Women Writers: Their Works and Ways ...Ward, Lock, Bowden and Company, 1893 |
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... character for majesty , solemnity , or grace , and that she could distin- guish with closed eyes the measured tones of the oak or elm , the funereal sighs of the cypress , or the sensitive mur- murs of the willow or poplar . She took ...
... character for majesty , solemnity , or grace , and that she could distin- guish with closed eyes the measured tones of the oak or elm , the funereal sighs of the cypress , or the sensitive mur- murs of the willow or poplar . She took ...
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... character and of the beautiful landscapes which often drew her out of herself . These little locked volumes were always kept on her table , and were the confidant of many an unspoken grief . Here is one of the opening sentences : " I ...
... character and of the beautiful landscapes which often drew her out of herself . These little locked volumes were always kept on her table , and were the confidant of many an unspoken grief . Here is one of the opening sentences : " I ...
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... what various modifications the female character is capable of . Mrs. Jameson thought that women of the present age did not rise to their higher destinies , did VISIT TO WEIMAR . 35 not recognise what they might 34 MRS . JAMESON .
... what various modifications the female character is capable of . Mrs. Jameson thought that women of the present age did not rise to their higher destinies , did VISIT TO WEIMAR . 35 not recognise what they might 34 MRS . JAMESON .
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... character ; it is grossness , hardness , or affecta- tion . " In contrast to this low standard she brings forward characters of intellect - Portia , Isabella , Beatrice , Rosalind ; characters of passion and imagination - Juliet , Viola ...
... character ; it is grossness , hardness , or affecta- tion . " In contrast to this low standard she brings forward characters of intellect - Portia , Isabella , Beatrice , Rosalind ; characters of passion and imagination - Juliet , Viola ...
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... character- istics . The snowy rocks , the blue lakes , the rushing rivers of her native country , roused her to enthusiasm . Once , in a walk through a beautiful park , she was lost for some hours . Shouts were of no avail , and just as ...
... character- istics . The snowy rocks , the blue lakes , the rushing rivers of her native country , roused her to enthusiasm . Once , in a walk through a beautiful park , she was lost for some hours . Shouts were of no avail , and just as ...
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Women Writers: Their Works and Ways. Second series, Volumen2 Catherine Jane Hamilton Vista completa - 1893 |
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Página 23 - E'en while with us thy footsteps trod, His seal was on thy brow. Dust to its narrow house beneath ! Soul to its place on high ! They that have seen thy look in death, No more may fear to die.
Página 207 - Women are supposed to be very calm generally; but women feel just as men feel ; they need exercise for their faculties and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do ; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn...
Página 159 - Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right ; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise ; I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints, — I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life ! — and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
Página 211 - Divinely through all hindrance finds the man Behind it, and so paints him that his face, The shape and colour of a mind and life, Lives for his children, ever at its best...
Página 30 - Thy spirit, Independence ! let me share, Lord of the lion heart and eagle eye ! Thy steps I follow 'with my bosom bare, Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.
Página 277 - Lamb, with the devoutest faith in the high ideal which was to him a living truth, desired to plant a Paradise, where Beauty, Virtue, Justice, and Love might live happily together, without the possibility of a serpent entering in. And here his wife, unconverted but faithful to the end, hoped, after many wanderings over the face of the earth, to find rest for herself and a home for her children. "There is our new abode...
Página 197 - She looked a little old woman, so short-sighted that she always appeared to be seeking something, and moving her head from side to side to catch a sight of it. She was very shy and nervous, and spoke with a strong Irish accent.
Página 150 - I sit and think of you, and of the poems that you will write, and of that strange, brief rainbow crown called Fame, until the vision is before me as vividly .as ever a mother's heart hailed the eloquence of a patriot son.
Página 157 - Pomegranate,' which, if cut deep down the middle, Shows a heart within blood-tinctured, of a veined humanity.