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| Cabinet - Literature - 1824 - 440 pages
...marriage sends forth ! The violet bed's not sweeter. MIDDLETON. I HAVE often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming...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
...marriage sends forth— The violet hed's not sweeter." Middlcton, HAVE often had occasion to remavk the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortune. Those disasters which hreak down the spirit of a man, and prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies... | |
| Washington Irving - 1829 - 522 pages
...marriage sends forth— The violet bed 's not sweeter! MIDDLE-TON. I HAVE often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortune. Those disasters whiih break down the spirit of a man, and prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies... | |
| Washington Irving - American essays - 1831 - 518 pages
...marriage sends forth— The violet bed 's not sweeter! MlDULETON. I HAVE often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming...energies of the softer sex, and give such intrepidity _and elevation to their character, that at times it approaches to sublimity. Nothing can be more touching,... | |
| 1835 - 616 pages
...that they should receive it and be employed in its service. G. " I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude, with which women sustain the most overwhelming...in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies of women, and give such intrepidity and elevation to their character, that, at times, it approaches to... | |
| Washington Irving - 1835 - 196 pages
...marriage sends forth.... The violet bed's not sweeter. MIDDHTON. I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortune. Those disasters which hreak down the spirit of a man, and prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies... | |
| 1836 - 282 pages
...minister wins fnjr himself a church-going people. DR. CHALMERS. I HAVE often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming...call forth all the energies of the softer sex, and giv« guch intrepidity and elevation to their character that at times i» approaches to sublimity.... | |
| Thomas Harttree Cornish - Women - 1836 - 538 pages
... *.' THE VOLUME OF THE AFFECTIONS; OR, BRIDAL OFFERING. " I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortune. Those disasters which hreak down the spirit of man, and prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies of... | |
| 1839 - 430 pages
...to mini, like some deserted mansion for want of an ia. habitant. I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming...break down the spirit of a man and prostrate him in tho dust, seem to call forth all the energies of the softer sex, and give such intrepidity and elevation... | |
| 1839 - 256 pages
...marriage sends forth—- The violet bed "s not sweeter! MlDDLITOlt. I HAVE often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortune. Those disasters which break uown the spirit of a man, and prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies of 'the... | |
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