Women Writers: Their Works and Ways ...Ward, Lock, Bowden and Company, 1893 |
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... took place when the young poetess was in her nineteenth year . The newly - married couple took up their residence at Daventry , in Northamptonshire , Captain Hemans having been appointed adjutant to the Northamptonshire Militia . They ...
... took place when the young poetess was in her nineteenth year . The newly - married couple took up their residence at Daventry , in Northamptonshire , Captain Hemans having been appointed adjutant to the Northamptonshire Militia . They ...
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... , after six years ' experience of matrimony , he took his departure for Rome , under the plea that his health re- quired a warmer climate . Nothing like a permanent sepa- ration was then contemplated , but he and his wife.
... , after six years ' experience of matrimony , he took his departure for Rome , under the plea that his health re- quired a warmer climate . Nothing like a permanent sepa- ration was then contemplated , but he and his wife.
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... took a melancholy subject . A Spanish Protestant in the time of Phillip II . suffers persecution , and at last escapes to an American forest with his child . The auto - da - fé and his im- prisonment in a vaulted cell furnish Mrs ...
... took a melancholy subject . A Spanish Protestant in the time of Phillip II . suffers persecution , and at last escapes to an American forest with his child . The auto - da - fé and his im- prisonment in a vaulted cell furnish Mrs ...
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... took great delight in seeing the waving boughs of trees through a church window . All legends relating to trees or flowers were peculiarly dear to her . One of her favourites was the Welsh legend regarding the trembling of the aspen ...
... took great delight in seeing the waving boughs of trees through a church window . All legends relating to trees or flowers were peculiarly dear to her . One of her favourites was the Welsh legend regarding the trembling of the aspen ...
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... took her to Ettrick and Yarrow and Newark Tower , and they walked through the Rhymer's Glen together , up wild and rocky paths , over rude bridges , and along bright windings of the little haunted stream . He repeated snatches of ...
... took her to Ettrick and Yarrow and Newark Tower , and they walked through the Rhymer's Glen together , up wild and rocky paths , over rude bridges , and along bright windings of the little haunted stream . He repeated snatches of ...
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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.