Characteristics of Women: Moral, Poetical, and HistoricalWiley, 1850 - 340 pages |
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... noble motives , and pursue in our fancy the under current of feeling , working in her mind throughout . The terror and the power of Shylock's character , -his deadly and inexorable malice , —would be too oppressive ; the pain and pity ...
... noble motives , and pursue in our fancy the under current of feeling , working in her mind throughout . The terror and the power of Shylock's character , -his deadly and inexorable malice , —would be too oppressive ; the pain and pity ...
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... bed for him . Then immediately follows that revulsion of feeling , so beautifully characteristic of the hopeful , trusting , mounting spirit of this noble creature . But he may win ! And what is music then PORTIA . 1 :
... bed for him . Then immediately follows that revulsion of feeling , so beautifully characteristic of the hopeful , trusting , mounting spirit of this noble creature . But he may win ! And what is music then PORTIA . 1 :
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... noble nature , appears , in Camiola , too much a spirit of calculation : it savors a little of the counting - house . As Portia is the heiress of Belmont , and Camiola a merchant's daughter , the distinction may be proper and ...
... noble nature , appears , in Camiola , too much a spirit of calculation : it savors a little of the counting - house . As Portia is the heiress of Belmont , and Camiola a merchant's daughter , the distinction may be proper and ...
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... noble self - devotion of Camiola , which I acknowledge and admire , the two characters will admit of no comparison as sources of contemplation and pleasure . It is observable that something of the intellectual brilliance of Portia is ...
... noble self - devotion of Camiola , which I acknowledge and admire , the two characters will admit of no comparison as sources of contemplation and pleasure . It is observable that something of the intellectual brilliance of Portia is ...
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... noble creature in her natural sphere : for though Isabella , as Duchess of Vienna , could not more command our highest reverence than Isabel the novice of Saint Clare , yet a wider range of usefulness and benevolence , of trial and ...
... noble creature in her natural sphere : for though Isabella , as Duchess of Vienna , could not more command our highest reverence than Isabel the novice of Saint Clare , yet a wider range of usefulness and benevolence , of trial and ...
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Page 113 - The chariest maid is prodigal enough, If she unmask her beauty to the moon: Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes: The canker galls the infants of the spring, Too oft before their buttons be disclos'd; And in the morn and liquid dew of youth Contagious blastments are most imminent.
Page 325 - 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 326 - 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 278 - 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 326 - I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me; I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Page 100 - Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean: so, o'er that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race: this is an art Which does mend nature, — change it rather; but The art itself is nature.
Page 74 - tis pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other; To mutter and mock a broken charm, To dally with wrong that does no harm. Perhaps 'tis tender too and pretty At each wild word to feel within A sweet recoil of love and pity.
Page 98 - Even here undone ! I was not much afeard : for once, or twice, I was about to speak ; and tell him plainly, The selfsame sun, that shines upon his court, Hides not his visage from our cottage, but Looks on alike.— Will 't please you, sir, be gone?
Page xv - Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God afraid of me: Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.
Page 71 - Well, do not swear: although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract to-night : It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden ; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be, Ere one can say — It lightens.