Woman: Or Ida of Athens, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809 - 290 pages |
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... thought he perceived the snowy pillars of the portico , gleaming to the sun - beam through the intervals of the trees that embosomed it , and fancy , animated by tenderness and regret , ex- tended his gaze to that simple and de- licious ...
... thought he perceived the snowy pillars of the portico , gleaming to the sun - beam through the intervals of the trees that embosomed it , and fancy , animated by tenderness and regret , ex- tended his gaze to that simple and de- licious ...
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... thoughts , his wishes , and his hopes ! " You will marry , " he added , “ like the rest of your countrymen : you will look forward to a numerous progeny , the sons of another marriage will weaken the interest now felt for the only child ...
... thoughts , his wishes , and his hopes ! " You will marry , " he added , “ like the rest of your countrymen : you will look forward to a numerous progeny , the sons of another marriage will weaken the interest now felt for the only child ...
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... thought with a sigh of the folly of man , that forces on the memory of childhood a premature information which the senses have not yet experi- enced , and the mind is incapable of comprehending . He knew that feeling preceded in ...
... thought with a sigh of the folly of man , that forces on the memory of childhood a premature information which the senses have not yet experi- enced , and the mind is incapable of comprehending . He knew that feeling preceded in ...
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... thought not beneath them to adopt for their's , as a concession to those errors which the natural weakness of man brings with it . * While beneath the various forms , ceremonies , and errors , which the ignorance and superstition of man ...
... thought not beneath them to adopt for their's , as a concession to those errors which the natural weakness of man brings with it . * While beneath the various forms , ceremonies , and errors , which the ignorance and superstition of man ...
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... thoughts of others , can have fewest of its own- that the supremacy of genius is the in- spiration of nature , and the mediocrity of talent , the imitation of art . The books he presented to her study , were few and select ; the history ...
... thoughts of others , can have fewest of its own- that the supremacy of genius is the in- spiration of nature , and the mediocrity of talent , the imitation of art . The books he presented to her study , were few and select ; the history ...
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Page 22 - Woman! it is to you the destiny of man is committed! 'tis you who govern the strongest impulse — the greatest passion of which his being is susceptible ... if it is for man to perform great actions, it is for woman to inspire them!" (11.22 & IV. 290) It is easy to see why a novel by a woman written to such an agenda has been little publicized today, and why Leask prefers to read Luxima (whom he derives from Jones's Shakun tala) as the dominated oriental...
Page 186 - Greece ! their fragrant beauty belonged alone to you : spirit of love — your's were their higher bliss ! the walk that never wearied — • the book so seldom understood — the music that intranced — the glance that sought the soul — the sentiment the heart embodied— a flower exchanged or given.— the twilight's pensive pleasures—the tender gaiety— the more delicious sadness — the timid, stifled sigh— the soft,, malicious smile— the thrill, the hope, the fear, each in it• self...
Page 14 - ... from the harmonies and conformities of nature, that man should borrow his political and moral adaptions, and learn from the Legislature of the Universe those beneficent laws, which should form the social compact of mankind. Whenever the institutions of government shall tend to excite and develope the natural sensibility of man, the happiness of the state will be affected, for virtue itself is but composed of the affections ; and the maxim of wisdom, or the exertion of art, proceeds only from...
Page 258 - Osmyn, and., for the first time, their feelings found a language they had so long and so vainly sought. That timid, gentle, trembling pressure, which virtue consecrated, and love so sweetly understood, conveyed to each an unspeakable sensation, as if a beam from heaven had passed through their frames, and left some of its divine warmth behind it. " Oh! my sweet friend, (softly murmured Osmyn ) what have I done that I should survive this moment? Oh ! Ida,. I die, and death is a blessing !" " Live,
Page 51 - ... (11.10). When we first see him he is, as it were, the young Apollo of homosexual attraction, a figure of "singular beauty" in "that charming aera (area? Ed.) in human life which vibrates between the lovely graces of adolescence, and the strengthening energies of manhood; the muscles were still rounded, the cheek was still carnationed; and the limbs were still light, flexible, and pliant: but energy was already stealing something from the curving line of grace, and vigor from the fragile bloom...