Woman in All Lands: Her Domestic, Social and Intellectual Condition, Interspersed with Strange Scenes, Customs, Romances, EtcC.F. Roper & Company, 1880 - 505 páginas |
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... western poets have depicted with such richness of coloring , and such charming blendings of light and shadow . The picture needs only to be true to possess a singular fascination . The vine - wreathed bowers , peopled with figures the ...
... western poets have depicted with such richness of coloring , and such charming blendings of light and shadow . The picture needs only to be true to possess a singular fascination . The vine - wreathed bowers , peopled with figures the ...
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... bath room re - unions . The limited round of amusements ; their monotonous character ; the absence of cleanliness in the locality and attendance , and the disregard of comforts and usages which Western society CAUCASIA .
... bath room re - unions . The limited round of amusements ; their monotonous character ; the absence of cleanliness in the locality and attendance , and the disregard of comforts and usages which Western society CAUCASIA .
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... Western society con- siders indispensable , make them far from attractive to us . But in Eastern countries no one cares for such matters , and the Trans - Cau- casian ladies find the highest satisfaction in loitering for hours in the ...
... Western society con- siders indispensable , make them far from attractive to us . But in Eastern countries no one cares for such matters , and the Trans - Cau- casian ladies find the highest satisfaction in loitering for hours in the ...
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... western portion , its pleas- ant towns and villages in the paradise of Georgia , to which the broad and desert - like steppes of the north form a striking contrast , had little . as it would seem , to gain from Russian conquest . But in ...
... western portion , its pleas- ant towns and villages in the paradise of Georgia , to which the broad and desert - like steppes of the north form a striking contrast , had little . as it would seem , to gain from Russian conquest . But in ...
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... western lovers . The whole village in which the lady resides sets itself to prevent such an invasion of its dignity , and the abduction requires , in consequence , much address and courage . The would - be bridegroom must dash into the ...
... western lovers . The whole village in which the lady resides sets itself to prevent such an invasion of its dignity , and the abduction requires , in consequence , much address and courage . The would - be bridegroom must dash into the ...
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Woman in All Lands: Her Domestic, Social, and Intellectual Condition ... A. von Schweiger-Lerchenfeld Sin vista previa disponible - 2018 |
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Página 433 - For all day the wheels are droning, turning; Their wind comes in our faces, Till our hearts turn, our heads with pulses burning, And the walls turn in their places: Turns the sky in the high window blank and reeling, Turns the long light that drops adown the wall, Turn the black flies that crawl along the ceiling, All are turning, all the day, and we with all. And all day the iron wheels are droning, And sometimes we could pray, 'O ye wheels' (breaking out in a mad moaning) 'Stop!
Página 83 - Till the sun grows cold, And the stars are old, And the leaves of the Judgment Book unfold!
Página 434 - And now, what time ye all may read through dimming tears his story, How discord on the music fell and darkness on the glory, And how when, one by one, sweet sounds and wandering lights departed, He wore no less a loving face because so broken-hearted...
Página 434 - IT is a place where poets crowned may feel the heart's decaying ; It is a place where happy saints may weep amid their praying : Yet let the grief and humbleness as low as silence languish : Earth surely now may give her calm to whom she gave her anguish.
Página 434 - He shall be strong to sanctify the poet's high vocation, And bow the meekest Christian down in meeker adoration; Nor ever shall he be, in praise, by wise or good forsaken, Named softly as the household name of one whom God hath taken.
Página 433 - Ay, be silent ! Let them hear each other breathing For a moment, mouth to mouth — Let them touch each other's hands, in a fresh wreathing Of their tender human youth ! Let them feel that this cold metallic motion Is not all the life God fashions or reveals — Let them prove their...
Página 93 - There's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream, And the nightingale sings round it all the day long ; In the time of my childhood 'twas like a sweet dream, To sit in the roses and hear the bird's song.
Página 435 - Deserted! Who hath dreamt, that when the cross in darkness rested, Upon the victim's hidden face no love was manifested? What frantic hands outstretched have e'er the atoning drops averted? What tears have washed them from the soul, that one should be deserted?
Página 469 - Or where the ruddy autumn fire Lights up the apple-paring, — " The coarseness of a ruder time Her finer mirth displaces, A subtler sense of pleasure fills Each rustic sport she graces. " Her presence lends its warmth and health To all who come before it. If woman lost us Eden, such As she alone restore it.
Página 435 - Adam's sins have swept between The righteous Son and Father — Yea ! once, Immanuel's orphaned cry, His universe hath shaken — It went up single, echoless, " My God, I am forsaken !" It went up from the Holy's lips Amid his lost creation, That of the lost, no son should use Those words of desolation...