Characteristics of Women, Moral, Poetical, and Historical: With Fifty Vignette Etchings, Volumen2Saunders and Otley, 1833 |
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... extreme gentleness of nature is yet delineated with such exceeding refinement , that the effect never ap- proaches to feebleness . It is true that once her extreme timidity leads her in a moment of con- fusion and terror to prevaricate ...
... extreme gentleness of nature is yet delineated with such exceeding refinement , that the effect never ap- proaches to feebleness . It is true that once her extreme timidity leads her in a moment of con- fusion and terror to prevaricate ...
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... extreme simplicity of character , and quite distinct from that kind of art which is the result of natural acuteness and habits of ob- servation - quick to perceive the foibles of others , and as quick to turn them to its own purposes ...
... extreme simplicity of character , and quite distinct from that kind of art which is the result of natural acuteness and habits of ob- servation - quick to perceive the foibles of others , and as quick to turn them to its own purposes ...
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... extreme of refinement and the extreme of simplicity , -into one of the love- liest fictions of romantic poetry ; and , to use Schle- gel's expression , " has made the social manners of the latest times harmonize with heroic deeds , and ...
... extreme of refinement and the extreme of simplicity , -into one of the love- liest fictions of romantic poetry ; and , to use Schle- gel's expression , " has made the social manners of the latest times harmonize with heroic deeds , and ...
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... extreme simplicity in the midst of the most wonderful complexity . To conceive her aright , we must take some peculiar tint from many characters , and so mingle them , that , like the com- bination of hues in a sun - beam , the effect ...
... extreme simplicity in the midst of the most wonderful complexity . To conceive her aright , we must take some peculiar tint from many characters , and so mingle them , that , like the com- bination of hues in a sun - beam , the effect ...
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... extreme intensity of the feeling , and the unadorned elegance of the expres- sion . I would thou grew'st unto the shores o ' the haven , And question'dst every sail if he should write , And I not have it , ' twere a paper lost As offer ...
... extreme intensity of the feeling , and the unadorned elegance of the expres- sion . I would thou grew'st unto the shores o ' the haven , And question'dst every sail if he should write , And I not have it , ' twere a paper lost As offer ...
Términos y frases comunes
admirable affection Ambrogiolo Antigone Antony Antony and Cleopatra APOLLODORUS ARSINOE Arthur beauty Bretagne Cæsar character CHARMIAN CLEOPATRA Cloten colouring Constance Cordelia CORIOLANUS Creon CRESSIDA CYMBELINE daughter death delicacy delineation Desdemona dignity DOLABELLA dramatic duchy of Bretagne Elinor eloquence eyes false fancy father fear feeling female feminine fond gentle give grace grandeur grief hate hath heart heaven Hermione heroine honour husband Iachimo Iago imagination Imogen Juliet Katherine king Lady Macbeth Lear LEONTES lord madam manner Mark Antony maternal MESSENGER mind mistress mother nature never noble Octavia Othello passion pathos Paulina perfect PISANIO pity play Plutarch poetical poetry Polynices poor Portia portrait Posthumus pr'ythee pride queen racter Roman Rome royal scene sentiment Shak Shakspeare Shakspeare's simplicity sisters soul speak spirit story sweet tears temper tenderness thee thing thou art tion tragedy TROILUS true truth virtue VOLUMNIA whole wife woman women words Zinevra
Pasajes populares
Página 228 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form ; Then have I reason to be fond of grief.
Página 318 - 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.
Página 315 - 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 X Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair.
Página 104 - 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.
Página 318 - As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would," Like the poor cat i
Página 317 - Which would be worn now in their newest gloss, Not cast aside so soon. Lady M. Was the hope drunk Wherein you dress'd yourself? hath it slept since? And wakes it now, to look so green and pale At what it did so freely ? From this time Such I account thy love. Art thou...
Página 291 - Orpheus with his lute made trees. And the mountain-tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing : To his music, plants and flowers Ever sprung ; as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring.
Página 152 - We'll bury him; and then, what's brave, what's noble, Let's do it after the high Roman fashion, And make Death proud to take us. Come, away; This case of that huge spirit now is cold. Ah, women, women! come; we have no friend But resolution, and the briefest end.
Página 40 - But here's my husband; And so much duty as my mother show'd To you, preferring you before her father, So much I challenge that I may profess Due to the Moor, my lord.
Página 322 - Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great, Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it. What thou wouldst highly That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win.