The Woman who DaredRoberts brothers, 1870 - 270 страници |
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Страница 265 - I make no wonder, but rest confident, that whoso prefers either matrimony or other ordinance before the good of man and the plain exigence of charity, let him profess papist, or protestant, or what he will, he is no better than a pharisee...
Страница 263 - What is now called the nature of women is an eminently artificial thing — the result of forced repression in some directions, unnatural stimulation in others.
Страница 193 - Then the discourse slid off to woman's rights ; For Lothian held a newspaper which told Of some convention, the report of which Might raise a smile. One of the lady speakers, It seems, would give her sex the privilege Of taking the initiative in wooing, If so disposed ! " Indeed, why not ?
Страница 261 - ... promotion — no career," except that of marriage, and for this they are trained to feel that it is disgraceful to seek. They have nothing to do but wait to be sought. Trained to believe marriage their highest boon, they are disgraced for seeking it, and must affect indifference. Meantime, to do any thing to earn their own independence is what father and brothers would deem a disgrace to themselves and their family. For women of high position to work for their livelihood, in most cases custom...
Страница 189 - ... he kens about leather." MELANGE. THE COMING ON OF NIGHT is thus described by Epes Sargent, in one of the beautiful passages of the " Woman Who Dared : " — But when the morn shone crescent in the west, And the faint outline of the part obscured Thread-like curved visible from hour to hour, And Jupiter, supreme among the orbs, And Mars, with rutilating beam, came forth, And the great concave opened like a flower, Unfolding firmaments and galaxies Sparkling with separate stars, or snowy white...
Страница 186 - Look! All the lighthouses Flash greeting to the night. There, Eastern Point Flames out ! Lo, little Ten Pound Island follows ! See Baker's Island kindling ! Marblehead Ablaze ! Egg Rock, too, off Nahant, on fire ! And Boston Light winking at Minot's Ledge ! Like the wise virgins, all, with ready lamps !
Страница 177 - From the main shore cut off, and isolated By the invading, the circumfluent waves, A rock which time had made an island, spread With a small patch of brine-defying herbage, Is known as Norman's Woe ; for, on this rock, Two hundred years ago, was Captain Norman, In his good ship from England, driven and wrecked In a wild storm, and every life was lost.
Страница 268 - Printed by Welch, Bigelow, & Co. This book should be returned to the Library on or before the last date stamped below. A fine of five cents a day is incurred by retaining it beyond the specified time.
Страница 263 - ... not self-will and self-government by self-control, but submission, and yielding to the control of others. All women are not Tess.
Страница 197 - Do not judge your friend ; according as we begin to judge, our love begins to weaken. Think you a little din can daunt mine ears? Have I not in my time heard lions roar? Have I not heard great ordnance in the field, And heaven's artillery thunder in the skies? And do you...