The Splendid Advantages of Being a WomanLovell, Adam, Wesson, 1876 - 362 من الصفحات |
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... ladies , or would abridge their priceless prerogatives . Perish the ignoble thought ! I would enlarge those privileges and multiply those prerogatives one hundred - fold , were it possible to do so . All I pro- pose is , to show how ...
... ladies , or would abridge their priceless prerogatives . Perish the ignoble thought ! I would enlarge those privileges and multiply those prerogatives one hundred - fold , were it possible to do so . All I pro- pose is , to show how ...
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... lady . Look at her Who ever saw Britannia in trow- A Nothing of the kind . figure on our coins . sers and a chimney - pot ? 66 Home , " there is none without a woman . 66 Beauty " merely means the sex female . Not alone are women ...
... lady . Look at her Who ever saw Britannia in trow- A Nothing of the kind . figure on our coins . sers and a chimney - pot ? 66 Home , " there is none without a woman . 66 Beauty " merely means the sex female . Not alone are women ...
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... lady ? " asks the omnibus - con- ductor , in his blandest of tones ; and no sooner said than done . Out rushes a gentleman in soaking rain and cutting blasts , to oblige a lady ( that is to say , to save her the expense of a sixpenny ...
... lady ? " asks the omnibus - con- ductor , in his blandest of tones ; and no sooner said than done . Out rushes a gentleman in soaking rain and cutting blasts , to oblige a lady ( that is to say , to save her the expense of a sixpenny ...
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... ladies ' man . Belonging to neither sex , it is the pest and reproach of both . And all because of its beauty . A man has a privilege to be ugly , and though it be true 66 99 enough , as Madame de Stael wittily observed THE ADVANTAGES ...
... ladies ' man . Belonging to neither sex , it is the pest and reproach of both . And all because of its beauty . A man has a privilege to be ugly , and though it be true 66 99 enough , as Madame de Stael wittily observed THE ADVANTAGES ...
الصفحة 13
... ladies . How often does one hear that most melancholy of all reflec- tions evoked by the sight of a woman once lovely , but whose loveliness is gone never to return : " How pretty she must have been when she was young ! " What a ...
... ladies . How often does one hear that most melancholy of all reflec- tions evoked by the sight of a woman once lovely , but whose loveliness is gone never to return : " How pretty she must have been when she was young ! " What a ...
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الصفحة 268 - Falsely luxurious, will not man awake; And, springing from the bed of sloth, enjoy The cool, the fragrant, and the silent hour, To meditation due and sacred song ? For is there aught in sleep can charm the wise? To lie in dead oblivion, losing half The fleeting moments of too short a life; Total extinction of th
الصفحة 151 - Yes, to smell pork ; to eat of the habitation which your prophet the Nazarite conjured the devil into. I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following ; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you.
الصفحة 51 - Tumultuous grandeur crowds the blazing square, The rattling chariots clash, the torches glare. Sure scenes like these no troubles e'er annoy ; Sure these denote one universal joy.
الصفحة 128 - She, of whose soul, if we may say, 'twas gold, Her body was the electrum, and did hold Many degrees of that ; we understood Her by her sight ; her pure, and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say, her body thought...
الصفحة 341 - Nor fear'd the chief th' unequal fight to try, Who sought no more than on his foe to die. But this bold lord, with manly strength...
الصفحة 20 - Aside for ever: it may be a sound — A tone of music — summer's eve — or spring — A flower — the wind — the ocean — which shall wound, Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound...
الصفحة 355 - Not poppy, nor mandragora, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep Which thou ow'dst yesterday.
الصفحة 18 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.
الصفحة 360 - Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly," death itself awakes ? Can'st thou, O partial sleep ! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude ; And in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
الصفحة 215 - Nature never set forth the earth in so rich tapestry as divers poets have done, neither with so pleasant rivers, fruitful trees, sweet-smelling flowers, nor whatsoever else may make the too much loved earth more lovely. Her world is brazen, the poets only deliver a golden.