Characteristics of Women, Moral, Poetical, and Historical: With Fifty Vignette Etchings, Volume 2Saunders and Otley, 1833 |
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... appears , all the merit of consistency and truth . The grief , the love , the remorse , and impatience of Leontes , are finely contrasted with the astonishment and admiration of Perdita , who , gazing on the figure of her mother like ...
... appears , all the merit of consistency and truth . The grief , the love , the remorse , and impatience of Leontes , are finely contrasted with the astonishment and admiration of Perdita , who , gazing on the figure of her mother like ...
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... of majesty - warm life . The fixture of her eye has motion in ' t , And we are mock'd by art ! And by Polixenes , The very life seems warm upon her lip , appear strangely applied to a statue , such as we 20 CHARACTERS OF THE AFFECTIONS .
... of majesty - warm life . The fixture of her eye has motion in ' t , And we are mock'd by art ! And by Polixenes , The very life seems warm upon her lip , appear strangely applied to a statue , such as we 20 CHARACTERS OF THE AFFECTIONS .
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With Fifty Vignette Etchings Mrs. Jameson (Anna). appear strangely applied to a statue , such as we usually imagine it - of the cold colourless marble ; but it is evident that in this scene Hermione per- sonates one of those images or ...
With Fifty Vignette Etchings Mrs. Jameson (Anna). appear strangely applied to a statue , such as we usually imagine it - of the cold colourless marble ; but it is evident that in this scene Hermione per- sonates one of those images or ...
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... appears to me that her silence during the whole of this scene ( except where she invokes a bless- ing on her daughter's head ) is in the finest taste as a poetical beauty , besides being an admirable trait of character . The misfortunes ...
... appears to me that her silence during the whole of this scene ( except where she invokes a bless- ing on her daughter's head ) is in the finest taste as a poetical beauty , besides being an admirable trait of character . The misfortunes ...
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... appears at first such a violation of all probabilities , that her father at once imputes it to magic , " to spells and mixtures powerful o'er the blood . " She , in spite of nature , Of years , 32 CHARACTERS OF THE AFFECTIONS . THE ...
... appears at first such a violation of all probabilities , that her father at once imputes it to magic , " to spells and mixtures powerful o'er the blood . " She , in spite of nature , Of years , 32 CHARACTERS OF THE AFFECTIONS . THE ...
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Page 228 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form ; Then have I reason to be fond of grief.
Page 318 - Like the poor cat i' the adage? Macb. Prithee, peace I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. Lady M. What beast was't then That made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; And, to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man.
Page 315 - Cannot be ill ; cannot be good : — If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion X Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair.
Page 104 - And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Methinks I should know you and know this man ; Yet I am doubtful ; for I am mainly ignorant What place this is, and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments, nor I know not Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me ; For, as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia.
Page 318 - As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat i
Page 317 - Which would be worn now in their newest gloss, Not cast aside so soon. Lady M. Was the hope drunk Wherein you dress'd yourself? hath it slept since? And wakes it now, to look so green and pale At what it did so freely ? From this time Such I account thy love. Art thou...
Page 291 - Orpheus with his lute made trees. And the mountain-tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing : To his music, plants and flowers Ever sprung ; as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring.
Page 152 - We'll bury him; and then, what's brave, what's noble, Let's do it after the high Roman fashion, And make Death proud to take us. Come, away; This case of that huge spirit now is cold. Ah, women, women! come; we have no friend But resolution, and the briefest end.
Page 40 - But here's my husband; And so much duty as my mother show'd To you, preferring you before her father, So much I challenge that I may profess Due to the Moor, my lord.
Page 322 - Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great, Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it. What thou wouldst highly That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win.