The Female Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Best Writers, and Adapted to the Use of Young Women |
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... sense of the author and the har- mony of his periods . Finished versé , particularly , loses half it's charms , when it is only submitted to the eye ; and if Poetry has been divorced from Music , it ought at least to have the music of a ...
... sense of the author and the har- mony of his periods . Finished versé , particularly , loses half it's charms , when it is only submitted to the eye ; and if Poetry has been divorced from Music , it ought at least to have the music of a ...
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... sense is not the ground- work . Words are like leaves , and where they most abound Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found . How different is the view of past life , in the man who is grown old in knowledge and wisdom , from that of ...
... sense is not the ground- work . Words are like leaves , and where they most abound Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found . How different is the view of past life , in the man who is grown old in knowledge and wisdom , from that of ...
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... sense . Virtue is the health of the soul , and cleanliness is the virtue of the body . A virtuous man fights against temptations , and is victo- rious . A virtuous woman comes not within their reach : she must not only be innocent but ...
... sense . Virtue is the health of the soul , and cleanliness is the virtue of the body . A virtuous man fights against temptations , and is victo- rious . A virtuous woman comes not within their reach : she must not only be innocent but ...
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... sense of honour , to hate any one , to dissemble , or to desire any of those things , which need walls or curtains to conceal them . All nature is but art , unknown to thee ; All chance , direction , which though canst not see ¿ All ...
... sense of honour , to hate any one , to dissemble , or to desire any of those things , which need walls or curtains to conceal them . All nature is but art , unknown to thee ; All chance , direction , which though canst not see ¿ All ...
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... sense , and lovely to the eye ; Till at the last a cruel spoiler came , Cropp'd this fair rose , and rifled all it's sweetness ; Then cast it , like a loathsome weed , away . Me let the tender office long engage , To rock the cradle of ...
... sense , and lovely to the eye ; Till at the last a cruel spoiler came , Cropp'd this fair rose , and rifled all it's sweetness ; Then cast it , like a loathsome weed , away . Me let the tender office long engage , To rock the cradle of ...
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Page 282 - Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where, with her best nurse, contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i...
Page 4 - WHO can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
Page 313 - Love is merely a madness ; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip, as madmen do ; and the reason why they are not so punished and cured, is, that the lunacy is so ordinary, that the whippers are in lave too. Yet I profess curing it by counsel.
Page 252 - God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder then that health and virtue, gifts That can alone make sweet the bitter draught That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threaten'd in the fields and groves...
Page 72 - How soft the music of those village bells, Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet, now dying all away, Now pealing loud again, and louder still, Clear and sonorous, as the gale comes on ! With easy force it opens all the cells Where Mem'ry slept.
Page 272 - How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot Eternal sun-shine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd; Labour and rest, that equal periods keep; "Obedient slumbers that can wake and weep"; Desires compos'd, affections ever ev'n; Tears that delight, and sighs that waft to heav'n.
Page 80 - Yet, when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions and a will resign'd ; For love, which scarce collective man can fill; For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat. Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat.
Page 245 - One song employs all nations ; and all cry " Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us-! " The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy ; Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous Hosanna round.
Page 49 - Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe th' enlivening spirit and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Page 252 - Nor less composure waits upon the roar Of distant floods, or on the softer voice Of neighbouring fountain, or of rills that slip Through the cleft rock, and chiming as they fall Upon loose pebbles, lose themselves at length In matted grass, that with a livelier green Betrays the secret of their silent course.