Essays: First Series ; Second SeriesAlden, 1892 - 396 pages |
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... Marriage , wherein the speaker is so earnest and cordial and on such deep grounds of character , that the dialogue , on the slightest additional incident in the plot , rises naturally into poetry . Among many texts take the following ...
... Marriage , wherein the speaker is so earnest and cordial and on such deep grounds of character , that the dialogue , on the slightest additional incident in the plot , rises naturally into poetry . Among many texts take the following ...
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... marriage and gives permanence to human society . The natural association of the sentiment of love with the heydey of the blood seems to require that in order to portray it in vivid tints , which every youth and maid should confess to be ...
... marriage and gives permanence to human society . The natural association of the sentiment of love with the heydey of the blood seems to require that in order to portray it in vivid tints , which every youth and maid should confess to be ...
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... marriages with words that take hold of the upper world , whilst one eye is eternally boring down into the cellar ; so ... marriage sig- nifies nothing but a housewife's thrift , and that woman's life has no other aim . But this dream of ...
... marriages with words that take hold of the upper world , whilst one eye is eternally boring down into the cellar ; so ... marriage sig- nifies nothing but a housewife's thrift , and that woman's life has no other aim . But this dream of ...
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... marriage . Passion beholds its object as a perfect unit . The soul is wholly embodied , and the body is wholly ensouled . 66 Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks and so distinctly wrought , That one might almost say her body ...
... marriage . Passion beholds its object as a perfect unit . The soul is wholly embodied , and the body is wholly ensouled . 66 Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks and so distinctly wrought , That one might almost say her body ...
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... marriage , foreseen and prepared from the first , and wholly above their consciousness . Looking at these aims with which two persons , a man and a woman , so variously and correlatively gifted , are shut up in one house to spend in the ...
... marriage , foreseen and prepared from the first , and wholly above their consciousness . Looking at these aims with which two persons , a man and a woman , so variously and correlatively gifted , are shut up in one house to spend in the ...
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