| Amos Dean - 1834 - 266 pages
...aware of this, when he makes his King Lear thus announce one excellency of his favorite Cordelia. " Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low— an excellent thing in woman." 33. Language.. . The organ of this faculty is a developement of Cerebrum in the posterior, upper part... | |
| Robert Macnish - 1834 - 236 pages
...risk with them, than with the others. What says King Lear of his beloved daughter, Cordelia ? — " Her voice was ever soft, Gentle and low ; an excellent thing in woman." Su Jtjun&rrti anti The English have obtained the reputation of being the most suicidal nation in Europe.... | |
| Kenelm Henry Digby - 1835 - 592 pages
...sentim of these daughters of faith, to each of whom might applied Lear's description of Cordelia, " Her voice was ever soft, Gentle and low ; an excellent thing in woman." Mar)' Cajetane Agnesi, after distinguishing herself am mathematicians, chose to hide her literary glories... | |
| Woman - 1835 - 758 pages
...tongue !" And our great dramatist beautifully and more naturally has said, in another place : — " Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low,— an excellent thing in womtm ! " KINO LEAR. * Clarendon. § 13. — We scarce know whether we may venture to speak in the... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1836 - 534 pages
...her ; now she's gone forever ! Cordelia, Cordelia, stay a little. Ha ! What is't thou say'st ? — Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low ; an excellent thing in woman. — I killed the slave that was a-hanging thee. Off. 'Tis true, ray lords, he did. Lear. Did I not,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1838 - 484 pages
...burn. 34 — ii. 4. 605 Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth. 34 — i. 1 . 606 Her voice was ever soft, Gentle and low ; an excellent thing in woman. 34— v. 3. 607 There 's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple : If the ill spirit have so fair a... | |
| William Shakespeare, Thomas Price - 1839 - 478 pages
...burn. 34 — ii. 4. 60S Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth. 34 — i. 1. 606 Her voice was ever soft, Gentle and low ; an excellent thing in woman. 34— v. 3. 607 There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple : If the ill spirit have so fair a house,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1841 - 312 pages
...saved her; now she 'a gone for Cordelia, Cordelia, stay a little. — Ha ! What is 't thou say'st ? — Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low ; an excellent thing in woman. — I kill'd the slave that was a hanging thee. Off. 'Tis true, my lords, he did. Lear. Did I not,... | |
| Sacred cabinet - 1841 - 222 pages
...convey my readers whither I did not go, and to complete a picture of the Seven Churches. 8HAKSPERE. Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low ; — an excellent thing in woman. 3 £>oul longing for MARIA DE FLEURZ. YE angels who stand round the throne, And view my Emmanuel's... | |
| 1841 - 730 pages
...in herself, though the heroine of the novel portion, all the attractions under the sun ; for though her voice was ' ever soft, gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman/ she had no pretensions to beauty, and belonged only to the subordinate class of ' countenances which... | |
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