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... nature , she threw her- self into the required attitude with the old enthusi- asm . The very quaintest heroine of all fiction is to be found in the Lives of the Saints ; meanwhile the Early Fathers were calling her by the most oppro ...
... nature , she threw her- self into the required attitude with the old enthusi- asm . The very quaintest heroine of all fiction is to be found in the Lives of the Saints ; meanwhile the Early Fathers were calling her by the most oppro ...
الصفحة 15
... nature , and it would be ex- tremely interesting to take up these documents for careful comparison and examination , and submit them to learned bodies for discussion ; to analyze , gen- eralize , and philosophize upon them and discover ...
... nature , and it would be ex- tremely interesting to take up these documents for careful comparison and examination , and submit them to learned bodies for discussion ; to analyze , gen- eralize , and philosophize upon them and discover ...
الصفحة 19
... . This mediæval Judith being called upon to sacrifice her virtue to save her people , her husband expressed what - so it seemed to me - were very natural objections . He was entirely willing [ 19 ] MORALS OF THE MODERN HEROINE.
... . This mediæval Judith being called upon to sacrifice her virtue to save her people , her husband expressed what - so it seemed to me - were very natural objections . He was entirely willing [ 19 ] MORALS OF THE MODERN HEROINE.
الصفحة 20
Elizabeth Bisland. - were very natural objections . He was entirely willing to give his own life , but he was most reluc- tant to purchase his own , or his people's lives , at a price he held dearer than theirs or his . When she returned ...
Elizabeth Bisland. - were very natural objections . He was entirely willing to give his own life , but he was most reluc- tant to purchase his own , or his people's lives , at a price he held dearer than theirs or his . When she returned ...
الصفحة 23
... natural reaction against a weary period of Victorian virtue that almost amounted to virtuosity , and partly a sowing of literary wild oats by heady femininity , new to the liberty of the pen and not yet settled down to the sobered ...
... natural reaction against a weary period of Victorian virtue that almost amounted to virtuosity , and partly a sowing of literary wild oats by heady femininity , new to the liberty of the pen and not yet settled down to the sobered ...
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الصفحة 72 - One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good Than all the sages can.
الصفحة 130 - The melancholy waters lie. No rays from the holy heaven come down On the long night-time of that town...
الصفحة 124 - Our log-rolling, our stumps and their politics, our fisheries, our Negroes, and Indians, our boats, and our repudiations, the wrath of rogues, and the pusillanimity of honest men, the northern trade, the southern planting, the western clearing, Oregon and Texas, are yet unsung. Yet America is a poem in our eyes ; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
الصفحة 129 - My love, she sleeps! Oh, may her sleep, As it is lasting, so be deep!
الصفحة 225 - Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows ; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. Tt may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho...
الصفحة 21 - When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, ' To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die.
الصفحة 230 - A bright torch, and a casement ope at night, To let the warm Love in!
الصفحة 229 - Yes, I will be thy priest, and build a fane In some untrodden region of my mind, Where branched thoughts, new grown with pleasant pain, Instead of pines shall murmur in the wind...
الصفحة 122 - Howe'er it be, it seems to me, Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
الصفحة 87 - Here you come with your old music, and here's all the good it brings. What, they lived once thus at Venice where the merchants were the kings, Where St. Mark's is, where the Doges used to wed the sea with rings?