Folk-lore of Women: As Illustrated by Legendary and Traditionary Tales, Folk-rhymes, Proverbial Sayings, Superstitions, EtcElliot Stock, 1905 - 253 páginas |
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... maiden at the kneading trough , and not at the dance . " That two women seldom keep friends for long without quarrelling has long been proverbial , and a Tamil adage remarks that " A thousand men may live together in harmony , whereas ...
... maiden at the kneading trough , and not at the dance . " That two women seldom keep friends for long without quarrelling has long been proverbial , and a Tamil adage remarks that " A thousand men may live together in harmony , whereas ...
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... maiden's character was of " Heaven's own colour . " But Thackeray changed this tradition by invariably making his dark heroines nice , his fair heroines " treacherous sirens . " Another item of folk - lore tells us that- " A brown wench ...
... maiden's character was of " Heaven's own colour . " But Thackeray changed this tradition by invariably making his dark heroines nice , his fair heroines " treacherous sirens . " Another item of folk - lore tells us that- " A brown wench ...
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... maiden of such beauty as to provoke the jealousy of Minerva , wherefore she was trans- formed into a frightful monster ... maidens are very un- lucky , and clever young men have little beauty . ' It was also supposed that feminine beauty ...
... maiden of such beauty as to provoke the jealousy of Minerva , wherefore she was trans- formed into a frightful monster ... maidens are very un- lucky , and clever young men have little beauty . ' It was also supposed that feminine beauty ...
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... Maidens and roses soon lose their bloom . " And the same truth is con- veyed in the Hindustani proverb , " The spring in which he saw the blossoms is gone , now , O bee , only the thorns remain on the rose ; another version of which is ...
... Maidens and roses soon lose their bloom . " And the same truth is con- veyed in the Hindustani proverb , " The spring in which he saw the blossoms is gone , now , O bee , only the thorns remain on the rose ; another version of which is ...
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... maiden- " When nature now had wonderfully wrought All Auristella's parts , except her eyes ; To make those twins two lamps in beauty's skies , The counsel of her starry synod sought . Mars and Apollo first did her advise , Το wrap in ...
... maiden- " When nature now had wonderfully wrought All Auristella's parts , except her eyes ; To make those twins two lamps in beauty's skies , The counsel of her starry synod sought . Mars and Apollo first did her advise , Το wrap in ...
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Folk-lore of Women: As Illustrated by Legendary and Traditional Tales, Folk ... Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer Visualização integral - 1906 |
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 123 - 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 chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Página 55 - 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 37 - 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 173 - 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 79 - The man that lays his hand upon a woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom 'twere gross flattery to name a coward.
Página 31 - 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 40 - 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 vi - Still more striking is the expression of this fact in the proverbs of all nations, which are always the literature of Reason, or the statements of an absolute truth, without qualification. Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the Intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances, will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction. And this law of laws which the pulpit, the senate and the college...
Página 102 - I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound. And maidens call it love-in-idleness.
Página 222 - 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.