Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World: To which are Added Rules for Determining the Precise Figure, the Degree of Beauty, the Habits, and the Age of Women, Notwithstanding the Aids and Disguises of DressT. Abbot, 1841 - 216 strán (strany) |
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Strana 15
... Harem . There are their graces and charms entombed . The circle of their life extends not beyond their own family and domestic duties . Their first care is to educate their children ; and a numerous posterity is their most fervent wish ...
... Harem . There are their graces and charms entombed . The circle of their life extends not beyond their own family and domestic duties . Their first care is to educate their children ; and a numerous posterity is their most fervent wish ...
Strana 16
... harem , the mistress rises , takes her hand , presses it to her bosom , kisses , and makes her sit down by her side ; a slave hastens to take her black mantle ; she is entreated to be at ease , quits her veil , and discovers a floating ...
... harem , the mistress rises , takes her hand , presses it to her bosom , kisses , and makes her sit down by her side ; a slave hastens to take her black mantle ; she is entreated to be at ease , quits her veil , and discovers a floating ...
Strana 17
... harem , the husband must not enter . It is the asylum of hospitality , and cannot be violated without fatal consequen- ces ; a cherished right , which the Egyptian women carefully maintain , being interested in its preservation . A ...
... harem , the husband must not enter . It is the asylum of hospitality , and cannot be violated without fatal consequen- ces ; a cherished right , which the Egyptian women carefully maintain , being interested in its preservation . A ...
Strana 18
... harem of any of his subjects ; and the subject , on whose prerogative he thus encroaches , so far from exerting his usual jealousy , thinks himself highly honored by such a visit . A laughable story , on this subject , is told 18 ...
... harem of any of his subjects ; and the subject , on whose prerogative he thus encroaches , so far from exerting his usual jealousy , thinks himself highly honored by such a visit . A laughable story , on this subject , is told 18 ...
Strana 38
... harem , and appropriated entirely to his pleasure . Nothing less than un- limited power in the husband is able to restrain women so confined , from the utmost disorder and confusion . They may repine in secret , but they must clothe ...
... harem , and appropriated entirely to his pleasure . Nothing less than un- limited power in the husband is able to restrain women so confined , from the utmost disorder and confusion . They may repine in secret , but they must clothe ...
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Strana 136 - Hail, wedded love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise, of all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driven from men, Among the bestial herds to range; by thee, Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother, first were known.
Strana 6 - She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules; Charms by accepting, by submitting sways, Yet has her humour most when she obeys...
Strana 58 - Whose bright succession decks the varied year; Whatever sweets salute the northern sky With vernal lives, that blossom but to die; These here disporting own the kindred soil, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil; While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land.
Strana 103 - The vexatious life arises from a conjunction of two people of quick taste and resentment, put together for reasons well known to their friends, in which especial care is taken to avoid (what they think the chief of evils) poverty, and ensure to them riches, with every evil besides. These good people live in a constant constraint before company, and too great familiarity alone.
Strana 57 - Whatever fruits in different climes are found, That proudly rise, or humbly court the ground ; Whatever blooms in torrid tracts appear, Whose bright succession decks the varied year ; Whatever sweets salute the northern sky With vernal lives, that blossom but to die ; These here disporting own the kindred soil, Nor ask...
Strana 213 - O, why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heaven With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of Nature, and not fill the world at once With men as angels without feminine, Or find some other way to generate Mankind...
Strana 58 - To winnow fragrance round the smiling land. But small the bliss that sense alone bestows, And sensual bliss is all the nation knows. In florid beauty groves and fields appear ; Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. Contrasted faults through all his manners reign : Though poor, luxurious ; though submissive, vain ^ Though grave, yet trifling ; zealous, yet untrue ; And e'en in penance planning sins anew.
Strana 103 - The marriage life is always an insipid, a vexatious, or a happy condition. The first is, when two people of no genius or taste for themselves meet together, upon such a settlement as has been thought reasonable by parents and conveyancers, from an exact valuation of the land and cash of both parties. In this case the young lady's person is no more regarded than the house and the improvements in purchase of an estate ; but she goes with her fortune, rather than her fortune with her.
Strana 136 - Here love his golden shafts employs, here lights His constant lamp, and waves his purple wings, Reigns here and revels...
Strana 58 - While nought remain'd of all that riches gave, But towns unmann'd, and lords without a slave — And late the nation found, with fruitless skill, Its former strength was but plethoric ill. Yet, still the loss of wealth is here supplied By arts, the splendid wrecks of former pride : From these the feeble heart and long-fallen mind An easy compensation seem to find.