Woman: as she is, and as she should be1835 |
Между кориците на книгата
Резултати 1 - 5 от 30.
Страница 54
... conversation ; and there are reasons for it . In the first place , men court female society expressly as a recreation ; they love to unbend their minds , and seek a respite from business , or from sense and speculation . For the soul of ...
... conversation ; and there are reasons for it . In the first place , men court female society expressly as a recreation ; they love to unbend their minds , and seek a respite from business , or from sense and speculation . For the soul of ...
Страница 55
... conversation ; yet " a small degree of know- ledge entertains in a woman * ; " for she merely requires taste , her object being rather the agree- able than the useful . Besides all which , the very simplicity of mind , the playful ...
... conversation ; yet " a small degree of know- ledge entertains in a woman * ; " for she merely requires taste , her object being rather the agree- able than the useful . Besides all which , the very simplicity of mind , the playful ...
Страница 56
... conversation as with everything else . When a beautiful woman speaks , more than half the point and magic of what she utters is in her glance ; cheeks that are soft and blooming need not the aid of a ripe wit ; a " red , red lip , " has ...
... conversation as with everything else . When a beautiful woman speaks , more than half the point and magic of what she utters is in her glance ; cheeks that are soft and blooming need not the aid of a ripe wit ; a " red , red lip , " has ...
Страница 59
... conversation . Thus it comes that women are so often found unequal to themselves , and with all their pretty fluency in nonsense , and a certain bewitching confidence in their own ignorance , they never interest long as intellectual ...
... conversation . Thus it comes that women are so often found unequal to themselves , and with all their pretty fluency in nonsense , and a certain bewitching confidence in their own ignorance , they never interest long as intellectual ...
Страница 61
... Conversation is never among them , as it ought always to be , a ball ; there is no " give and take . " They only soliloquise ; they dissert when they should discourse , and are loquacious , not conversable ; they are , in a word , the ...
... Conversation is never among them , as it ought always to be , a ball ; there is no " give and take . " They only soliloquise ; they dissert when they should discourse , and are loquacious , not conversable ; they are , in a word , the ...
Често срещани думи и фрази
Adam Smith admiration Æneid affections amusement Aristotle beauty become better Blackwood's Magazine Bulwer's England caprice CHAPTER character charm Cicero consequence contempt control-I crea creature custom dance Dido dress effeminacy elegance especially ÉTan Euripides evil excellence eyes fair fancy fashion favour feel femmes fiction folly fool frivolity gallantry genius give glish habits happiness heart honour human nature humours idle Iliad imagination incubus indulgence influence intellectual Italian language labourer ladies lence less live look Lord Byron Madame de Staël manners marriage married mischief mistress mode Montesquieu moral ness never NOTES.-CHAPTER observed once passion peculiar perhaps persons pleasure polite possession pretend pride prime end principle racter reader reason refinement ridiculous says scarcely sense sentiment sinti smile social society spetse sphere taste things tion true truth ture vanity virtue vulgar whole wife woman women word writers
Популярни откъси
Страница 62 - I am ashamed that women are so simple To offer war where they should kneel for peace, Or seek for rule, supremacy and sway, When they are bound to serve, love and obey.
Страница 203 - Unargued I obey : so God ordains ; God is thy law, thou mine : to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise.
Страница 251 - With shining ringlets the smooth ivory neck. Love in these labyrinths his slaves detains, And mighty hearts are held in slender chains. With hairy springes we the birds betray, Slight lines of hair surprise the finny prey, Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.
Страница 37 - Childe Harold had a mother - not forgot, Though parting from that mother he did shun; A sister whom he loved, but saw her not Before his weary pilgrimage begun: If friends he had, he bade adieu to none.
Страница 71 - There is no point of the compass to which they cannot turn, and by which they are not turned; and by one as well as another; for motion not method is their occupation. To know this, and yet continue to be in love, is to be made wise from the dictates of reason, and yet persevere...
Страница 259 - I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chapfallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. Hor. What's that, my lord? Ham. Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i
Страница 137 - Elles tireront aussi diverses commoditez de l'histoire. En la philosophie, de la part qui sert à la vie, elles prendront les discours qui les dressent à juger de nos humeurs et conditions, à se deffendre de nos trahisons, à...
Страница 208 - A youth and maiden meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of each other. Such," says Rasselas, "is the common process of marriage.
Страница 4 - Among men, you see the ninety-and-nine, toiling and scraping together a heap of superfluities for one (and this one too, oftentimes the feeblest and worst...
Страница 111 - English stage ; for there is no question but our great grand-children will be very curious to know the reason why their forefathers used to sit together like an audience of foreigners in their own country, and to hear whole plays acted before them in a tongue which they did not understand.