The Friends, Foes and Adventures of Lady MorganW.B. Kelly, 1859 - 144 pages |
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Page 111 - Hardly more than four feet high, with a slightly curved spine, uneven shoulders and eyes, Lady Morgan glided about in a close-cropped wig, bound by a fillet or solid band of gold, her face all animation, and with a witty word for everybody.
Page 125 - ... penalties of a code, from which she derives but little protection. While man, in his first crude attempts at jurisprudence, has surrounded the sex with restraints and disabilities, he has left its natural rights unguarded, and its liberty unacknowledged. Merging the very existence of woman in his own, he has allowed her no separate interest, assigned her no independent possessions :
Page 29 - ... way, when they had lost it, in their sports ; or, at best, who had known them only as footmen, or other domestics, of the second and third order ; and so averse were they, some time ago, to have them near their persons, that they would not employ even those who could never find their way beyond the stable. I well remember a great, and in many respects a good man, who advertised for a blacksmith ; but, at the- same time, added, he must be a protestant.
Page 11 - Owenson had a fine person and commanding aspect ; in manner and deportment he was most gentlemanly. His Major O'Flaherty was a great favourite ; but his prime character was Teague in The Committee, or the Faithful Irishman...
Page 94 - DB not having any dealings with M. Cork and Orrery, begs to have a more explicit order, finding that the house is not known in the trade.
Page 118 - English weakness, that of talking incessantly of fashionable acquaintances, and trying to pass for very " recherche," to a degree quite unworthy of a woman of such distinguished talents ; she is not at all aware how she thus underrates herself. ' She is not difficult to know, for, with more vivacity than good taste, she...
Page 85 - My bane and antidote at once before me," and that in accusing me of " licentiousness, profligacy, irreverence, blasphemy, libertinism, disloyalty, and atheism," it presented a nostrum of universal efficacy, which was to transform my vices into virtues, and to render me, in its own words, " not indeed a good writer of novels, but a useful friend, a faithful wife, a tender mother, and a respectable and happy mistress of a family.
Page 140 - evil men and evil days ;*' and that in proceeding, I must raise a veil which ought never to be drawn, and renew the memory of events, which the interests of humanity require to be for ever buried in oblivion. I abandoned therefore my original plan, took up a happier view of things, • advanced my story to more modern and more liberal times, and exchanged the rude chief of the days of old, for his polished descendant in a more refined age : and I trust the various branches of the ancient house with...
Page 48 - I came to the selfdevoted task, with a diffidence proportioned to the ardour which instigated me to the attempt; for as a .woman, a young woman., and an Irish woman, I felt all the delicacy of undertaking a work which had for the professed theme of its discussion, circumstances of national import, and national interest.
Page 113 - fight with gentle words, till time brings friends," in that cause, which made Esther eloquent, and Judith brave ? For love of country is of no sex. It was by female patriotism that the Jews attacked their tyrants, and " broke down their stateliness by the hands of a woman ;" and who, (said their enemies,) " would despise a nation, which had amongst them such women ?" The epoch I have chosen for illustration, has in the present state of exhausted combinations, one great recommendation to the novelist...