 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...  Roberts' Semi-monthly Magazine - Page 551841Full view - About this book
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1822 - 424 pages
...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 sex, and give such intrepidity...weakness and dependence, and alive to every trivial roughD2 ness, while treading the prosperous paths of life, suddenly rising in mental force to be the... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 364 pages
...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 sex, and give such intrepidity...soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and D2 dependence, and alive to every trivial roughness while treading the prosperous paths of life, suddenly... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1824 - 224 pages
...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...soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and dependance, and alive to every trivial roughness, while treading the prosperous paths of life, suddenly... | |
 | John Arliss - 1825 - 382 pages
...disasters which hreak down the spirit of a 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, i hat at times it approaches to suhlimity. Nothing can he more touching than to hehold a soft and lender... | |
 | Bride - 1835 - 134 pages
...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 sex, and give such intrepidity...Nothing can be more touching than to behold a soft and delicate female, who had been all weakness and dependence, and alive to every trivial roughness, while... | |
 | 1835 - 616 pages
...down the spirit of a man, and prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies of women, and give such intrepidity and elevation to their character,...sublimity. " Nothing can be more touching, than to behold a female, who had been all weakness and dependence, and alive to every trivial roughness, while treading... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 196 pages
...and prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies of the softer sex, and give snch intrepidity and elevation to their character, that...times it approaches to sublimity. Nothing can be more tonching than to behold a soft and tender female , who had been all weakness and dependence , and alive... | |
 | Periodicals - 1839 - 272 pages
...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 sex, and give such intrepidity...soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and dependance, and alive to every trivial roughness, while treading the prosperous paths of life, suddenly... | |
 | 1839 - 430 pages
...disasters which break down the spirit of a man and prostrate him in tho dust, seem to call forth all the energies of the softer sex, and give such intrepidity...that at times it approaches to sublimity. Nothing can bo more touching tban to behold a soft ami tender female, who had been all weakness and dependence,... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1839 - 362 pages
...disasters which break down the spirit ot man, and prostrate him in the dust', seem to call forth all the energies of the softer sex', and give such intrepidity...character', that', at times', it approaches to sublimity". Affected Greatness. — IB. 2. We have', it is true', our great m6n in America" : not a city but has... | |
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