Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 158
... affection con- trived to give a witchcraft surpassing the deep at- traction of its own truth to a parcel of accidental and trivial circumstances . In looking backward , they may find that several things which were not the charm have ...
... affection con- trived to give a witchcraft surpassing the deep at- traction of its own truth to a parcel of accidental and trivial circumstances . In looking backward , they may find that several things which were not the charm have ...
Page 165
... affection , as the sun puts out the fire by shining on the hearth , they become pure and hallowed . By conversation with that which is in itself excellent , magnanimous , lowly , and just , the lover comes to a warmer love of these ...
... affection , as the sun puts out the fire by shining on the hearth , they become pure and hallowed . By conversation with that which is in itself excellent , magnanimous , lowly , and just , the lover comes to a warmer love of these ...
Page 166
... affection of human nature , by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a housewife's thrift , and that woman's life has no other aim . But this dream of love , though beautiful , is only one scene in our play . In the procession of ...
... affection of human nature , by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a housewife's thrift , and that woman's life has no other aim . But this dream of love , though beautiful , is only one scene in our play . In the procession of ...
Page 168
... appear and re- appear , and continue to attract ; but the regard changes , quits the sign , and attaches to the substance . This repairs the wounded affection . Meantime , as life wears on , it proves a game of permutation 168 ESSAY V.
... appear and re- appear , and continue to attract ; but the regard changes , quits the sign , and attaches to the substance . This repairs the wounded affection . Meantime , as life wears on , it proves a game of permutation 168 ESSAY V.
Page 170
... affections are but tents of a night . Though slowly and with pain , the objects of the affections change , as the objects of thought do . There are moments when the affections rule and absorb the man , and make his happiness dependent ...
... affections are but tents of a night . Though slowly and with pain , the objects of the affections change , as the objects of thought do . There are moments when the affections rule and absorb the man , and make his happiness dependent ...
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