A New AtmosphereTicknor and Fields, 1865 - 310 pages |
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... woman is not married , it is because she is not attractive , that to be unattractive to men is the most dismal and dreadful misfortune , and that for an unmarried woman earth has no honor and no happiness , but only toleration and a ...
... woman is not married , it is because she is not attractive , that to be unattractive to men is the most dismal and dreadful misfortune , and that for an unmarried woman earth has no honor and no happiness , but only toleration and a ...
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... woman's rights ! It is strong - minded ! It is discontented with your sphere ! It is masculine ! Milton and St. Paul to the rescue ! For contemplation he , and valor formed , For softness she , and sweet attractive grace . " So " she ...
... woman's rights ! It is strong - minded ! It is discontented with your sphere ! It is masculine ! Milton and St. Paul to the rescue ! For contemplation he , and valor formed , For softness she , and sweet attractive grace . " So " she ...
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... woman is a wife in the grub , every man is a possible husband in the chrysalis state . If young people enjoy each other's conver- sation , and make opportunities to secure it , there are dozens of gossips , male and female , who pro ...
... woman is a wife in the grub , every man is a possible husband in the chrysalis state . If young people enjoy each other's conver- sation , and make opportunities to secure it , there are dozens of gossips , male and female , who pro ...
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... woman in character , a child in position , she marries the first man that holds out the golden spectre , I meant sceptre , but perhaps the first will do just as well . I am speaking of the masses . I know that there are exceptions . In ...
... woman in character , a child in position , she marries the first man that holds out the golden spectre , I meant sceptre , but perhaps the first will do just as well . I am speaking of the masses . I know that there are exceptions . In ...
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... woman's - sphere - ism is destroying . Women may be weak , yet even in weakness is strength , but you have trodden down strength . You trample under foot all sensibility , all delicacy , all dignity . A woman can preserve her integrity ...
... woman's - sphere - ism is destroying . Women may be weak , yet even in weakness is strength , but you have trodden down strength . You trample under foot all sensibility , all delicacy , all dignity . A woman can preserve her integrity ...
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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.