 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 364 pages
...reverses of fortune. Those disasters which break down the spirit of a man, and prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies of the softer...Nothing can be more touching than to behold a soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and D2 dependence, and alive to every trivial roughness while... | |
 | Washington Irving - American literature - 1821 - 320 pages
...reverses of fortune. Those disasters which break down the spirit of a man, and prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies of the softer...Nothing can be more touching than to behold a soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and dependence, and alive to every trivial roughness, while... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...reverses of fortune. Those disasters which break down the spirit of a man, and prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies of the softer...Nothing can be more touching than to behold a soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and dependence, and alive to every trivial roughness, while... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1824 - 228 pages
...reverses of fortune. Those disasters which break down the spirit of man, and prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies of the softer...Nothing can be more touching than to behold a soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and dependance, and alive to every trivial roughness, while... | |
 | Cabinet - Literature - 1824 - 440 pages
...reverses of fortune. Those disasters which break down the spirit of a man, and prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies of the softer sex, and give such intrepidities and elevation to their character, that at times it approaches to sublimity. Nothing can... | |
 | John Arliss - 1825 - 382 pages
...the I softer sex, and give such intrepidity aml I elevation to their character, that at times it I approaches to sublimity. Nothing can be more touching than to behold a soft and lender female, who had been all weakness and dependence, and alive to every trivial roughness, while... | |
 | John Pierpont, Edmund Henry Barker - 1829 - 382 pages
...reverses of fortune. Those disasters, which break down the spirit of a man, and prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies of the softer...Nothing can be more touching than to behold a soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and dependence, and * [Tacitus, Germ, 8. " Memoriae proditnr... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1829 - 522 pages
...reverses of fortune. Those disasters whiiii break down the spirit of a man, and prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies of the softer sex, and give sudi ii-.i .'. •> -pidity and elevation to their character, that at times it approaches to sublimity.... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1830 - 346 pages
...reverses of fortune. Those disasters which break down the spirit of a man, and prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies of the softer...Nothing can be more touching than to behold a soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and dependence, and alive to every trivial roughness, while... | |
 | Ebenezer Bailey - Readers - 1832 - 420 pages
...reverses of fortune. Those disasters, which break down the spirit of a man, and prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies of the softer...Nothing can be more touching, than to behold a soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and. dependence, and alive to every trivial roughness, while... | |
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I HAVE often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortune. Those disasters which break down the spirit of a man, and prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies of the softer... 
