The Intellectual Severance of Men and WomenT. C. Newby, 1860 - 124 páginas |
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... humanity , love , beauty , religion , which enable the heart to defy all the rude and defiling contact of the world ? That calm , family life , with all its gorgeous poetic colourings , its heavenward aspirations , its spiritual pinings ...
... humanity , love , beauty , religion , which enable the heart to defy all the rude and defiling contact of the world ? That calm , family life , with all its gorgeous poetic colourings , its heavenward aspirations , its spiritual pinings ...
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... humanity , extend the scope of his intelligent and reflective powers , and beautify his soul for ever . His brain is a palimpseest on which is inscribed the grand panorama of History from the poem of Genesis down to the last revolution ...
... humanity , extend the scope of his intelligent and reflective powers , and beautify his soul for ever . His brain is a palimpseest on which is inscribed the grand panorama of History from the poem of Genesis down to the last revolution ...
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... human nature , condemned to guess at the characters and qualities of the men whom she meets in society ; -how desirable , under such circumstances , would be the closest sympathy , the most unreserved communion with a brother ! And to a ...
... human nature , condemned to guess at the characters and qualities of the men whom she meets in society ; -how desirable , under such circumstances , would be the closest sympathy , the most unreserved communion with a brother ! And to a ...
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... human being with wings would be as great an incongruity as a mermaid , a satyr , or a centaur . In what do purity and virtue consist ? In the successful resistance of temptation , or in being care- fully screened from the slightest ...
... human being with wings would be as great an incongruity as a mermaid , a satyr , or a centaur . In what do purity and virtue consist ? In the successful resistance of temptation , or in being care- fully screened from the slightest ...
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... humanity - the frivolity of their lives , satisfied with making conquests while in the heyday of youth and beauty , till selfish matrimonial schemes usurp the impulse of vanity - renders so comparatively rare in women . " Our fashion ...
... humanity - the frivolity of their lives , satisfied with making conquests while in the heyday of youth and beauty , till selfish matrimonial schemes usurp the impulse of vanity - renders so comparatively rare in women . " Our fashion ...
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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!