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Página 39
... woman , more earnest than the sage in Rasselas , would have tried their virtue on herself . But I fear they fell somewhat coldly on the mother's ear . Happily , in these be- reavements , kind nature with her opiates , day by day ...
... woman , more earnest than the sage in Rasselas , would have tried their virtue on herself . But I fear they fell somewhat coldly on the mother's ear . Happily , in these be- reavements , kind nature with her opiates , day by day ...
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... woman could go to . MILVERTON . There should be certainly , but how is such a choice to be made , if the people who could regulate it , for the most part , stay away . It is a dangerous thing , the better classes leaving any great ...
... woman could go to . MILVERTON . There should be certainly , but how is such a choice to be made , if the people who could regulate it , for the most part , stay away . It is a dangerous thing , the better classes leaving any great ...
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... women very unreasonable and unpleasant companions . Oh , you may both hold up your hands and eyes , but I am not married and can say what I please . Of course you put on the proper official look of astonishment ; and I will duly report ...
... women very unreasonable and unpleasant companions . Oh , you may both hold up your hands and eyes , but I am not married and can say what I please . Of course you put on the proper official look of astonishment ; and I will duly report ...
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... woman is brought up in unreason and self - will from these causes that he has given , as many a man from other causes , but there is one great corrective that he has omitted , and which is , that all forms , fashions , and outward ...
... woman is brought up in unreason and self - will from these causes that he has given , as many a man from other causes , but there is one great corrective that he has omitted , and which is , that all forms , fashions , and outward ...
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... women . - I do not say that attention to the above matters of good air , judicious clothing , and freedom from bandages , will absolutely secure health , because these very things may have been so ill attended to in the parents or in ...
... women . - I do not say that attention to the above matters of good air , judicious clothing , and freedom from bandages , will absolutely secure health , because these very things may have been so ill attended to in the parents or in ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
affections agree amongst amusing aphorism beautiful better biped character child conformity corn laws Count Rumford courage course creatures cultivation dare say delight despair drances dulness DUNSFORD ELLESMERE essay evil expect facts false fancy fear feel fiction friends give GOETHE happy hear heart historian human imagine instance intellectual JAMES MUNROE JEAN PAUL RICHTER kind Lady Jane Grey least less live look man's MARY HOWITT matter mean men's ments merit MILVERTON mind mischief mode moral nation nature neglect never opinions perhaps person pleasure poplar present Price 50 cents public improve pursuits question RALPH WALDO EMERSON Rasselas recreation regards remorse rience Rollo Schiller simile soul suffer suppose sure sympathy Tacitus talk taste tell temper things thought tion Translated truth unreasonable vanity volume wise women word writing young England
Passagens conhecidas
Página 70 - ... there is something in it of divinity more than the ear discovers : it is an hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the whole world, and creatures of God; such a melody to the ear, as the whole world, well understood, would afford the understanding.
Página 40 - To be ignorant of evils to come, and forgetful of evils past, is a merciful provision in nature, whereby we digest the mixture of our few and evil days ; and our delivered senses not relapsing into cutting remembrances, our sorrows are not kept raw by the edge of repetitions.
Página 42 - Still various, and inconstant still, But with an inclination to be ill, Promotes, degrades, delights in strife, And makes a lottery of life. I can enjoy her while she's kind; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes...
Página 40 - Darkness and light divide the course of time, and oblivion shares with memory a great part even of our living beings; we slightly remember our felicities, and the smartest strokes of affliction leave but short smart upon us. Sense endureth no extremities, and sorrows destroy us or themselves.
Página 227 - All this long eve, so balmy and serene, Have I been gazing on the western sky, And its peculiar tint of yellow green: And still I gaze — and with how blank an eye! And those thin clouds above, in flakes and bars, That give away their motion to the stars; Those stars, that glide behind them or between, Now sparkling, now bedimmed, but always seen: Yon crescent moon, as fixed as if it grew In its own cloudless, starless lake of blue; 1 see them all so excellently fair, I see, not feel, how beautiful...
Página 189 - A THING of beauty is a joy for ever : Its loveliness increases ; it will never Pass into nothingness ; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
Página 39 - Man can do no other. In this wild element of a Life, he has to struggle onwards; now fallen, deep-abased; and ever, with tears, repentance, with bleeding heart, he has to rise again, struggle again still onwards. That his struggle be a faithful unconquerable one : that is the question of questions.
Página 39 - Struggle often baffled, sore baffled, down as into entire wreck ; yet a struggle never ended ; ever, with tears, repentance, true unconquerable purpose, begun anew. Poor human nature ! Is not a man's walking, in truth, always that : ' a succession of falls
Página 49 - These are the old friends who are never seen with new faces, who are the same in wealth and in poverty, in glory and in obscurity. With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is never petulant. Demosthenes never comes unseasonably. Dante never stays too long. No difference of political opinion can alienate Cicero. No heresy can excite the horror of Bossuet.