 I HAVE often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortune. Those disasters which break down the spirit of a man, and prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies of the softer...  The Ladies' Pearl: A Monthly Magazine - Page 101841Full view - About this book
 | 1820 - 856 pages
...already alluded, commences this sketch; it is an eloquent and a just tribute to the softer sex :— .' ' I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude...call forth all the energies of the softer sex, and give such intrepidity and elevation to their character, that at times it approaches to sublimity. Nothing... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1822 - 424 pages
...the house. What a delicious breath marriage sends forth. . . The violet bed's not sweeter. MlDDtETON. I HAVE often had occasion to remark the fortitude...call forth all the energies of the softer sex, and give such intrepidity and elevation to their character, that at times it approaches to sublimity. Nothing... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 364 pages
...the house. What a delicious breath marriage sends forth. . . The violet bed's not sweeter. MlDDLITON. I HAVE often had occasion to remark the fortitude...call forth all the energies of the softer sex, and give such intrepidity and elevation to their character, that at times it approaches to sublimity. Nothing... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...the house. What a delicious breath marriage sends forth. . . The violet bed's not sweeter. MIDDLETON. I HAVE often had occasion to remark the fortitude...call forth all the energies of the softer sex, and give such intrepidity and elevation to their character, that at times it approaches to sublimity. Nothing... | |
 | Cabinet - Literature - 1824 - 440 pages
...the house. What a delicious breath marriage sends forth ! The violet bed's not sweeter. MIDDLETON. I HAVE often had occasion to remark the fortitude...call forth all the energies of the softer sex, and give such intrepidities and elevation to their character, that at times it approaches to sublimity.... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1824 - 228 pages
...women sustain the most galling reverses of fortune. Those disasters which break down the spirit of man, and prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies of the softer sex, and give such intrepidity and elevation to their character, that at times it approaches to sublimity. Nothing... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1824 - 224 pages
...the two succeeding stanzas originated in the following beautiful passage in the Sketch-Book : — " I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most galling reverses of fortune. Those disasters which break down the spirit of man, and prostrate him... | |
 | John Arliss - 1825 - 382 pages
...marriage sends forth— The violet hed's not sweeter." Middlcton, HAVE often had occasion to remavk the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortune. Those disasters which hreak down the spirit of a man, and prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1829 - 522 pages
...the house. What a delicious breath marriage sends forth— The violet bed 's not sweeter! MIDDLE-TON. I HAVE often had occasion to remark the fortitude...overwhelming reverses of fortune. Those disasters whiih break down the spirit of a man, and prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1830 - 346 pages
...man " of woman born," who was not a Frenchman, or a mountebank, could have done the like. THE WIFE. I HAVE often had occasion to remark the fortitude...call forth all the energies of the softer sex, and give such intrepidity and elevation to their character, that at times it approaches to sublimity. Nothing... | |
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