Happy Evenings; Or, The Literary Institution at HomeHoulston & Stoneman, 1851 - 312 pages |
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... gifted individuals , special favourites of the invisible powers , could do this , became an impor- tant part of every false religion . This desire formed the two mutually supporting classes of impostors and dupes . " With the advancing ...
... gifted individuals , special favourites of the invisible powers , could do this , became an impor- tant part of every false religion . This desire formed the two mutually supporting classes of impostors and dupes . " With the advancing ...
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... gifted writers of my own sex for two reasons ; first , because I thought they might not be held impartial , ( though I see no reason why they should not be ; ) but also because my time , and perhaps your pa- tience , would not have held ...
... gifted writers of my own sex for two reasons ; first , because I thought they might not be held impartial , ( though I see no reason why they should not be ; ) but also because my time , and perhaps your pa- tience , would not have held ...
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... gifted , may violate them with impunity . A hasty choice founded on a passing caprice is as fatal to the gifted and the great as to the lowly . And there is a reason for the frequent unhappiness of literary people , in the relationship ...
... gifted , may violate them with impunity . A hasty choice founded on a passing caprice is as fatal to the gifted and the great as to the lowly . And there is a reason for the frequent unhappiness of literary people , in the relationship ...
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... gifted minds of antiquity , their care of the education of youth , and zeal for the promotion of learning in their own country , furnish a strong contrast to the manners of the following age . " When the study of the learned languages ...
... gifted minds of antiquity , their care of the education of youth , and zeal for the promotion of learning in their own country , furnish a strong contrast to the manners of the following age . " When the study of the learned languages ...
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... gifted both by nature and fortune was so sensitive on the subject of one personal defect , that when told his genius elevated him above ordinary mortals , he replied , pointing to his lame foot , and that degrades me below them ...
... gifted both by nature and fortune was so sensitive on the subject of one personal defect , that when told his genius elevated him above ordinary mortals , he replied , pointing to his lame foot , and that degrades me below them ...
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Page 121 - Virtue could see to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk.
Page 30 - O Lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live: Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud! And would we aught behold of higher worth, Than that inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth, Of all sweet sounds the life and element!
Page 128 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food, For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Page 191 - You have chosen me, from a low estate, to be your queen and companion, far beyond my desert or desire. If then you found me worthy of such honour, good your grace let not any light fancy, or bad counsel of mine enemies, withdraw...
Page 128 - ... records, promises as sweet ; A Creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food ; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles And now I see with eye serene The very pulse of the machine ; A Being breathing thoughtful breath, A traveller between life and death ; The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill ; A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright...
Page 184 - For woman is not undevelopt man But diverse: could we make her as the man, Sweet love were slain : his dearest bond is this Not like to like, but like in difference. Yet in the long years liker must they grow ; The man be more of woman, she of man ; He gain in sweetness and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world ; She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care, Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind; Till at the last she set herself to man, Like perfect music unto noble...
Page 121 - What might this be? A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses.
Page 122 - So dear to Heaven is saintly Chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Page 128 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
Page 127 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!