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Page 84 - Blanche is rewarded by a happy marriage to a good man. Wise in her generation, she knew that it was to the stronger sex she must look for counsel, aid, and protection, and it was a comfort unspeakable to feel that he to whose guidance her future life would be submitted, would soon be there — sustaining her by his strength of intellect — solacing her by the softness of his heart.89 "What can mortal woman wish for more?
Page 125 - the worm which dieth not," and " the fire that is not quenched," and " the blackness of darkness for ever," are figurative phrases by which nothing real is intended.
Page 105 - I had rather be a toad and feed upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others
Page 7 - Jeremiah, with a stultified air — for he was becoming almost apoplectic under the excess of his son's good fortune. " God bless my soul, George ! I do congratulate you indeed. Of my consent you did right to entertain no doubt. But what a pity, my dear boy, that female titles of honor are not hereditary ! Lady Emily's sons and daughters will be plain Misters and Miss Downhams after all.
Page 6 - An Earl and a Lady Emily are finesounding things, George," said he. " But I take it that neither one nor t'other would have fallen in our way, if able to maintain themselves in their natural sphere.
Page 74 - You were always a prodigious reasoner," retorts one of Mrs. Gore's fine ladies, on a discursive companion : " / am apt to jump at my conclusions, and seldom find them worse than those to which other people climb on their knees." Schleiermacher affirms women to be even our best teachers in cases requiring quick judgment. In another place he exalts and magnifies the value of that power of judging through the imagination which " women possess in a pre-eminent degree.
Page 102 - ... Catherine Gore (1800-1861), one of the most prolific English novelists of the second quarter of the nineteenth century, is typical of this genre. Blanche, the "diamond," is the good sister, who stays home to nurse her aged parents rather than going to parties. Her self-sacrifice refines her into a "lovely and loving woman — pure as a Roman matron, gifted as a muse and feminine as an English gentlewoman."88 Blanche is rewarded by a happy marriage to a good man.
Page 6 - ... previously unbuttoned his coat. He who had not contemplated without awe having the daughter of some ancient country baronet seated by his fireside, could not at once compass the overpowering idea of becoming father-in-law to a ladyship ! —
Page 6 - Precisely what I should have expected. Your brother is a frivolous, empty jackdaw — a fool, sir, who has no more notion of what is due to his position as the representative of one of the most ancient houses in the kingdom, than if he were the son of a dancing master.
Page 128 - Of those gay creatures of the elements, That in the colors of the rainbow live...