Essays and Poems by Frances Mary OwenJohn Bumpus, 1887 - 252 pages |
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... mind and art of Shakespere , has said ' Shakespere's men have a history , moral growth or moral decay : his women act or are acted upon , but seldom grow and are transforined . We get from Shakespere no histories of a woman's soul like ...
... mind and art of Shakespere , has said ' Shakespere's men have a history , moral growth or moral decay : his women act or are acted upon , but seldom grow and are transforined . We get from Shakespere no histories of a woman's soul like ...
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... saying ' I am very sorry that you are not well . ' And her trust in Othello's nature too , how strong and loyal it is , when she loses the charmed handkerchief . " And but my noble Moor Is true of mind 6 SHAKESPERE AND GEORGE ELIOT .
... saying ' I am very sorry that you are not well . ' And her trust in Othello's nature too , how strong and loyal it is , when she loses the charmed handkerchief . " And but my noble Moor Is true of mind 6 SHAKESPERE AND GEORGE ELIOT .
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Frances Mary Owen. " And but my noble Moor Is true of mind and made of no such baseness As jealous creatures are , it were enough To put him to ill thinking . " Emilia asks , ' Is he not jealous ? ' And Desdemona answers with a ring of ...
Frances Mary Owen. " And but my noble Moor Is true of mind and made of no such baseness As jealous creatures are , it were enough To put him to ill thinking . " Emilia asks , ' Is he not jealous ? ' And Desdemona answers with a ring of ...
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... minds . If I do die before thee , prithee shroud me In one of these same sheets . " Emilia rallies her and mocks at her ... mind . But Emilia must not think she is sad . So she discusses Lodovico who has come from Venice , and yet breaks ...
... minds . If I do die before thee , prithee shroud me In one of these same sheets . " Emilia rallies her and mocks at her ... mind . But Emilia must not think she is sad . So she discusses Lodovico who has come from Venice , and yet breaks ...
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... of marriage . ' All her ' passion was transfused through a mind struggling ' towards an ideal life : the radiance of her transfigured ' girlhood fell on the first object that came within 12 SHAKESPERE AND GEORGE ELIOT .
... of marriage . ' All her ' passion was transfused through a mind struggling ' towards an ideal life : the radiance of her transfigured ' girlhood fell on the first object that came within 12 SHAKESPERE AND GEORGE ELIOT .
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Page 147 - I WANDERED lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay : Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
Page 161 - STERN Daughter of the Voice of God! O Duty! if that name thou love, Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove; Thou, who art victory and law When empty terrors overawe; From vain temptations dost set free; And calm'st the weary strife of frail humanity! There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them; who, in love and truth, Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth: Glad Hearts! without reproach or blot; Who do thy work, and know it not: 0 if through confidence...
Page 144 - It is a beauteous evening, calm and free, The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration; the broad sun Is sinking down in its tranquillity; The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea: Listen!
Page 112 - LET the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, " There is a man child conceived.
Page 58 - Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Page 157 - The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face.
Page 154 - tis surely blind. But welcome fortitude, and patient cheer, And frequent sights of what is to be borne ! Such sights, or worse, as are before me here, Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.
Page 161 - I, loving freedom, and untried ; No sport of every random gust, Yet being to myself a guide, Too blindly have reposed my trust; And oft, when in my heart was heard Thy timely mandate, I deferred The task, in smoother walks to stray ; But thee I now would serve more strictly, if I may.
Page 102 - For, don't you mark? we're made so that we love First when we see them painted, things we have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see; And so they are better, painted — better to us, Which is the same thing. Art was given for that; God uses us to help each other so, 394 Lending our minds out.
Page 30 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.