The Splendid Advantages of Being a WomanLovell, Adam, Wesson, 1876 - 362 страници |
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... person is a more powerful recommendation than the best letter that can be written in your favor ; so that it comes to this , that an elegant form supersedes the necessity for a good character . Plato desires the possessor of Beauty to ...
... person is a more powerful recommendation than the best letter that can be written in your favor ; so that it comes to this , that an elegant form supersedes the necessity for a good character . Plato desires the possessor of Beauty to ...
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... persons you have ever met are not downright ugly ? Of course they are ! True , I know a man who is as Ugly as sin and not half as pleasant ; but then he suffers from bun- ions , poor fellow , and in any case he is but the excep- tion ...
... persons you have ever met are not downright ugly ? Of course they are ! True , I know a man who is as Ugly as sin and not half as pleasant ; but then he suffers from bun- ions , poor fellow , and in any case he is but the excep- tion ...
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... person- age whom he pretends to be , and that conviction is the main - spring of all the enjoyment that we experience in the contemplation of acting . We are lost in wonder and delight to think with what consummate craft a man can put ...
... person- age whom he pretends to be , and that conviction is the main - spring of all the enjoyment that we experience in the contemplation of acting . We are lost in wonder and delight to think with what consummate craft a man can put ...
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... person enough , and not a jot better than the ordinary run of humanity . If they would have the sense to accept the situation , and good- humoredly to say the one to the other , " Well , we have both been acting : the play is over ; let ...
... person enough , and not a jot better than the ordinary run of humanity . If they would have the sense to accept the situation , and good- humoredly to say the one to the other , " Well , we have both been acting : the play is over ; let ...
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... person he is as servile as he is supercilious and offensive to people of smaller means . The Proud Young Porter is afflicted with sudden ophthalmia when he meets an old school - fellow in a seedy coat . For the dear life of him , he ...
... person he is as servile as he is supercilious and offensive to people of smaller means . The Proud Young Porter is afflicted with sudden ophthalmia when he meets an old school - fellow in a seedy coat . For the dear life of him , he ...
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Страница 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
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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...
Страница 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...
Страница 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...
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.