The Lady's Present: Or, Beauties of Female CharacterG.W. Cottrell, 1849 - Всего страниц: 207 A good example of mid-nineteenth century popular literature directed at educating women in proper womanly behavior. |
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Стр. 54 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Стр. 115 - There's a bliss beyond all that the minstrel has told, When two, that are link'd in one heavenly tie, With heart never changing and brow never cold, Love on through all ills, and love on till they die ! One hour of a passion so sacred is worth Whole ages of heartless and wandering bliss ; And oh ! if there be an elysium on earth, It is this, it is this...
Стр. 111 - Still slowly passed the melancholy day, And still the stranger wist not where to stray. The world was sad ! — the garden was a wild ! And man, the hermit, sigh'd— till woman smiled...
Стр. 105 - Yet further may relent : for mightier far Than strength of nerve and sinew, or the sway Of magic potent over sun and star, Is love, though oft to agony distrest, And though his favourite seat be feeble woman's breast. But if thou goest, I follow...
Стр. 115 - But happy they, the happiest of their kind, Whom gentler stars unite, and in one fate Their hearts, their fortunes, and their beings blend. Tis not the coarser tie of human laws, Unnatural oft, and foreign to the mind, That binds their peace ; but harmony itself, Attuning all their passions into love ; Where friendship...
Стр. 112 - tis found to cling Too often round a worthless thing — Oh, woman's love ! at times it may Seem cold or clouded, but it burns With true undeviating ray, Nor ever from its idol turns...
Стр. 9 - Bends o'er the flood his eager ear To catch the sounds far off, yet dear- — Drinks the sweet draught, but knows not why The tear of rapture fills his eye. And can he now, to manhood grown, Tell why those notes, simple and lone, As on the ravished ear they fell...
Стр. 60 - Nor every friend unrotten at the core ; First, on thy friend, deliberate with thyself: Pause, ponder, sift ; not eager in the choice, Nor jealous of the chosen ; fixing, fix : Judge before friendship, then confide till death.
Стр. 50 - Celestial happiness, whene'er she stoops To visit earth, one shrine the goddess finds, And one alone, to make her sweet amends For absent heaven — the bosom of a friend ; Where heart meets heart, reciprocally soft, Each other's pillow to repose divine.