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affections amid Ancient Greece beau ideal beauty bestow brother character charity charms Christian circle circumstances commended companion condition connexion culture daughter deportment desire domestic dress duty dwell engagement fancy fearful feelings female fireside folly gentle gentleman girl give grace habits happiness heart Heaven holy honour human husband imagination individual intel intellectual joys labour Lady Jane Grey lative less lover Madame de Stael marriage marry mental mind moral mother nature ness never nexion noble object OLD BAILEY parents passion Père La Chaise perhaps Persia Petrarch Phoenician women piety principle purity racter regard relation religion respect RICHARD KINDER sacred sake scenes sentiment single sister society sometimes sorrow soul sphere spirit suffer sympathy taste thing thou thought tion tivate toil traits trials true true woman virtues wife women young lady young maiden young woman youth
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Side 56 - O Lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live: Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud! And would we aught behold of higher worth, Than that inanimate cold world allowed To the poor loveless ever-anxious crowd, Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth, Of all sweet sounds the life and element!
Side 58 - That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth: that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace...
Side 14 - For contemplation he and valour formed, For softness she and sweet attractive grace...
Side 62 - And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride, Would, in the way His wisdom sees the best, For them and for their little ones provide; But, chiefly, in their hearts with Grace Divine preside.
Side 11 - Behold, thou hast been careful for us with all this care ; what is to be done for thee ? wouldest thou be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host? And she answered, I dwell among mine own people.
Side 158 - But love, first learned in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immured in the brain, But with the motion of all elements Courses as swift as thought in every power, And gives to every power a double power, Above their functions and their offices.
Side 66 - I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day, I saw the hearse that bore thee slow away, And, turning from my nursery window, drew A long, long sigh, and wept a last adieu ! But was it such ? It was. Where thou art gone Adieus and farewells are a sound unknown. May I but meet thee on that peaceful shore, The parting word shall pass my lips no more ! Thy maidens, grieved themselves at my concern, Oft gave me promise of thy quick return.
Side 36 - Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, " I am, and none else beside me ; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children...
Side 35 - Athenian walls from ruin bare. IX. TO A VIRTUOUS YOUNG LADY. LADY, that in the prime of earliest youth Wisely hast shunned the broad way and the green, And with those few art eminently seen, That labour up the hill of heavenly truth, The better part with Mary and with Ruth Chosen thou hast...
Side 149 - What years, i' faith? Vio. About your years, my lord. DUKE. Too old, by heaven : let still the woman take An elder than herself : so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart...