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... strength and the light of virtue within their own souls . Hence the strange anomalies of artificial society - girls of sixteen who are models of manner , miracles of prudence , marvels of learning , who sneer at sentiment , and laugh at ...
... strength and the light of virtue within their own souls . Hence the strange anomalies of artificial society - girls of sixteen who are models of manner , miracles of prudence , marvels of learning , who sneer at sentiment , and laugh at ...
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... strength . A woman's heroism is always the excess of sen- sibility . Do you remember Lady Fanshaw put- ting on a sailor's jacket and his " blue thrum cap , ” and standing at her husband's side , unknown to him during a sea - fight ...
... strength . A woman's heroism is always the excess of sen- sibility . Do you remember Lady Fanshaw put- ting on a sailor's jacket and his " blue thrum cap , ” and standing at her husband's side , unknown to him during a sea - fight ...
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... strength of affection , such as the heroism of Lady Russel and Gertrude de Wart , Shakspeare has given us some of the noblest modifications of it in Hermione , in Cordelia , in Imogen , in Ka- therine of Arragon . MEDON . And what do ...
... strength of affection , such as the heroism of Lady Russel and Gertrude de Wart , Shakspeare has given us some of the noblest modifications of it in Hermione , in Cordelia , in Imogen , in Ka- therine of Arragon . MEDON . And what do ...
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... strength of her reason , and her love for her hus- band , combine at this critical moment to conquer all fear but the fear of detection , leaving her the full possession of her faculties . Recollect that the same woman who speaks with ...
... strength of her reason , and her love for her hus- band , combine at this critical moment to conquer all fear but the fear of detection , leaving her the full possession of her faculties . Recollect that the same woman who speaks with ...
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... strength or intellec- tual energy , does not contradict the general principle founded in nature . The essential and invariable distinction appears to me this : in men the intellectual faculties exist more self - poised and self ...
... strength or intellec- tual energy , does not contradict the general principle founded in nature . The essential and invariable distinction appears to me this : in men the intellectual faculties exist more self - poised and self ...
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Page lxi - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Page 19 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown ; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
Page 21 - That skins the vice o' the top. Go to your bosom ; Knock there ; and ask your heart what it doth know That's like my brother's fault ; if it confess A natural guiltiness such as is his, Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue Against my brother's life.
Page 136 - Give me those flowers there, Dorcas. — Reverend sirs, For you there's rosemary and rue ; these keep Seeming and savour all the Winter long : Grace and remembrance be to you both,7 And welcome to our shearing ! Polix.
Page 56 - Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face, Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night. Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny What I have spoke: but farewell compliment! Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say 'Ay,' And I will take thy word: yet, if thou swear'st, Thou mayst prove false: at lovers' perjuries, They say, Jove laughs.
Page 19 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does.
Page lx - Happy in this, she is not yet so old But she may learn; happier than this, She is not bred so dull but she can learn; Happiest of all is that her gentle spirit Commits itself to yours to be directed, As from her lord, her governor, her king.
Page 57 - I should have been more strange, I must confess, But that thou overheard'st, ere I was ware, My true love's passion: therefore pardon me, And not impute this yielding to light love, Which the dark night hath so discovered.
Page 160 - I shall the effect of this good lesson keep, As watchman to my heart. But, good my brother, Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, Whilst, like a puffd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads And recks not his own rede.
Page 21 - But man, proud man ! Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven As make the angels weep ; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.