Lectures on the Sphere and Duties of Woman: And Other SubjectsJ. Murphy, 1841 - 272 стор. |
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... pleasures of the senses . We ask them if the delusion is never to be dispelled , that life is to be spent in dull drudgery to acquire the means of living without the least reflection how those means are to be used in procuring the ...
... pleasures of the senses . We ask them if the delusion is never to be dispelled , that life is to be spent in dull drudgery to acquire the means of living without the least reflection how those means are to be used in procuring the ...
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... pleasures , their perpetual society , fail of uniting them in the most intimate affection ? If they have any literary ambi- tion , any desire for intellectual improvement , they may minister endlessly to each other's pleasures and ...
... pleasures , their perpetual society , fail of uniting them in the most intimate affection ? If they have any literary ambi- tion , any desire for intellectual improvement , they may minister endlessly to each other's pleasures and ...
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... pleasures and advantages of society , and make it a miserable slavery , to shut out of it those , who would adorn and improve it the most , and give it up to the empty , the ostentatious , and the weak . Beware then , I would charge ...
... pleasures and advantages of society , and make it a miserable slavery , to shut out of it those , who would adorn and improve it the most , and give it up to the empty , the ostentatious , and the weak . Beware then , I would charge ...
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... pleasures of free and independent action , are enough to make life pass agreeably away . But the time at length comes , when all these things begin to pall . The feeling begins occasionally to come over the young woman , that it is but ...
... pleasures of free and independent action , are enough to make life pass agreeably away . But the time at length comes , when all these things begin to pall . The feeling begins occasionally to come over the young woman , that it is but ...
Сторінка 133
... pleasures of this life , or useless cumberers of the ground , unhappy in themselves , and the cause of misery to others . A great change has un- doubtedly taken place in public sentiment upon this subject within the last half century ...
... pleasures of this life , or useless cumberers of the ground , unhappy in themselves , and the cause of misery to others . A great change has un- doubtedly taken place in public sentiment upon this subject within the last half century ...
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Сторінка 197 - Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'da blessed time; for, from this instant, There's nothing serious in mortality : All is but toys : renown, and grace, is dead ; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of.
Сторінка 188 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing, startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Сторінка 181 - And there lay the rider, distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail...
Сторінка 180 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen; Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.
Сторінка 46 - And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus...
Сторінка 180 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went out and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Сторінка 183 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet.— But hark!
Сторінка 173 - By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song ; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Сторінка 184 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, - alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass...
Сторінка 27 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won.