 But woman's is comparatively a fixed, a secluded, and a meditative life. She is more the companion of her own thoughts and feelings; and if they are turned to ministers of sorrow, where shall she look for consolation! Her lot is to be wooed and won; and...  The Magnolia, Or, Literary Tablet - Page 2711834Full view - About this book
 | 1820 - 856 pages
...and if they are turned to ministers of orrow, where shall she look for consolation ! Her lot is to e wooed and won ; and if unhappy in her love, her heart is ke some fortress that has been captured, and sacked, and bandoned, and left desolate. • How many... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 364 pages
...feelings ; and if they are turned to ministers of sorrow, where shall she look for consolation? Her lot is to be wooed and won ; and if unhappy in her love, her heart is like some fortress that K4 has been captured, and sacked, and abandoned, and left desolate. How many bright eyes grow dim —... | |
 | Thomas O'Connor - English literature - 1824 - 180 pages
...feelings; and if they are turned to ministers of sorrow, where shall she look for consolation ? Her lot is to be wooed and won ; and if unhappy in her love,...grow dim — How many soft cheeks grow pale, how many lovply forms fade away into the tomb, and none can tell the cause that blighted their loveliness. As... | |
 | Tobias Merton (pseud) - 1824 - 476 pages
...feelings ; and if they are turned to ministers of sorrow, where shall she look for consolation ? Her lot is to be wooed and won ; and if unhappy in her love,...captured, and sacked, and abandoned, and left desolate." Book Making is so feithfully described, that one might almost suppose Mr. Irving to be already a proficient... | |
 | 1834 - 638 pages
...if they are turned to ministers of sorrow, where shall she look for consolation ? Her lot is to he wooed and won ; and if unhappy in her love, her heart is like some fortress that has heen captured, sacked, ahandoned, and left desolate. How many hright eyes grow dim, how many soft cheeks... | |
 | 1828 - 400 pages
...feelings; and if they are tnrne* to ministers of sorrow, where shall she look for consolation ? Ret Ic* is to be wooed and won-; and if unhappy in her love,...and abandoned, and left desolate. How many bright' eyesgrowdim — how many soft- cheetts grow pale— ho* many lovely forms' fade away into thetomb,... | |
 | Katherine Augusta Ware - 1828 - 848 pages
...feelings ; and if they are turned to ministers of sorrow, where shall she look for consolation ! Her lot is to be wooed and won ; and if unhappy in her love,...is like some fortress, that has been captured, and abandoned, and left desolate. We recollect to have read some years since, an account of an incident,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1829 - 522 pages
...feelings ; and if they are turned to ministers of sorrow, where shall she look for consolation ? Her lot is to be wooed and won ; and if unhappy in her love,...some fortress that has been captured, and sacked, and abadlftncd, and left desolate. How many bright eyes grow dim — how many soft cheeks grow pale —... | |
 | Tracts - 1830 - 206 pages
...companion of her own thoughts and feelings;" and, if her lord prove false and fickle, her heart is indeed "like some fortress that has been captured, and sacked, and abandoned, and left desolate." Let us exaggerate our own case as we may, we must yet confess that women, among the Asiatics, are much... | |
 | Robert Dale Owen - Free thought - 1830 - 266 pages
...of her own thoughts and feelings ;" and, if her lord prove false and fickle, her heart is indeed " like some fortress that has been captured, and sacked, and abandoned, and left desolate." Let us exaggerate our own case as we may, we must yet confess that women, among the Asiatics, are much... | |
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