American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 59Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1862 |
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Page 17
Here is a likeness of a young woman , who seems to have spared no pains or expense in getting herself up in the most irresistible fashion - plate style . A black yail , rebosa - like , covers her head , and such a bewitching mass of ...
Here is a likeness of a young woman , who seems to have spared no pains or expense in getting herself up in the most irresistible fashion - plate style . A black yail , rebosa - like , covers her head , and such a bewitching mass of ...
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Then a joyous Frauenlob replied with - ' Early and late the sex I praise , And fain their praises would deserve ; The man who mocks at woman's grace , And from my course would make me swerve , I'd straight attack with bitterest song .
Then a joyous Frauenlob replied with - ' Early and late the sex I praise , And fain their praises would deserve ; The man who mocks at woman's grace , And from my course would make me swerve , I'd straight attack with bitterest song .
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Have n't I told you a woman must have a passion before she has a heart , just as the crude nacre must have light before it can be a pearl . What difference who excites the passion , so long as the heart is ...
Have n't I told you a woman must have a passion before she has a heart , just as the crude nacre must have light before it can be a pearl . What difference who excites the passion , so long as the heart is ...
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O you men ! women ought to be petrified to compete with you . ' • Miss Isham's youth is her protection , if she needs any . What does a girl of seventeen know of love ? What does love mean to her but a penchant for any agreeable man ...
O you men ! women ought to be petrified to compete with you . ' • Miss Isham's youth is her protection , if she needs any . What does a girl of seventeen know of love ? What does love mean to her but a penchant for any agreeable man ...
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I who have studied women these ten years ? ... Miss Isham was a young , beautiful woman ; he , a brilliant , agreeable man . ... Not in that of a girl of seventeen , and neither , as a rule , in that of older women .
I who have studied women these ten years ? ... Miss Isham was a young , beautiful woman ; he , a brilliant , agreeable man . ... Not in that of a girl of seventeen , and neither , as a rule , in that of older women .
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| Title | American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 59 |
| Editors | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew |
| Published | 1862 |
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