Victoria Magazine, Volume 32Emily Faithfull, 1879 |
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... woman , and often and often would I walk alone by the sea , making companions of the melancholy waves , in mournful envy of other girls of my age , whom I saw caressed and praised by a fond father , while I had none to cling to under ...
... woman , and often and often would I walk alone by the sea , making companions of the melancholy waves , in mournful envy of other girls of my age , whom I saw caressed and praised by a fond father , while I had none to cling to under ...
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... woman . now I must take myself off , I have so many to call upon . I make sure I can reckon upon you , dear Mrs. Fortescue , and as for that little minx , she may make a great match yet ; dress her , dress her ! " ' My grandmother ...
... woman . now I must take myself off , I have so many to call upon . I make sure I can reckon upon you , dear Mrs. Fortescue , and as for that little minx , she may make a great match yet ; dress her , dress her ! " ' My grandmother ...
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... woman who should win from him such delicate , tender caresses . He was not married ! That flashed upon me ; and should I marry now ? I broke away from the profaning touch , resolved to suffer it no more . This was no longer a matter of ...
... woman who should win from him such delicate , tender caresses . He was not married ! That flashed upon me ; and should I marry now ? I broke away from the profaning touch , resolved to suffer it no more . This was no longer a matter of ...
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... Woman seldom does reject love that is true . He should have persevered , and then he might have won me , and enjoyed his fancy ; I might have lived to content the world - if not myself — a happy woman without a history , and not now be ...
... Woman seldom does reject love that is true . He should have persevered , and then he might have won me , and enjoyed his fancy ; I might have lived to content the world - if not myself — a happy woman without a history , and not now be ...
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... woman's , in the honourable way of marriage , which could not , therefore , be postponed . His mother had found a girl answering all requirements for his wife with four times the sum . So it was put to me at once to say " Yea or nay ...
... woman's , in the honourable way of marriage , which could not , therefore , be postponed . His mother had found a girl answering all requirements for his wife with four times the sum . So it was put to me at once to say " Yea or nay ...
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Page 223 - Twere now to be most happy, for I fear My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Page 454 - This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main, — The venturous bark that flings On the sweet summer wind its purpled wings In gulfs enchanted, where the siren sings, And coral reefs lie bare, Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl; Wrecked is the ship of pearl!
Page 454 - Where the cold sea-maids rise to sun their streaming hair. Its webs of living gauze no more unfurl ; Wrecked is the ship of pearl ! And every chambered cell, Where its dim dreaming life was wont to dwell, As the frail tenant shaped his growing shell, Before thee lies revealed, — Its irised ceiling rent, its sunless crypt unsealed ! Year after year beheld the silent toil That spread his lustrous coil...
Page 444 - ORDER is Heaven's first law ; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense.
Page 444 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Page 455 - Child of the wandering sea; Cast from her lap, forlorn! From thy dead lips a clearer note is born Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horn! While on my ear it rings, Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings: Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
Page 455 - Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll ! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
Page 493 - to erect, maintain and conduct a College for the higher education of women" ; and "to take such steps as from time to time may be thought most expedient and effectual to obtain for the Students of the College admission to the examinations for degrees of the University of Cambridge ; and generally to place the College in connection with that University.
Page 472 - So enraptured was I with the idea of acting this part, and so fearful of anything preventing me, that I did not tell the manager I had no dresses, until it was too late for me to be prevented from acting it; and the day before the performance, after rehearsal, I told him. He immediately sat down and wrote a note of introduction for me to the tragedienne of the French Theatre, which then employed some of the best among French artists for its company. This note was to ask her to help me to costumes...
Page 296 - So they to each other kept clinging, and clung, While Time his swift circuit was winging and wung ; And this was the thing he was bringing and brung : The man Sally wanted to catch, and had caught ; That she wanted from others to snatch, and had snaught ; Was the one she now liked to scratch, and she scraught.