The Friendships of WomenAs manifested by this book, there was an acceptance and understanding of the existence of close, intimate relationships among women in Victorian America. |
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admiration affection affectionate Anna Seward ardent attachment Ballanche beautiful beloved Bettine blessed breath brother celebrated character Charles Lamb charm Chateaubriand child Countess daughter dear death delight devotion divine dreams Duchess duty earnest earth Eugénie de Guérin exalted experience exquisite eyes faithful fame father feel female fond friendship gave genius gifted glowing grace Grace Aguilar Günderode happy heart heaven honor human intercourse interest Joanna Baillie Ladies of Llangollen Lady letters lives Llangollen Lucasia Madame de Sévigné Madame de Staël Madame Récamier Madame Swetchine marriage Mary memory ment mind moral mother nature ness never noble parents passion perfect persons Platonic love poem pure queen relation reverence romance Saint says sentiment side sister solitude sorrow soul spirit sweet sympathy tears tenderness thee thing thou thought tion truth unhappy union verses wife WILLIAM ROUNSEVILLE ALGER woman women worth writes wrote
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Page 229 - Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
Page 42 - As one who held herself a part Of all she saw, and let her heart Against the household bosom lean, Upon the motley-braided mat Our youngest and our dearest sat, Lifting her large, sweet, asking eyes, Now bathed within the fadeless green And holy peace of Paradise.
Page 143 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee : for whither thou goest, I will go ; and where thou lodgest I will lodge : thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: " Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 32 - The Blessing of my later years Was with me when a boy : She gave me eyes, she gave me ears ; And humble cares, and delicate fears ; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears ; And love, and thought, and joy.
Page 37 - I feel almost at times as I have felt In happy childhood ; trees, and flowers, and brooks, Which do remember me of where I dwelt Ere my young mind was sacrificed to books, Come as of yore upon me, and can melt My heart with recognition of their looks ; And even at moments I think I could see Some living thing to love — but none like thee.
Page 74 - I am in presence of either father or mother, whether I speak, keep silence, sit, stand or go, eat, drink, be merry or sad, be sewing, playing, dancing or doing anything else, I must do it as it were in such weight, measure and number even so perfectly as God made the world or else I am so sharply taunted, so...
Page 75 - God made the world ; or else I am so sharply taunted, so cruelly threatened, yea presently sometimes with pinches, nips, and bobs, and other ways which I will not name for the honor I bear them, so without measure misordered, that I think myself in hell till time come that I must go to Mr.
Page 151 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate.
Page 75 - But ah ! by constant heed I know How oft the sadness that I show Transforms thy smiles to looks of woe, My Mary ! And should my future lot be cast With much resemblance of the past, Thy worn-out heart will break at last — My Mary ! W.
Page 10 - Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth in them than heaven ; And if there be a human tear From passion's dross refined and clear, A tear so limpid and so meek, It would not stain an angel's cheek, 'Tis that which pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head...