Lady Byron Vindicated: A History of the Byron Controversy, from Its Beginning in 1816 to the Present TimeFields, Osgood, & Company, 1870 - 482페이지 |
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482 페이지 - Then thou wouldst at last discover "Twas not .well to spurn it so. Though the world for this commend thee, Though it smile upon the blow, Even its praises must oflend thee, Founded on another's woe. Though my many faults
401 페이지 - curious and carnal persons, lacking the spirit of Christ, to have continually before their eyes the sentence of God's predestination, is a most dangerous downfall, whereby the Devil doth thrust them either into desperation, or into wretchedness of most unclean living, —no less perilous than desperation.
397 페이지 - There is a war, a chaos of the mind, When all its elements convulsed — combined, Lie dark and jarring with perturbed force, And gnashing with impenitent remorse That juggling fiend, who never spake before, But cries, ' I warned thee ! ' when the deed is o'er.
427 페이지 - Like the lamented late Sir Samuel Romilly. In short, she was a walking calculation, — Miss Edgeworth's novels stepping from their covers, Or Mrs. Trimmer's books on education, Or Cceleb's wife set out in quest of lovers, Morality's prim personification, In which not envy's self a flaw discovers. To others' share
199 페이지 - She is a very superior woman, and very little spoiled ; which is strange in an heiress, a girl of twenty, a peeress that is to be in her own right, an only child, and a savante, who has always had her own way. She is a poetess, a mathematician, a metaphysician ; yet,
428 페이지 - O ye lords of ladies intellectual ! Inform us truly, have they not henpecked you all ? Don Jose and the Donna Inez led For some time an unhappy sort of life, Wishing each other not divorced, but dead : They lived respectably as man and wife ; Their conduct was exceedingly
426 페이지 - things that she did. Her favorite science was the mathematical ; Her noblest virtue was her magnanimity ; Her wit (she sometimes tried at wit) was Attic all ; Her serious sayings darkened to sublimity : In short, in all things she was fairly what I call A prodigy. Her morning-dress was dimity ; Her evening, silk ; or, in the summer, muslin, And other
27 페이지 - bind At times the loftiest to the meanest mind,— Have given her power too deeply to instil The angry essence of her deadly will ; If like a snake she steal within your walls, Till the black slime betray her as she crawls ; If like a viper to the heart she wind, And
428 페이지 - will do. Now, Donna Inez had, with all her merit, A great opinion of her own good qualities : Neglect, indeed, requires a saint to bear it ; And such indeed she was in her moralities : But then she had a devil of a spirit, And sometimes mixed up fancies with
120 페이지 - If these things be done in the green tree, what shall be done in the dry ? If the peeress as a wife has no rights, what is the state of the cotter's wife