how like a God ! " In com . If you looked into the whole comet - like eccentric orbit of the human character ; if you compared all the struggling contrariety of principle and of pas- sion ; the clashing of opinion and of action ...
... passion how like a God ! " In com . If you looked into the whole comet - like eccentric orbit of the human character ; if you compared all the struggling contrariety of principle and of pas- sion ; the clashing of opinion and of action ...
Página 62
... passion . Poor woman ! she fancies there is no violent passion but that of anger . Little does she think that ambition , vanity , the hunger of applause , the rage for being uni- versally known , are all violent passions , however ...
... passion . Poor woman ! she fancies there is no violent passion but that of anger . Little does she think that ambition , vanity , the hunger of applause , the rage for being uni- versally known , are all violent passions , however ...
Página 64
... passion to be great , destitute of the gifts which confer greatness , the painful efforts of ambition are like water , forced above its level by mechanical powers . It requires constant exertions of art , to keep up what art first set a ...
... passion to be great , destitute of the gifts which confer greatness , the painful efforts of ambition are like water , forced above its level by mechanical powers . It requires constant exertions of art , to keep up what art first set a ...
Página 70
... worse than the impulse of passion . I de- sire not a more explicit comment on a text , which I was once almost tempted to think unjust ; I mean , 1 the greater facility of the entrance of gross and notorious 70 CELEBS .
... worse than the impulse of passion . I de- sire not a more explicit comment on a text , which I was once almost tempted to think unjust ; I mean , 1 the greater facility of the entrance of gross and notorious 70 CELEBS .
Página 101
... passion and a talent . Though she has a correct ear , she neither sings nor plays ; and her taste is so exact in drawing , that she really seems to have le compas dans l'œuil ; yet I never saw a pencil in her fingers , except to sketch ...
... passion and a talent . Though she has a correct ear , she neither sings nor plays ; and her taste is so exact in drawing , that she really seems to have le compas dans l'œuil ; yet I never saw a pencil in her fingers , except to sketch ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
acquaintance admiration affection afraid allow amusement Aston Hall attention Barlow beauty Bible Carlton censure CHAP character charity cheerful Christian Comfit conversation creature curricle daughters dear delight dinner divine divine grace doctrines duty elegant endeavour eternal evil excellent eyes father faults favour fear feel Flam fondness girl give grace Grove habits hand happiness hear heard heart honour hope human indulgence kind labour Lady Aston Lady Belfield learning less ligion live look Lucilla marriage ment mind Miss Sparkes Miss Stanley moral mother nature neral ness never nosegay object observed opinion passion persons Phoebe piety pious pleasure poet poor principle profession racter Ranby rapture religion religious replied Sappho scripture seemed sense smiling soon speak spirit sure talents taste temper thing thought timate tion trust truth tural Tyrrel vanity virtue whole wife wish woman young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 100 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say her body thought.
Página 9 - Unpraised ; for nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.
Página 12 - Yet went she not, as not with such discourse Delighted, or not capable her ear Of what was high...
Página 55 - Look then abroad through Nature, to the range Of planets, suns, and adamantine spheres, Wheeling unshaken through the void immense ; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of...
Página 146 - BLESSED is he that considereth the poor and needy : the Lord shall deliver him in the time of trouble.
Página 106 - To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness, though we have rebelled against him...
Página 15 - I call education, not that which smothers a woman with accomplishments, but that which tends to consolidate a firm and regular system of character ; that which tends to form a friend, a companion, and a wife.
Página 131 - I knew them both ; and to know was to revere them. In them let our young ladies contemplate profound and various learning, chastened by true Christian humility. In them let them venerate acquirements which would have been distinguished in a university, meekly softened and beautifully shaded by the gentle exertion of every domestic virtue, the unaffected exercise of every feminine employment.
Página 177 - Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils : for wherein is he to be accounted of?
Página 54 - Mind, mind alone, (bear witness earth and heaven !) The living fountains in itself contains Of beauteous and sublime...