The Woman's World, Volumer 1-3Source Book Press, 1888 |
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Side 11
... standing by with bundles ; one of them , instead of a bundle , carried a little new - born baby in swaddling - clothes , winking itself to sleep . There was the French family , looking like a group out of a fashion - book ; dandified ...
... standing by with bundles ; one of them , instead of a bundle , carried a little new - born baby in swaddling - clothes , winking itself to sleep . There was the French family , looking like a group out of a fashion - book ; dandified ...
Side 18
... standing on end , so that he was continually putting up his hand to stroke it down into position . He looked now at his wife . " Eleanor likes it , too ; this life suits her . We have not too much to do ; but then we have all been ...
... standing on end , so that he was continually putting up his hand to stroke it down into position . He looked now at his wife . " Eleanor likes it , too ; this life suits her . We have not too much to do ; but then we have all been ...
Side 19
... standing before the high , old- fashioned fireplace , resting one hand upon the shelf , which was on a level with her head . Her attitude and the glancing firelight brought out in fullest relief the charming lines of her rounded waist ...
... standing before the high , old- fashioned fireplace , resting one hand upon the shelf , which was on a level with her head . Her attitude and the glancing firelight brought out in fullest relief the charming lines of her rounded waist ...
Side 31
... standing with pale faces from which they strove to keep back the tears . For each she had a look , a word , a pressure of the hand . For the absent there were little gifts and mes- sages of farewell ; it seemed that none were forgotten ...
... standing with pale faces from which they strove to keep back the tears . For each she had a look , a word , a pressure of the hand . For the absent there were little gifts and mes- sages of farewell ; it seemed that none were forgotten ...
Side 38
... standings , for we caught only a word here and there , and had to guess the rest . The poor Empress was such a slave to etiquette that she would have thought it high treason had she spoken to me in a foreign language , though she ...
... standings , for we caught only a word here and there , and had to guess the rest . The poor Empress was such a slave to etiquette that she would have thought it high treason had she spoken to me in a foreign language , though she ...
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Side 232 - I trust is their destiny ? — to console the afflicted, to add sunshine to daylight, by making the happy happier ; to teach the young and the gracious of every age to see, to think, and feel, and therefore to become more actively and
Side 38 - Seasons does not contain a single new image of external nature ; and scarcely presents a familiar one from which it can be inferred that the eye of the Poet had been steadily fixed upon his object, much less that his feelings had urged him to work upon it in the spirit of genuine imagination.
Side 492 - Weep with me, all you that read This little story : And know, for whom a tear you shed Death's self is sorry. 'Twas a child that so did thrive In grace and feature, As heaven and nature seemed to strive Which owned the creature.
Side 440 - We may live without poetry, music and art, We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live without, books; But civilized man cannot live without cooks.
Side 492 - Therefore we proclaim, If any spirit breathes within this round Uncapable of weighty passion — As from his birth being hugged in the arms, And nuzzled 'twixt the breasts of Happiness — Who winks and shuts his apprehension up From common sense of what men were, and are ; Who would not know what men must be : let such Hurry amain from our black-visaged shows ; We shall affright their eyes.
Side 2 - On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object : can this cockpit hold The vasty fields of France ? or may we cram Within this wooden O the very casques That did affright the air at Agincourt...
Side 40 - And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Side 179 - Now these are poppies in her locks, White poppies she must wear; Must wear a veil to shroud her face And the want graven there...
Side 292 - Ring out a slowly dying cause. And ancient forms of party strife ; Ring in the nobler modes of life With sweeter manners, purer laws.
Side 38 - Women's Voices. An Anthology of the most Characteristic Poems by English, Scotch, and Irish Women. Edited by Mrs. William Sharp. Sonnets of this Century. With an Exhaustive and Critical Essay on the Sonnet.