The Intellectual Severance of Men and WomenT. C. Newby, 1860 - 124 páginas |
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... qualities . He is to unite the wisdom of the serpent with the harm- lessness of the dove . The small talk which he lavishes on her is the intuition of his genius , under the inspiration of her beauty . He never talks like this to other ...
... qualities . He is to unite the wisdom of the serpent with the harm- lessness of the dove . The small talk which he lavishes on her is the intuition of his genius , under the inspiration of her beauty . He never talks like this to other ...
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... qualities , but for the culture of the immortal mind , by one of these beautiful creatures , would be the realisation of the exquisite fiction of Cupid and Psyche . I remember an instance of this which may be interesting to the reader ...
... qualities , but for the culture of the immortal mind , by one of these beautiful creatures , would be the realisation of the exquisite fiction of Cupid and Psyche . I remember an instance of this which may be interesting to the reader ...
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... 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 mother also , at a time when the life of vanity must ...
... 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 mother also , at a time when the life of vanity must ...
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... qualities of justice , morality , truth , and virtue in all the women at present existing in the world , to keep civilisation alive for one week . Take away the strong guiding intellect and the strong protecting arm of man , and woman ...
... qualities of justice , morality , truth , and virtue in all the women at present existing in the world , to keep civilisation alive for one week . Take away the strong guiding intellect and the strong protecting arm of man , and woman ...
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... do not indulge in gallantry , think they can do everything else with impunity ; of those women who entrench themselves proudly in their prudish- ness , and think that all the best qualities of 30 THE INTELLECTUAL SEVERANCE.
... do not indulge in gallantry , think they can do everything else with impunity ; of those women who entrench themselves proudly in their prudish- ness , and think that all the best qualities of 30 THE INTELLECTUAL SEVERANCE.
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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!