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ALEXANDER POPE ALFRED TENNYSON angels animal ANONYMOUS AROUET DE VOLTAIRE beautiful BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BRUYÈRE CHARLES CALEB COLTON CHARLOTTE BRONTË CHRISTINA G devil DINAH EDNA LYALL EDWARD BULWER LYTTON ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING eyes feeling fool FRANÇOIS MARIE AROUET FREDERICK WOLTMANN FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE genius GEORGE ELIOT GEORGE SAND girls heart heaven HENRI FRÉDÉRIC AMIEL HONORÉ DE BALZAC HUMPHRY WARD husband JANE AUSTEN JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU JEAN PAUL RICHTER JOHANN WOLFGANG JOHN CASPAR LAVATER JOHN OLIVER HOBBES LILIAN BELL live lover MADAME DE STAËL MADAME LE STRANGE man's MARIA EDGEWORTH MARIE CORELLI marriage marry MARTHA EVERTS HOLDEN MAX NORDAU MEN'S MULOCK nature never NICOLAS CHAMFORT passion PROVERB RALPH WALDO EMERSON RICHARD LE GALLIENNE ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT ROCHEFOUCAULD ROSSETTI SÉBASTIEN ROCH NICOLAS SHAIKH SADI Snob things THOMAS CARLYLE thou thought vanity virtue virtuous wife WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE wise wives WOLFGANG VON GOETHE woman women young youth ZANGWILL
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Page 17 - As the husband is, the wife is: thou art mated with a clown, And the grossness of his nature will have weight to drag thee down. He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.
Page 18 - Elamites," flock hither, and do naturally fall in with one or other of these primary distinctions. The infinite superiority of the former, which I choose to designate as the great race, is discernible in their figure, port, and a certain instinctive sovereignty. The latter are born degraded.
Page 193 - He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and...
Page 52 - In the spring a fuller crimson comes upon the robin's breast; In the spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest; In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
Page 45 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can...
Page 144 - It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
Page 28 - Yes, it is even so : this is no vain phrase ; it is veritably so. The essence of our being, the mystery in us that calls itself "I," — ah, what words have we for such things? — is a breath of Heaven; the Highest Being reveals himself in man. This body, these faculties, this life of ours, is it not all as a vesture for that Unnamed? "There is but one Temple in the Universe," says the devout Novalis, "and that is the Body of Man.
Page 147 - Men some to business, some to pleasure take ; But every woman is at heart a rake : Men some to quiet, some to public strife ; But every lady would be queen for life.
Page 22 - Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command, A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill, A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man.
Page 65 - ... is borne to the demands of his own nature, by the poor clansman, the poor partisan, who rejoices in the glory of his chief! The poor and the low find some amends to their immense moral capacity, for their acquiescence in a political and social inferiority. They are content to be brushed like flies from the path of a great person...