 | Charlotte Brontë - 1849 - 320 pages
...wearing what they sew. Could men live so themselves? Would they not be very weary? And, when there came no relief to their weariness, but only reproaches...manifestation, would not their weariness ferment in time to phrenzy ? Lucretia, spinning at midnight in the midst of her maidens, and Solomon's virtuous woman,... | |
 | 430 pages
...themselves ? Would they not he very weary ? And, when there came no relief to their weariness, hut only reproaches at its slightest manifestation, would not their weariness ferment in time to frenzy ? .... Men of England ! louk at your poor girls, many of them fading around you, dropping off in consumption... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1850 - 588 pages
...wearing what they sew. Could men live so themselves 1 Would they not be very weary ? And when there came no relief to their weariness, but only reproaches...patterns of what ' the sex' (as they say) ought to be. I don't know : Lucretia, I dare say, was a most worthy sort of person, much like my cousin Hortense... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1857 - 318 pages
...wearing what they sew. Could men live so themselves ? would they not be very weary ? and when there came no relief to their weariness but only reproaches at...patterns of what ' the sex ' (as they say) ought to be. I don't know : Lucretia, I dare say, was a most worthy sort of person, but she kept her servants up... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1859 - 582 pages
...wearing what they sow. Could men live so themselves 1 Would they not be very weary ? And when there came no relief to their weariness, but only reproaches...not • their weariness ferment in time to frenzy ? Lucrctia, spinning at midnight in the midst of her maidens, and Solomon's virtuous woman, nre often... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1872 - 610 pages
...wearing what they sew. Could men live so themselves ? Would they not be very weary ? And, when there came no relief to their weariness, but only reproaches...patterns of what ' the sex ' (as they say) ought to be. I don't know : Lucretia, I daresay, was a most worthy sort of person, much like my cousin Hortense... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë, Laura Carter Holloway - 1883 - 168 pages
...they possess now. Could men live so themselves ? Would they not be very weary ? And, when there came no relief to their weariness, but only reproaches...patterns of what " the sex " (as they say) ought to be. I don't know. Lucretia, I daresay, was a most worthy sort of a person, much like my cousin Hortense... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1893 - 376 pages
...wearing what they sew. Could men live so themselves ? Would they not be very weary ? And, when there came no relief to their weariness, but only reproaches...patterns of what ' the sex ' (as they say) ought to be. I don't know : Lucretia, I dare say, was a most worthy sort of person, much like my cousin Hortense... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1896 - 382 pages
...wearing what they sew. Could men live so themselves ? Would they not be very weary ? And, when there came no relief to their weariness, but only reproaches...patterns of what ' the sex ' (as they say) ought to be. I don't know : Lucretia, I dare say, was a most worthy sort of person, much like my cousin Hortense... | |
 | Clara Elizabeth Collet - 1902 - 184 pages
...wearing what they sew. Could men live so themselves ? Would they not be very weary ? And, when there came no relief to their weariness, but only reproaches...would not their weariness ferment in time to frenzy ? . . . King of Israel, your model of a woman is a worthy model. But are we, in these days, brought... | |
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... long, as if they had no germs of faculties for anything else: a doctrine as reasonable to hold, as it would be that the fathers have no faculties but for eating what their daughters cook, or for wearing what they sew. Could men live so themselves?... 
