 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...  The Ladies' Pearl: A Monthly Magazine - Pàgina 101841Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1820 - 856 pàgines
...already alluded, commences this sketch; it is an eloquent and a just tribute to the softer sex :— .' ' I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude...call forth all the energies of the softer sex, and give such intrepidity and elevation to their character, that at times it approaches to sublimity. Nothing... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1822 - 424 pàgines
...the house. What a delicious breath marriage sends forth. . . The violet bed's not sweeter. MlDDtETON. I HAVE often had occasion to remark the fortitude...call forth all the energies of the softer sex, and give such intrepidity and elevation to their character, that at times it approaches to sublimity. Nothing... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1820 - 364 pàgines
...the house. What a delicious breath marriage sends forth. . . The violet bed's not sweeter. MlDDLITON. I HAVE often had occasion to remark the fortitude...call forth all the energies of the softer sex, and give such intrepidity and elevation to their character, that at times it approaches to sublimity. Nothing... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pàgines
...the house. What a delicious breath marriage sends forth. . . The violet bed's not sweeter. MIDDLETON. I HAVE often had occasion to remark the fortitude...call forth all the energies of the softer sex, and give such intrepidity and elevation to their character, that at times it approaches to sublimity. Nothing... | |
 | Cabinet - 1824 - 440 pàgines
...the house. What a delicious breath marriage sends forth ! The violet bed's not sweeter. MIDDLETON. I HAVE often had occasion to remark the fortitude...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.... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - 1824 - 228 pàgines
...women sustain the most galling 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 sex, and give such intrepidity and elevation to their character, that at times it approaches to sublimity. Nothing... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - 1824 - 224 pàgines
...the two succeeding stanzas originated in the following beautiful passage in the Sketch-Book : — " I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most galling reverses of fortune. Those disasters which break down the spirit of man, and prostrate him... | |
 | John Arliss - 1825 - 382 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...the house. What a delicious breath marriage sends forth— The violet bed 's not sweeter! MIDDLE-TON. I HAVE often had occasion to remark the fortitude...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 - 1830 - 346 pàgines
...man " of woman born," who was not a Frenchman, or a mountebank, could have done the like. THE WIFE. I HAVE often had occasion to remark the fortitude...call forth all the energies of the softer sex, and give such intrepidity and elevation to their character, that at times it approaches to sublimity. Nothing... | |
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