Women Writers: Their Works and Ways ...Ward, Lock, Bowden and Company, 1893 |
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... tell how they gained success , and how they enjoyed it . As we advance farther into the nineteenth century , we do not find that gaiety , that intense joy of living which are so characteristic of Fanny Burney and Lady Morgan . Our women ...
... tell how they gained success , and how they enjoyed it . As we advance farther into the nineteenth century , we do not find that gaiety , that intense joy of living which are so characteristic of Fanny Burney and Lady Morgan . Our women ...
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... tell us the contrary . The tide of years is rolling on , and yet two leading pub- lishers issue cheap editions of her works . Her poem of Casabianca is the first taught to us in childhood ; The Graves of a Household , the Stately Homes ...
... tell us the contrary . The tide of years is rolling on , and yet two leading pub- lishers issue cheap editions of her works . Her poem of Casabianca is the first taught to us in childhood ; The Graves of a Household , the Stately Homes ...
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... ! don't speak . " At another time , her mother used to tell of the interest she excited in a party who were visiting the Marquis of Stafford's collection of BRONWYLFA . 5 pictures ; she not only expressed great 4 MRS . HEMANS .
... ! don't speak . " At another time , her mother used to tell of the interest she excited in a party who were visiting the Marquis of Stafford's collection of BRONWYLFA . 5 pictures ; she not only expressed great 4 MRS . HEMANS .
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... tell you that I have stolen time to - day for the important purpose of making garlands for my little boys to dance with , as it is the birthday of the youngest . " In 1819 a member of the Highland Society , wishing to raise a national ...
... tell you that I have stolen time to - day for the important purpose of making garlands for my little boys to dance with , as it is the birthday of the youngest . " In 1819 a member of the Highland Society , wishing to raise a national ...
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... tell them that all these bright visions were dashed to the ground , and that the performance was a failure . Though ... tells the fatal story of the Sicilian conspiracy whose signal was the vesper bell . The midnight scenes and the fury ...
... tell them that all these bright visions were dashed to the ground , and that the performance was a failure . Though ... tells the fatal story of the Sicilian conspiracy whose signal was the vesper bell . The midnight scenes and the fury ...
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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.