Noble Deeds of Woman: Or, Examples of Female Courage and VirtuePhillips, Sampson, 1858 - 470 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
Abbotsleigh affection affliction Anacaona Anne Boleyn appeared arms army arrived Artemisia battle benevolence besieged brother castle Charles Charles of Blois child Cleombrotus Colonel command conduct Countess courage danger daughter death distress Duchess DUCHESS D'ALENÇON Duke Duke of Guise emperor enemy entreated escape faithful father fear female Flora Flora Macdonald fortitude fortune France friends gave girl Grace Darling hands happy heart heroine honor hope human husband Hutchinson immediately Isle of Skye Jane Jane Lane king king's lady Lavalette Lavergne lived Lord Lord Wilmot Madame Madame Roland Mademoiselle Majesty Mardonius misfortunes mother muslin never night noble occasion Owthorpe pardon passed person poor presence of mind present Price prince princess prison queen received rendered replied resolved returned royal safety says sent SHAKSPEARE sister soldiers suffer tears TELESILLA thou tion took troops unfortunate virtue wife woman women young
Pasajes populares
Página 36 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder?
Página 428 - I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too, and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe should dare to invade the borders of my realm...
Página 317 - What is it that you would impart to me ? If it be aught toward the general good, Set honour in one eye, and death i' the other, And I will look on both indifferently ; For, let the gods so speed me, as I love The name of honour more than I fear death.
Página 431 - THERE is a land, of every land the pride, Beloved by Heaven o'er all the world beside ; Where brighter suns dispense serener light, And milder moons emparadise the night ; — There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest...
Página 341 - The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these. "The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn.
Página 278 - tis the mind that makes the body rich ; And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, So honour peereth in the meanest habit. What, is the jay more precious than the lark, Because his feathers are more beautiful ? Or is the adder better than the eel, Because his painted skin contents the eye ? O, no, good Kate ; neither art thou the worse For this poor furniture, and mean array.
Página 130 - Thy suppliant, I beg, and clasp thy knees; bereave me not, Whereon I live, thy gentle looks, thy aid, Thy counsel, in this uttermost distress My only strength and stay; forlorn of thee, Whither shall I betake me, where subsist ? While yet we live, scarce one short hour perhaps, Between us two let there be peace; both joining, As join'd in injuries, one enmity Against a foe by doom express assign'd us, That cruel serpent.
Página 273 - O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day ; Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away ! Re-enter PANTHINO.
Página 451 - O gentlemen, the time of life is short ; To spend that shortness basely, were too long, If life did ride upon a dial's point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour.
Página 270 - But let not your grace ever imagine that your poor wife will ever be brought to acknowledge a fault where not so much as a thought thereof preceded. And, to speak a truth, never prince had wife more loyal in all duty, and in all true affection, than you have ever found in Anne Boleyn...