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Page iii
... Women , they would fill no important place nor have to do any serious work . They are too seldom assisted to form habits of self - reliance , industry , and thoughtfulness , or to de- vote their mental activity to the acquisition of ...
... Women , they would fill no important place nor have to do any serious work . They are too seldom assisted to form habits of self - reliance , industry , and thoughtfulness , or to de- vote their mental activity to the acquisition of ...
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... Women ! This book , then , has been written with the intention of im- pressing upon every girl that she has a place ... Women have laid upon them the burden of a great trust . ' All women , ' says one of their own sex , ' may not have ...
... Women ! This book , then , has been written with the intention of im- pressing upon every girl that she has a place ... Women have laid upon them the burden of a great trust . ' All women , ' says one of their own sex , ' may not have ...
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... Women , and frankly encouraging our Girls to live a life of lofty aim and great accom- plishment . We want in them the courage to do right , and to suffer , if need be , for the truth ; an active interest in the well- being of others ...
... Women , and frankly encouraging our Girls to live a life of lofty aim and great accom- plishment . We want in them the courage to do right , and to suffer , if need be , for the truth ; an active interest in the well- being of others ...
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... Women- Bulwer Lytton quoted - Elements of True Courtesy - Modesty to be cultivated - What constitutes Immodesty - Sympathy an Essential in Society - Sympathy the nearest Faculty to Genius - Conversation X CONTENTS . in Society - Faults ...
... Women- Bulwer Lytton quoted - Elements of True Courtesy - Modesty to be cultivated - What constitutes Immodesty - Sympathy an Essential in Society - Sympathy the nearest Faculty to Genius - Conversation X CONTENTS . in Society - Faults ...
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... Women a precious National Possession - Familiarity to be repressed -Duties owing to Society - Cheerfulness to be shown , and Readiness to oblige - Carlyle quoted - Sir Arthur Helps quoted - Longfellow's Lines on Maidenhood ' PAGE 57 ...
... Women a precious National Possession - Familiarity to be repressed -Duties owing to Society - Cheerfulness to be shown , and Readiness to oblige - Carlyle quoted - Sir Arthur Helps quoted - Longfellow's Lines on Maidenhood ' PAGE 57 ...
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Page 264 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet ; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food : For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Page 263 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
Page 251 - To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel...
Page 216 - DAFFODILS FAIR Daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon : As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song ; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along.
Page 183 - I were to pray for a taste -which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.
Page 216 - FAIR Daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon ; As yet the early-rising sun Has not attained his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song ; And, having prayed together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay, As you, or anything. We die As your hours do, and dry Away, Like to the summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again.
Page 118 - Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long.
Page 89 - All things to man's delightful use. The roof Of thickest covert was inwoven shade, Laurel and myrtle, and what higher grew Of firm and fragrant leaf ; on either side Acanthus, and each odorous bushy shrub, Fenced up the verdant wall ; each beauteous flower, Iris all hues, roses and jessamine, Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought Mosaic ; underfoot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth, with rich inlay Broidered the ground, more coloured than with stone Of costliest emblem : other creature...
Page 101 - Then the pied windflowers and the tulip tall, And narcissi, the fairest among them all, Who gaze on their eyes in the stream's recess, Till they die of their own dear loveliness...
Page 227 - To seek thee did I often rove Through woods and on the green; And thou wert still a hope, a love; Still longed for, never seen.