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2502 4| wind,~ ~ The tougher yew repels invading foes,~ ~ And the 2503 12| may, for such a constant repetition of the same thing must be 2504 2| and, instead of severely reprehending the transient effusions 2505 2| affections as those that represent him abundant in mercy and 2506 5| With the same view she represents an accomplished young woman, 2507 3| heroism by misfortunes, she represses the first faint dawning 2508 5| very ready to convert this reproach into a compliment; their 2509 3| system. She can never be reproached for being masculine, or 2510 5| many women, who are still reproaching their husbands for leaving 2511 4| the sexes, which I have reprobated; and that coquetry more 2512 12| neither afraid of being reproved for their presumption, nor 2513 8| heedlessly nurtured the insidious reptile till it poisoned the vital 2514 9| polished society that noisome reptiles and venomous serpents lurk 2515 12| preferable to that rough and repulsing reason, which always finds 2516 3| feet and hands, without requiring very minute direction from 2517 1| shewn themselves heroes to rescue their oppressors.~ ~ Disgusted 2518 6| intuitive that it baffles research, and makes us at a loss 2519 11| which we inspire always resembles that we cultivate; so that 2520 13| change, or punish out of resentment? He - the common father, 2521 7| when in her presence.* So reserved is affection that, receiving 2522 12| spite of sensual cavillers, reserves to itself the privilege 2523 12| polluted in the national reservoir, sends off streams of vice 2524 5| though his virtues, rather residing in his head than his heart, 2525 3| softened sorrow into melancholy resignation, her heart turns to her 2526 4| to maintain their power, resigned the natural rights, which 2527 2| courtier, who servilely resigns the birthright of a man, 2528 7| vehemently to insist on their resisting temptation?' - Thus when 2529 4| d;~ ~ The sheltering oak resists the stormy wind,~ ~ The 2530 2| armies can never consist of resolute, robust men; they may be 2531 13| in it, and may mostly be resolved into selfishness, as well 2532 7| side the grave! - And what resource hast thou in an enervated 2533 4| and women who have so few resources in themselves, do not very 2534 1| I am Sir,~ ~ Your's respectfully,~ ~ 2535 12| melody has almost suspended respiration, a lady has asked me where 2536 9| only considering him as responsible, she is reduced to a mere 2537 12| looking into the heart, and responsively vibrating with each emotion, 2538 5| sex, how has he for ever restored to them all those to which 2539 13| mother concur, the father who restrains will ever be considered 2540 5| which they are so eager to retail, they maintain them with 2541 13| meretricious scenes, all retailed in a sentimental jargon, 2542 2| allowed her constitution to retain its natural strength, and 2543 12| to the relicks of popery retained in our colleges, when the 2544 1| do themselves justice by retaliation.~ ~ The box of mischief 2545 12| state of society, did not retard its expansion, or render 2546 1| would advance, instead of retarding, the progress of those glorious 2547 4| these situations equally retards the progress of reason. 2548 6| longer be repaired. They have retired from the noisy scenes of 2549 6| reformation, as well as his retirement, actually makes them wretched 2550 6| like the tradesman who retires from the hurry of business, 2551 7| eye, the rosy blush, the retiring grace, are all proper in 2552 4| frequently with full conviction retorted Pope's sarcasm on them; 2553 12| are obliged to submit to, retorting on their oppressors, the 2554 2| sex has ever been held, it retorts on man. The many have always 2555 6| to cool our sensations, retraces them with mechanical exactness.~ ~ 2556 7| afford modesty that tranquil retreat, where she delights to dwell, 2557 13| whom would the secret be revealed by immediate inspiration? 2558 13| allow their imagination to revel in the unnatural and meretricious 2559 2| the flowers of the day and revelling in pleasure, the solid fruit 2560 12| to domineer over them to revenge the insults that they are 2561 13| Supreme Judge partial and revengeful.~ ~ Is he a man that he 2562 13| answer this question - to reverend old men, to people distinguished 2563 8| in the pure sentiment of reverential adoration, that swells the 2564 8| must silently indulge the reverie these reflections lead to, 2565 4| cemented by time. The very reverse may be said of love. In 2566 5| both is in that respect reversed. Women certainly require 2567 4| enervate all his powers by reversing the order of nature, which 2568 2| passions. In fact, if we revert to history, we shall find 2569 1| attack human authority, are reviled as despisers of God, and 2570 1| when your constitution is revised the Rights of Woman may 2571 6| sportive child, naturally revolt. Without taste, excepting 2572 5| insulted, and instead of revolting at injustice, kiss the rod? 2573 12| seem to start up, as great revolutions occur, at proper intervals, 2574 8| being one of the natural rewards of virtue, however, took 2575 5| signifies it,' pursues this rhapsodist, 'to women, that his reason 2576 2| with all the graces of rhetoric, advise them to submit implicitly 2577 2| they* kindly restore the rib, and make one moral being 2578 4| twist lappets, and knot ribands, is frequently superficial; 2579 2| speaking, one of Adam's ribs, the deduction must be allowed 2580 1| near his heart-~ ~ * Dr. [Richard] Price.~ ~ After attacking 2581 4| depend on her will.~ ~ When Richardson* makes Clarissa tell Lovelace 2582 12| public place to another, richly caparisoned. Yet, mixing 2583 6| reformed, he cannot quickly get rid of old habits. When a man 2584 13| endeavoured to throw its rider, till at last it sullenly 2585 13| history, how foolishly and ridiculously they caricatured human nature, 2586 8| the eternal rule of right. Righteous are all his judgments - 2587 5| their own hearts, and act rightly, as far as they can judge, 2588 4| French women, who are not so rigidly nailed to their chairs to 2589 12| because they instantly become rigorous, and to save themselves 2590 9| face and ripen amidst the rigours which purify the air on 2591 9| that has muddied the pure rills of natural affection, by 2592 5| are the changes which he rings round without ceasing - 2593 8| rich sensualist, who has rioted among women, spreading depravity 2594 12| bashfulness, which might have ripened into modesty, at home.~ ~ 2595 7| sentiment has frequently risen spontaneously in my mind, 2596 8| same element. Humanity thus rises naturally out of humility, 2597 5| questions, we should run a risk of never speaking to them 2598 12| on their morals, and as a ritual performed by the lips, when 2599 12| subsistence; and, when so many rival schools hang out their lures, 2600 13| additional force, perpetual rivalships should ensue? They are all 2601 9| hand may at the very moment rivet their chains, by sanctioning 2602 3| itself to the body, and, roaming round its gilt cage, only 2603 7| who sets the table in a roar!~ ~ This is one of the many 2604 5| serious consequences ensue to rob man of that portion of happiness, 2605 4| tell Lovelace that he had robbed her of her honour, he must 2606 4| manners been reared, which robs the whole sex of its dignity, 2607 9| useful than the perusal of romances, if read as mere biography; 2608 1| conquering the world, the Romans never dreamed of establishing 2609 13| crush Carthage, not to save Rome, but to promote its vain-glory; 2610 12| spirit kill the letter. These Romish customs have the most baneful 2611 3| shame, will always be a romp, and the doll will never 2612 7| fair! The downcast eye, the rosy blush, the retiring grace, 2613 4| born only to procreate and rot. Or, granting brutes, of 2614 1| much, and that a measure rotten at the core may be expedient. 2615 12| taste, and the harlot's rouge will supply the place of 2616 4| To loftier forms are rougher tasks assign'd;~ ~ The sheltering 2617 Int| shall not waste my time in rounding periods, or in fabricating 2618 9| who pay for the support of royalty when they can scarcely stop 2619 5| the world now appear? - I rub my eyes and think, perchance, 2620 4| into absolute brutality, by rubbing off the rough angles of 2621 13| principles, and clearing away the rubbish which obscured them. But, 2622 12| creates affection in the rude hut, or mud hovel, and leads 2623 5| entreated to pardon the rudeness and depart in peace, though 2624 5| Chastity! Thou wretch! thou ruffian! forbear; nor venture to 2625 13| each others lappets and ruffles.' And very natural is it - 2626 5| fixed, and vanity has long ruled her chaotic mind?~ ~ But 2627 1| tumult, which obliges their rulers to gloss over their oppression 2628 5| go back to nature, or his ruling appetite disturbed the operations 2629 8| mind to retire to till the rumour be overpast; nay, the darts 2630 7| virtue.~ ~ In the same strain runs Rousseau's and Dr. Gregory' 2631 12| domestic affections, very early rush into the libertinism which 2632 2| extraordinary women who have rushed in eccentrical directions 2633 4| body the mind is left to rust; so that while physical 2634 12| the female faculties have rusted when such a small portion 2635 9| keep their faculties from rusting.~ ~ I know that, as a proof 2636 12| the youth who receives the sacrament of the Lord's supper, to 2637 5| deliberations of men, how sacredly has he established the empire 2638 1| parasite or vile pander.~ ~ Sailors, the naval gentlemen, come 2639 12| fond of home for their own sakes. Yet, the vacations, which 2640 11| reason?~ ~ After observing sallies of this kind, I have been 2641 2| In what light this sally places men and women, I 2642 8| the sex - devoted for the salvation of the rest. But, false 2643 12| giving the parents some sample of the boys abilities, which 2644 5| of experience, before the sapling has thrown out its leaves, 2645 4| never yet been placed.~ ~ * Sappho, Eloisa, Mrs. Macaulay, 2646 11| of passion, or the silent sapping of self-love. But it is 2647 2| detain a deceitful good that saps the very foundation of virtue? 2648 4| conviction retorted Pope's sarcasm on them; or to speak explicitly, 2649 6| For instance, the severest sarcasms have been levelled against 2650 3| Milton tremble when he led Satan far from the confines of 2651 2| with conscious dignity, or Satanic pride, turned to hell for 2652 6| exhausted by lust, and that the sated appetite, losing all relish 2653 2| the twinkling of a mere satellite. Milton, I grant, was of 2654 Int| writers who endeavour by satire or instruction to improve 2655 6| understandings, they should not be satirized for their attachment to 2656 8| intended that women, by satisfying an appetite, should frustrate 2657 4| frolick of yours during the Saturnalia, when the slaves are served 2658 5| wine, descanting on the sauces most proper for turtle; 2659 7| obscurity to shut out even the saucy sparkling sunbeams. Yet, 2660 13| sway, are the passions of savages; the passions that occupy 2661 8| money which should have been saved for their helpless younger 2662 13| for all the hardly earned savings of a slave are commonly 2663 3| insult to common sense, and savour of passion. The divine right 2664 3| the sword's destroying the scabbard has become almost proverbial, 2665 3| It is not impious thus to scan the attributes of the Almighty: 2666 8| particular action; but it is scarce possible that he should 2667 12| chance, remember the poor scare-crow of an usher, whom he tormented; 2668 10| father, who is held up as a scarecrow. When chastisement is necessary, 2669 13| exceptions, they follow the same scent with all the persevering 2670 2| man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends 2671 4| contrary, have no other scheme to sharpen their faculties. 2672 7| occupied by gay pleasures or schemes to conquer hearts.* The 2673 12| things be remedied whilst school-masters depend entirely on parents 2674 12| establishments, for whilst schoolmasters are dependent on the caprice 2675 4| preserve his own peace, scold the servants, and go to 2676 11| servant, 'My mama has been scolding me finely this morning, 2677 9| rank, that the numerous scramblers for wealth sacrifice every 2678 12| superstitious memory have scraped together. No, wise in their 2679 9| sympathetic emotion, when the scraping of the well known foot has 2680 2| evident from philosophers scrupling to give the knowledge most 2681 13| may still keep her person scrupulously neat, and assist to maintain 2682 1| command, like the waves of the sea; for the strong wind of 2683 7| shut with an everlasting seal! On reading similar passages 2684 7| modesty of mien. His eye searcheth the heart; and let her remember, 2685 8| pleasures that are not highly seasoned by hope or fear.~ ~ Sometimes 2686 13| which she had learned whilst secluded from the world, and afraid 2687 5| venture to assert, that preys secretly, like the worm in the bud, 2688 13| have been enrolled amongst sectaries; yet, I assert, that the 2689 7| cleanliness, which some religious sects have, perhaps, carried too 2690 11| on which a duty can rest securely: for unless it be founded 2691 7| thought, that wandering with sedate step in some lonely recess, 2692 7| modesty - though a dignified sedateness of deportment may have succeeded 2693 4| safe bed-fellow, that they seduce their own wives. - Hymen 2694 5| broad shoulders of the first seducer of my frail sex.~ ~ 'It 2695 4| not appear; yet when a man seduces a woman, it should, I think, 2696 4| of women caused the word seduction to be used as an excuse 2697 11| parents.~ ~ The parent who sedulously endeavours to form the heart 2698 5| from a creature when the seed-time of life is neglected? None - 2699 8| The humble mind that seeketh to find favour in His sight, 2700 | seeming 2701 8| that Being views us who seeth each thought ripen into 2702 1| or lord it over them by seizing the triple crown!~ ~ Such, 2703 12| however, the mechanical selection of limbs and features; but 2704 4| that sensibility, of which self is the centre, and reason 2705 7| because humility is a kind of self-abasement.~ ~ A modest man often conceives 2706 8| During the still hour of self-collection the angry brow of offended 2707 3| of life, yet recline with self-complacency on a sofa, and boast of 2708 11| sense, or the instinct of self-defence, peculiar to ignorant weakness; 2709 5| the Supreme Being, who is self-existent, there is nothing beautiful 2710 4| proportion of reflection and self-government, they only inspire love; 2711 5| principle of conduct, drawn from self-knowledge, and a rational opinion 2712 12| swelled by the blunders of self-willed old women, who give nostrums 2713 13| convenient expedient of selling masses for souls in purgatory, 2714 12| mostly educated at these seminaries, and will any one pretend 2715 9| soldiers, or wrangle in the senate to keep their faculties 2716 10| takes it from a nurse to send it to a school?~ ~ In the 2717 12| fulfilled their duty, by sending some good scholars to college.~ ~ 2718 12| is mischief; and of the senior, vice. Besides, in great 2719 13| averse to duty, by such a senseless intercourse, which becomes 2720 1| clear, though not to the sensitive unreflecting wanderer, that 2721 7| remember to have met with a sentence, in a book of education, 2722 9| useless parade of having sentinels on horseback at Whitehall, 2723 13| let them be immured in seraglios and watched with a jealous 2724 12| ranked with them; or, by the serpentine wrigglings of cunning they 2725 9| noisome reptiles and venomous serpents lurk under the rank herbage; 2726 2| proved that the courtier, who servilely resigns the birthright of 2727 5| which we do not appear to be setting them a task, but obliging 2728 4| matter. Refined seventy times seven, they are still material; 2729 13| infer, is fixed before their seventh year, the period during 2730 4| sensation or matter. Refined seventy times seven, they are still 2731 5| sense, most voluptuously shadowed or gracefully veiled - And 2732 12| the recollection of some shady lane where they conned their 2733 5| trivial incident: the reed is shaken by a breeze, and annually 2734 8| sun to shine on all. Yet, shaking hands thus as it were with 2735 3| must have had iron frames. Shakspeare never grasped the airy dagger 2736 | shalt 2737 7| they were only bashful, shame-faced innocents; and losing their 2738 7| losing their innocence, their shame-facedness was rudely brushed off; 2739 8| present indulgence. The shameful indolence of many married 2740 13| passion, which lead them shamefully to neglect the duties of 2741 13| before the imagination, shaped their persons as well as 2742 9| all before it, into the shapeless void called - eternity. - 2743 3| pretend arbitrarily to judge, shaping it to their own convenience.~ ~ 2744 4| fashions and faults without sharing their advantages. With respect 2745 11| frequently seen a little sharp-faced miss rule a whole family, 2746 3| if the faculties are not sharpened by necessity, they must 2747 9| literally speaking, a den of sharpers or oppressors.~ ~ There 2748 12| the rich.~ ~ The lady who sheds tears for the bird starved 2749 12| disgusted by that awkward sheepishness so natural to the age, which 2750 4| rougher tasks assign'd;~ ~ The sheltering oak resists the stormy wind,~ ~ 2751 5| for granted, that virtue shields us from the casualties of 2752 12| family, the evil is only shifted, not remedied.~ ~ This train 2753 8| Quietly does the clear light, shining day after day, refute the 2754 4| youth, till twenty, the body shoots out, till thirty the solids 2755 4| trimmings, not to mention shopping, bargain-hunting, &c. &c.: 2756 8| watching the rising sun, a soft shower drizzling through the leaves 2757 5| way to fix principles by showing young people that they are 2758 3| features; for it has been shrewdly observed by a German writer, 2759 5| fervent adoration at the shrine of beauty. So devout, indeed, 2760 4| reason alone points out, and shrinking from trials calculated to 2761 7| squeamish delicacy which shrinks from the most disgusting 2762 9| silken wings are instantly shrivelled up when any thing beside 2763 7| he would probably have shrunk back irresolute, afraid 2764 13| reflections should make you shudder at your thoughtlessness, 2765 9| for he has still but to shuffle and trick. The whole system 2766 5| in life are marred by the shuffling worldly wisdom of men, who, 2767 7| it wishes, not only to shun the human eye, as a kind 2768 4| talks of the misfortune that shunned the light of day.~ ~ Most 2769 12| girls to their needle, and shutting them out from all political 2770 7| distinguished from rustic shyness or wanton skittishness; 2771 12| My very soul has often sickened at observing the sly tricks 2772 4| did not strike us on all sides, to observe, how eager men 2773 5| wants experience,' says Sidney.~ ~ Let me now as from an 2774 Int| depressed my spirits, and I have sighed when obliged to confess, 2775 12| pursuing this idle routine, sighing for tasteless shew, and 2776 8| men, to excite respectful sighs, and all the idle homage 2777 2| the grandest of all human sights, - for fancy quickly placed, 2778 12| negligence, &c. might be made, if signed by six of the children's 2779 5| a young encomiast. 'What signifies it,' pursues this rhapsodist, ' 2780 10| sanctioning innovation, silences the hiss of selfishness 2781 9| sense of the words, its silken wings are instantly shrivelled 2782 7| which makes Diana with her silver crescent, the goddess of 2783 4| in the discharge of the simplest duty, we are often obliged 2784 1| rights and duties of man thus simplified, it seems almost impertinent 2785 9| trusts are then considered as sinecures, because they were procured 2786 1| and rigour are the very sinews of military discipline; 2787 5| read, though he equally sinned against sense and taste.~ ~ 2788 5| breach of duty, without sinning against the order of things.~ ~ 2789 4| catch the pleasure that sits lightly on the wing of time.~ ~ ' 2790 13| women are very differently situated with respect to each other - 2791 13| foreseeing, that after fifty or sixty years of feverish existence, 2792 4| materials. A man of her own size of understanding would, 2793 3| constantly making of all sizes, and always the wrong way. 2794 12| childish routine. A disgusting skeleton of the former state is still 2795 5| with a poetic writer, who skilfully exhibits the objects of 2796 7| rustic shyness or wanton skittishness; and, so far from being 2797 1| to first principles, vice skulks, with all its native deformity, 2798 12| that shoot athwart a dark sky, and disappear as they are 2799 5| up her doll, to make its sleeve-knots, its flounces, its head-dress, & 2800 Int| flowery diction which has slided from essays into novels, 2801 5| Medicean Symmetry, that was not slighted? be neglected, she will 2802 4| remedied, I am afraid, in the slightest degree; should a more laudable 2803 13| novel writers of the day, slighting as insipid the sober dignity 2804 5| attention of others for the slights of her husband!'~ ~ These 2805 12| indolent slugs, who guard, by sliming it over, the snug place, 2806 7| respect for the glove or slipper of his mistress. He could 2807 1| when they cannot catch the slippery graces, of politeness. Every 2808 5| life; and that fortune, slipping off her bandage, will smile 2809 13| passion in affected tones slips for ever from their glib 2810 12| day perform in the most slovenly manner a service which they 2811 12| boys become gluttons and slovens, and, instead of cultivating 2812 12| apprehensive timidity of indolent slugs, who guard, by sliming it 2813 13| having been exercised, its slumbering energies rest inactive, 2814 12| sickened at observing the sly tricks practised by women 2815 5| incapable of lifting the smallest burthens, and would blush 2816 12| of the good stories and smart things which enliven the 2817 7| all the mischief, and this smoke heats the imagination by 2818 9| merely fitting drapery upon a smooth block, their minds are only 2819 8| may not sometimes obtain a smoother reputation than a wiser 2820 7| admiration - lovely! - Thou that smoothest the wrinkles of wisdom, 2821 12| gown, or any pretty bawble, smooths Juno's angry brow.~ ~ But 2822 12| thoughtless use. Macbeth's heart smote him more for one murder, 2823 6| superinductions of art that have smothered nature.~ ~ Every thing that 2824 12| private support, instead of smothering, public affections, they 2825 13| the punishment of sin, snaps the thread of life.~ ~ Here 2826 12| for the bird starved in a snare, and execrates the devils 2827 2| lash at which it dare not snarl. Abject as this picture 2828 2| they learn is rather by snatches; and as learning is with 2829 12| women attained, who have sneeringly been termed learned women, 2830 3| must, regardless of the sneers of ignorance, proceed on 2831 12| by sliming it over, the snug place, which they consider 2832 2| man when he can no longer soar on the wing of contemplation.~ ~ 2833 4| of life over, we look for soberer sense in the face, and for 2834 5| the dawn of life, we could soberly survey the scenes before 2835 13| like a tallow candle in the socket, creating intolerable disgust. 2836 12| by conversations, in the socratic form.~ ~ After the age of 2837 3| with self-complacency on a sofa, and boast of her want of 2838 7| wrinkles of wisdom, and softenest the tone of the sublimest 2839 7| interesting every virtue it softens, giving mild grandeur to 2840 3| sentiment; too often used as a softer phrase for sensuality. It 2841 9| female bosoms. - But fair and softly, gentle reader, male or 2842 10| amour propre. L'amour de soi meme.~ ~ Parental affection, 2843 8| principal bodies of the solar system.~ ~ I will then venture 2844 12| who has thus been wisely solicitous to preserve the health of 2845 4| shoots out, till thirty the solids are attaining a degree of 2846 2| speaketh; and a wiser than Solomon hath said, that the heart 2847 13| God, or assisted by the solver of all these kind of difficulties - 2848 | somewhere 2849 13| should always make to his son-in-law on his wedding day, that 2850 4| reckoned most valuable? Yet sonic degree of liberty of mind 2851 5| has no idea? She can only sooth or chide them; render them 2852 5| their attention incredibly soothing? 'As a small degree of knowledge 2853 9| is agitated he may dip a sop in the milk of human kindness, 2854 1| rights, is one of the absurd sophisms which daily insult common 2855 9| self-denial. Hereditary property sophisticates the mind, and the unfortunate 2856 3| eloquence and philosophical sophistry: for his eloquence renders 2857 6| limbs and produce a sickly soreness, rather than delicacy of 2858 Int| most melancholy emotions of sorrowful indignation have depressed 2859 7| And, though I should be sorry to contaminate an innocent 2860 1| and knowledge rendered a sounding nothing, by the specious 2861 3| strength of body, - natural soundness of constitution, - not that 2862 12| blossoms of hope, are turned sour, and vented in vain wishes 2863 12| temper, which is very early soured or irritated by tyranny, 2864 4| Account of the Isles of the South-Sea, that will explain my meaning. 2865 4| virtue, are their masters and sovereigns.'~ ~ Ah! why do women, I 2866 12| every affection should be sown, and the respectful regard, 2867 5| chains, and fawn like the spaniel? 'These dogs,' observes 2868 4| neither tears nor caresses are spared till the spy is worked out 2869 2| almost carry us back to Spartan discipline? Is this the 2870 1| scarcely human - the brutal Spartans, who, in defiance of justice 2871 2| abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh; and a wiser than Solomon 2872 4| reason has never given any specific gravity, neutrality ensues. 2873 5| cannot be seen by an unmoved spectator, we must mix in the throng, 2874 4| nature, apparently reasonable speculations must yield. A further conclusion 2875 5| an art not so early and speedily attained. While girls are 2876 5| passion, and that powerful spell worked on the sensibility 2877 12| which he probably afterwards spends in some sensual manner? 2878 4| which they neither toil nor spin; but health, liberty, and 2879 4| they ought to have been spinning a top or twirling a hoop.~ ~ * 2880 5| declamatory periods Dr. Fordyce spins out Rousseau's eloquence; 2881 13| despairing plunges of a spirited filly, which I have seen 2882 10| neglects her children, or spoils them by improper indulgence. 2883 4| understanding has often been spoken of with contempt, as arriving 2884 8| not with impunity to be sported with, for the practised 2885 2| are playing, or animals sporting,* whilst the contemplation 2886 6| from which they and love, sportive child, naturally revolt. 2887 7| into humanity; - thou that spreadest the ethereal cloud that, 2888 6| surely will, to turn the sprightly lover into a surly suspicious 2889 4| bashful modesty; but, the spring-tide of life over, we look for 2890 5| depart in peace, though sprinkled, perhaps, with her husband' 2891 4| away. Losing thus every spur, and having no other means 2892 1| clouded reason, and such spurious qualities have assumed the 2893 8| the libertine whilst she spurns the victims of his lawless 2894 13| to heroism, unless when spurred on by love! and love, as 2895 2| moral world. Passions are spurs to action, and open the 2896 7| so. I do not forget the spurts of activity which sensibility 2897 4| caresses are spared till the spy is worked out of her home, 2898 9| and suffering his light squadron to file off to the other 2899 11| sufficient strength to resist the squalls of passion, or the silent 2900 8| domestic duty; nay, even squandering away all the money which 2901 4| civilize life, than the square-elbowed family drudge; but, wanting 2902 7| terrors stand,~ ~ Nor from his squeeze withdraws her hand,~ ~ She 2903 5| is despicable. When a man squeezes the hand of a pretty woman, 2904 2| of his soul, Eloisa, love St. Preux, when life was fading 2905 5| virtue.~ ~ The Baroness de Stael speaks the same language 2906 4| no exertion can wash this stain away. Losing thus every 2907 13| of human nature, work up stale tales, and describe meretricious 2908 6| will reign, like some other stalking mischiefs, by its own authority, 2909 4| commonly granted.~ ~ The stamen of immortality, if I may 2910 5| that docility, which fear stamps on the behaviour, often 2911 5| affectionate heart, will never want starched rules of decorum - something 2912 2| women go astray,~ ~ 'The stars are more in fault than they.'~ ~ 2913 7| guarding, lured thee, thou startest from thy dream only to face 2914 4| do we hear of women who, starting out of obscurity, boldly 2915 4| contradictory emotions. By fits and starts they are warm in many pursuits; 2916 12| conscientious man, would starve before he could raise a 2917 12| sheds tears for the bird starved in a snare, and execrates 2918 12| are not at home, and the state-rooms, garden, &c. must be kept 2919 9| the historic page.~ ~ The statesman, it is true, might with 2920 9| by becoming soldiers and statesmen.~ ~ As soldiers, I grant, 2921 9| them to fill respectable stations? But in order to render 2922 12| the materials which the statuary found in nature, and thus 2923 12| opinion that the Grecian statues were not modelled after 2924 12| should a husband offend, by staying from home, or give rise 2925 4| been substituted in its stead.~ ~ * This word is not strictly 2926 7| the balmy gale of spring stealing on me, though november frowns.~ ~ 2927 13| conversing with their maids by stealth, till they were brought 2928 11| it, a reasonable man must steel himself against; for the 2929 1| his opinions have been so steeped in the vat consecrated by 2930 4| mount with him the arduous steeps of knowledge?-~ ~ Yet, if 2931 Int| designation.~ ~ I wish also to steer clear of an error which 2932 1| idiotism into the noble stem, and holds out baits to 2933 5| supposed to have acted like a step-mother, when she formed this after-thought 2934 7| flowery lawns, and heedlessly stepping over the precipice to which 2935 4| founded on property, or sterling talents, will ever sweep 2936 12| members seem to be such sticklers for the established church; 2937 5| of fashion, which seldom sticks very close to sense, may 2938 Int| over-stretched feelings, stifling the natural emotions of 2939 12| further, and a sensible woman stigmatized as an unnatural mother, 2940 1| to support his system, he stigmatizes, as vicious, every effort 2941 12| their lesson; or, of some stile, where they sat making a 2942 12| nature has spread a sublime stillness through my soul, I have 2943 5| when she is merely made the stilts of reputation; and respected, 2944 4| propriety, with a small stipend, and an uncultivated mind, 2945 12| boys were not allowed to stir off the walk, and that the 2946 7| void, or sweet perfume, stolen from the violet, that memory 2947 1| formation of the teeth, stomach, and intestines, Rousseau 2948 2| as for the philosopher's stone, or the grand panacea: and 2949 2| and fortitude, the corner stones of all human virtue, should 2950 9| farm, managed a shop, and stood erect, supported by their 2951 5| tumbled from a throne to a stool.~ ~ Madame Genlis has written 2952 5| is ten to one but you are stopped by the philosophical assertion, 2953 5| a rock against which the storms of passion vainly beat.~ ~ 2954 4| sheltering oak resists the stormy wind,~ ~ The tougher yew 2955 5| that if they could walk straight forward they should at last 2956 5| right nor left - it is a straightforward business, and they who are 2957 13| have seen breaking on a strand: its feet sinking deeper 2958 3| where her imagination often strays.~ ~ I think I see her surrounded 2959 7| dawn of immortality, in the streaks that shoot athwart the misty 2960 5| her character should be stretched or contracted, regardless 2961 4| consent! This excess of strictness I have heard vindicated 2962 8| earth, the other with bold stride mounts to heaven, and claims 2963 13| more understanding.~ ~ One striking instance of the folly of 2964 6| harp a little on an old string, having been solely employed 2965 9| to appear as one of the stripes of the harlequin coat, worn 2966 5| chivalrous spirit; and, if the stroke of vengeance cannot be stayed - 2967 5| religion and virtue offer no stronger motives, no brighter reward? 2968 5| said; but the artificial structure has been raised with so 2969 4| employed in rearing such noble structures. To rise in the world, and 2970 5| view of life; he must have struggled with his own passions before 2971 6| understanding, and yet so stubborn, that the associations which 2972 9| sweat supports the splendid stud of an heir apparent, or 2973 8| esteems herself, when she studiously adorns her person only to 2974 5| a more equal tenderness; studying their humours, overlooking 2975 7| philosopher - but of such stuff is human rapture made up! - 2976 12| understanding, are equally stunted, for parents are often only 2977 4| base has been given to this stupendous fabric, and the wayward 2978 12| pace with steady deportment stupidly backwards and forwards, 2979 9| or the indolent calm that stupifies the good sort of women it 2980 3| the discharge of them, I sturdily maintain, must be the same.~ ~ 2981 10| been defined to stop the sturdy innovator's hand.~ ~ Woman, 2982 1| authority pushes the crowd of subalterns forward, they scarcely know 2983 3| if the world, divided and subdivided into kingdoms and families, 2984 3| armed the weak, in order to subdue the strong.' - Rousseau' 2985 3| closed, may still see how she subdues every wayward passion to 2986 5| naturally excited by the subject-~ ~ In declamatory periods 2987 Int| cannot pass it over without subjecting the main tendency of my 2988 2| pride, turned to hell for sublimer objects. In the same style, 2989 7| softenest the tone of the sublimest virtues till they all melt 2990 12| first, than for a hundred subsequent ones, which were necessary 2991 1| intercourse which has long subsisted between the sexes. It is 2992 5| duty, and we conclude by substituting a jargon of words, in the 2993 3| accountable, would puzzle the subtilest casuist.~ ~ The only solid 2994 7| sedateness of deportment may have succeeded the playful, bewitching 2995 7| of his own strength, till success gives it a sanction that 2996 3| hath given him. The most successful method of exciting them, 2997 4| object can only be felt in succession. The vain fears and fond 2998 4| tenacity, piteously demanding succour; and their natural protector 2999 4| with cooler approbation suck in the instruction which 3000 8| poisoned the vital stream it sucked? Can I, conscious of my 3001 9| delight at seeing his child suckled by its mother, than the 3002 9| her husband, and neither suckles nor educates her children,