 ... rougher ministrations of terror, and a knowledge that each was the occasion of injury to the other. A woman's heart is peculiarly unfitted to sustain this conflict. Her sensibility gives keenness to her imagination, and she magnifies every peril,...  Lodore, by the author of 'Frankenstein'. - Page 270by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - 1835Full view - About this book
 | Lucy Madox Brown Rossetti - Women authors, English - 1890 - 254 pages
...more than the rough ministrations of terror and the knowledge that each was the occasion of injury. A woman's heart is peculiarly unfitted to sustain...desire to confer happiness, and her peace is wrecked. What stronger expression of feeling could be needed than this, of a woman speaking from her heart and... | |
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...willingly to forego vanity, selfishness, and the exactions of self-will, in unlimited and unregretted exchange. Mutual esteem and gratitude sanctified the...shame. The sense of right adorned the devotion of love. She read approbation in Edward's eyes, and drew near him in full consciousness of deserving it.... | |
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