The Life of the Honourable Mrs. Norton

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H. Holt, 1909 - 312 Seiten
 

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Seite 78 - And thine was many an art to win and bless, The cold and stern to joy and fondness warming; The coaxing smile, the frequent soft caress, The earnest, tearful prayer all wrath disarming! Again my heart a new affection found, But thought that love with thee had reached its bound. At length thou earnest — thou, the last and least, Nicknamed "The Emperor...
Seite 6 - Stifling thy grief, to hear some weary task, Conn'd by unwilling lips, with listless air; Hoarding thy means, lest future need might ask More than the widow's pittance then could spare. Hidden, forgotten by the great and gay, Enduring sorrow, not by fits and starts, But the long self-denial, day by day, Alone amidst thy brood of careless hearts...
Seite 128 - Court, and never was such a revolution seen in anybody's occupations and habits. Instead of indolently sprawling in all the attitudes of luxurious ease, he is always sitting bolt upright ; his free and easy language, interlarded with " damns," is carefully guarded and regulated with the strictest propriety, and he has exchanged the good talk of Holland House for the trivial, laboured, and wearisome inanities of the Royal circle.
Seite 78 - THOU, my merry love ; — bold in thy glee, Under the bough, or by the firelight dancing, With thy sweet temper, and thy spirit free, Didst come, as restless as a bird's wing glancing, Full of a wild and irrepressible mirth, Like a young sunbeam to the...
Seite 149 - The wild and stupid theories advanced by a few women of ' equal rights ' and ' equal intelligence ' are not the opinion of their sex. I, for one (I, with millions more), believe in the natural superiority of man, as I do in the existence of God. The natural position of woman is inferiority to man.
Seite 247 - Not that my sufferings or my deserts are greater than theirs ; but that I combine, with the fact of having suffered wrong, the power to comment on and explain the cause of that wrong ; which few women are able to do. For this, I believe, God gave me the power of writing. To this I devote that power. I abjure all other writing, till I see these laws altered. I care not what ridicule or abuse may be the result of that declaration.
Seite 242 - I really suffered the extremity of earthly shame without deserving it (whatever chastisement my other faults may have deserved from heaven). I really lost my young children — craved for them, struggled for them, was barred from them, — and came too late to see one who had died a painful and convulsive death, except in his coffin. I really have gone through much that, if it were invented, would move you, — but being of your every-day world, you are willing it should sweep past like a heap of...
Seite 127 - I have no doubt he is passionately fond of her as he might be of his daughter if he had one, and the more because he is a man with a capacity for loving without having anything in the world to love.
Seite 81 - The man-servant came to my sister's, and said "something was going wrong at home;" that the children, with their things, had been put into a hackney-coach and taken away, he did not know where. I had the children traced to Miss Vaughan's house, and followed them. Anything like the bitter insolence of this woman — who thought she had baffled and conquered me for life — I never experienced. She gave vent to the most violent and indecent answers to my reproaches, and said that if I troubled her...
Seite 217 - On Saturday I dined and went to the play with Mrs. Norton, which sounds gay, but which is as saddening a way of passing an evening as I could find. Her society is saddening to me in itself, so glorious a creature to look at even as she is — so transcendent formerly, and now so faded in beauty and foundered in life. She went to see a play called Victorine...

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