The Intellectual Severance of Men and WomenT. C. Newby, 1860 - 124 páginas |
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... endeavour to change the subject . If they do talk , they display ignorance , and repeat the ideas of others . Married women reproduce the ideas of their husbands . Women , in general , are echoes of the last speaker . They have not a ...
... endeavour to change the subject . If they do talk , they display ignorance , and repeat the ideas of others . Married women reproduce the ideas of their husbands . Women , in general , are echoes of the last speaker . They have not a ...
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... friends abandoning formalities and sitting at ease round the fire , none will enter with greater enjoy- ment into the highest kinds of social intercourse , the endeavour to reclaim them . While we hate the crime OF MEN AND WOMEN . 21.
... friends abandoning formalities and sitting at ease round the fire , none will enter with greater enjoy- ment into the highest kinds of social intercourse , the endeavour to reclaim them . While we hate the crime OF MEN AND WOMEN . 21.
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James McGrigor Allan. endeavour to reclaim them . While we hate the crime , we should pardon the offender . genuine communion of thought and feeling ; and if the circle includes women of intelligence and refinement , so much the greater ...
James McGrigor Allan. endeavour to reclaim them . While we hate the crime , we should pardon the offender . genuine communion of thought and feeling ; and if the circle includes women of intelligence and refinement , so much the greater ...
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... endeavour to remedy nature's deficiencies as far as possible by art . read everything . Man feels that his heart is naturally so much more depraved than that of woman , that it is necessary to educate it in the same proportion . His ...
... endeavour to remedy nature's deficiencies as far as possible by art . read everything . Man feels that his heart is naturally so much more depraved than that of woman , that it is necessary to educate it in the same proportion . His ...
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... endeavour to carry this extreme nice- mindedness into literature , we must begin by sup- pressing the Paradise Lost ' of Milton ; for surely the mind impure enough to be offended by the Apollo and the Venus , will be terribly shocked ...
... endeavour to carry this extreme nice- mindedness into literature , we must begin by sup- pressing the Paradise Lost ' of Milton ; for surely the mind impure enough to be offended by the Apollo and the Venus , will be terribly shocked ...
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Página 39 - Or view the Lord of the unerring bow, The god of life, and poesy, and light — The sun in human limbs array'd, and brow All radiant from his triumph in the fight ; The shaft hath just been shot — the arrow bright With an immortal's vengeance ; in his eye And nostril beautiful disdain, and might, And majesty, flash their full lightnings by, Developing in that one glance the deity.
Página 110 - He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public.
Página 39 - There, too, the Goddess loves in stone, and fills(') The air around with beauty ; we inhale The ambrosial aspect, which, beheld, instils Part of its immortality...
Página 116 - And called her good as fair — For all God ever gave to her She kept with chary care. She kept with care her beauties rare From lovers warm and true, — For her heart was cold to all but gold, And the rich came not to woo — But honored well are charms to sell If priests the selling do.
Página 116 - Twixt Want and Scorn she walked forlorn, And nothing could avail. No mercy now can clear her brow For this world's peace to pray ; For, as love's wild prayer dissolved in air, Her woman's heart gave way ! — But the sin forgiven by Christ in Heaven By man is cursed alway ! In this composition we find it difficult to recognize the Willis who has written so many mere "verses of society.
Página 39 - Or view the Lord of the unerring bow, The God of Life, and Poesy, and Light — The Sun in human limbs arrayed, and brow All radiant from his triumph in the fight ; The shaft hath just been shot— the arrow bright With an Immortal's vengeance— in his eye And nostril beautiful Disdain, and Might And Majesty, flash their full lightnings by, Developing in that one glance the Deity.
Página 75 - Men, some to business, some to pleasure take ; But every woman is at heart a rake : Men, tome to quiet, some to public strife ; But every lady would be queen for life.
Página 62 - The fact itself, of causing the existence of a human being, is one of the most responsible actions in the range of human life.
Página 7 - ... any conjectural difference of original conformation of mind. As long as boys and girls run about in the dirt, and trundle hoops together, they are both precisely alike. If you catch up...
Página 39 - But in his delicate form — a dream of Love, Shaped by some solitary nymph, whose breast Long'd for a deathless lover from above, And madden'd in that vision — are exprest All that ideal beauty ever bless'd The mind with in its most unearthly mood, When each conception was a heavenly guest — A ray of immortality - and stood, Starlike, around, until they gathered to a god!