Characteristics of Women, Moral, Poetical, and HistoricalSaunders and Otley, 1837 - 382 Seiten |
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... expression of malice , cunning and cruelty ! —and the effect is beyond conception appal- ling . Leonardo da Vinci worked upon the same grand principle of art in his Medusa- Where it is less the horror than the grace Which turns the ...
... expression of malice , cunning and cruelty ! —and the effect is beyond conception appal- ling . Leonardo da Vinci worked upon the same grand principle of art in his Medusa- Where it is less the horror than the grace Which turns the ...
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... expression of them . In character , it is the absence of truth , sensibility and re- flection . The vulgar in manner is the result of vulgarity of character , it is grossness , hardness , or affectation - If you would see how Shakspeare ...
... expression of them . In character , it is the absence of truth , sensibility and re- flection . The vulgar in manner is the result of vulgarity of character , it is grossness , hardness , or affectation - If you would see how Shakspeare ...
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... expression , and just as it is beautiful . Would it not be well , if this common and comprehensive word clever were more accurately defined , or at least , more accurately used ? It signifies properly , not so much the pos- session of ...
... expression , and just as it is beautiful . Would it not be well , if this common and comprehensive word clever were more accurately defined , or at least , more accurately used ? It signifies properly , not so much the pos- session of ...
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... expressions , which are calculated to strike a shuddering horror through the nerves - the reflections she interposes - her delays and circumlocution , to give time for any latent feeling of com- miseration to display itself - all , all ...
... expressions , which are calculated to strike a shuddering horror through the nerves - the reflections she interposes - her delays and circumlocution , to give time for any latent feeling of com- miseration to display itself - all , all ...
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... expression , as though they had grown up in her mind from long and deep meditation in the silence and solitude of her convent cell . O it is excellent To have a giant's strength : but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant . Could great ...
... expression , as though they had grown up in her mind from long and deep meditation in the silence and solitude of her convent cell . O it is excellent To have a giant's strength : but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant . Could great ...
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Seite 67 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Seite 366 - Like the poor cat i' the adage? Macb. Prithee, peace I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. Lady M. What beast was't then That made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; And, to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man.
Seite 344 - Must pity drop upon her. Verily, I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.
Seite 55 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think, The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Seite 364 - This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill ; cannot be good : — If ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, • Against the use of nature...
Seite 139 - I'd have you do it ever : when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so ; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o...
Seite 238 - And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Methinks I should know you and know this man; Yet I am doubtful; for I am mainly ignorant What place this is, and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me; For, as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia.
Seite 142 - Say there be; Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean: so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes.
Seite 269 - tis most certain, Iras. Saucy lictors Will catch at us, like strumpets ; and scald rhymers Ballad us out o' tune : the quick comedians Extemporally will stage us, and present Our Alexandrian revels : Antony Shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall see Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness I
Seite 133 - It were all one, That I should love a bright particular star, And think to wed it, he is so above me: In his bright radiance and collateral light Must I be comforted, not in his sphere.