A New AtmosphereTicknor and Fields, 1865 - 310 pages |
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... thought can but arise , if a flower so fair can spring from a soil so badly tilled , what graceful and glorious growths might we not see did art but combine with nature to produce the conditions of the highest development ! We lament ...
... thought can but arise , if a flower so fair can spring from a soil so badly tilled , what graceful and glorious growths might we not see did art but combine with nature to produce the conditions of the highest development ! We lament ...
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... thought of her portrayed future . But unless such an erasure is made , or seems to be made , she knows that she forfeits good opinion , and stands in great danger of losing the one prize which has 12 A NEW ATMOSPHERE .
... thought of her portrayed future . But unless such an erasure is made , or seems to be made , she knows that she forfeits good opinion , and stands in great danger of losing the one prize which has 12 A NEW ATMOSPHERE .
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... thought of , and accordingly she takes up with what comes to hand . The few who are endowed with unusual charms of mind or person may exercise a limited choice , but the com- mon run of girls must make a common run of it . If one who is ...
... thought of , and accordingly she takes up with what comes to hand . The few who are endowed with unusual charms of mind or person may exercise a limited choice , but the com- mon run of girls must make a common run of it . If one who is ...
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... thought it did more harm than good . Every year a class was graduated , and they were all ladies and did not want to work , but must all teach , and there were no schools for so many ; what could be done with them ? It was an evil that ...
... thought it did more harm than good . Every year a class was graduated , and they were all ladies and did not want to work , but must all teach , and there were no schools for so many ; what could be done with them ? It was an evil that ...
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... bestow upon a trade or a profession the study and thought which are necessary to insure skill . But this is a result as well as a cause , and must be removed 2 * C A NEW ATMOSPHERE . 33 was the taste; nobody put it there, and ...
... bestow upon a trade or a profession the study and thought which are necessary to insure skill . But this is a result as well as a cause , and must be removed 2 * C A NEW ATMOSPHERE . 33 was the taste; nobody put it there, and ...
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Page 254 - God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with, One to show a woman when he loves her!
Page 276 - Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church : and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
Page 298 - I made them lay their hands in mine and swear To reverence the King, as if he were Their conscience, and their conscience as their King...
Page 279 - Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Page 253 - I shall never, in the years remaining, Paint you pictures, no, nor carve you statues, Make you music that should all-express me; So it seems: I stand on my attainment. This of verse alone, one life allows me; Verse and nothing else have I to give you Other heights in other lives, God willing: All the gifts from all the heights, your own, love!
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Page 251 - TO the beloved and deplored memory of her who was the inspirer, and in part the author, of all that is best in my writings — the friend and wife whose exalted sense of truth and right was my strongest incitement, and whose approbation was my chief reward — / dedicate this volume.
Page 102 - And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
Page 253 - She would turn a new side to her mortal, Side unseen of herdsman, huntsman, steersman — Blank to Zoroaster on his terrace, Blind to Galileo on his turret, Dumb to Homer, dumb to Keats — him, even!
Page 263 - JACK and Jill went up the hill, To fetch a pail of water; Jack fell down and broke his crown And Jill came tumbling after.