 But a woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world : it is there her ambition strives for empire ; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure : she embarks her whole soul...  Littell's Living Age - Page 4571863Full view - About this book
 | Frederick William Morton - 1894 - 224 lehte
...never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. A WOMAN'S whole life is the history of the affections. The heart is her world ; it is there her ambition strives for empire. WASHINGTON IRVING. WOMEN never lie more astutely than when they tell the truth to those who do not... | |
 | Louis Klopsch - 1896 - 382 lehte
...must ever be offeerd, and from whom noue are to be obtained. — RICHTER. A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world;...affection; and, 'if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless, forit is a bankruptcy of the heart. — WASHINGTON IRVING. A woman impudent and mannish grown Is not... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1896 - 416 lehte
...fortune, for space in the world's thought, and dominion over his fellow-men. But a woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world:...adventure; she embarks her whole soul in the traffic of 70 affection ; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopelet-s — for it is a bankruptcy of the heart. To... | |
 | 1897 - 308 lehte
...murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes. — Goldsmith. A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world...is hopeless, for it is a bankruptcy of the heart. — Washington Irving. I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the... | |
 | Arnold Tompkins - 1897 - 376 lehte
...bosom, which, when once kindled, become impetuous, and are sometimes desolating in their effects." 8. " She sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks...hopeless — for it is a bankruptcy of the heart." 9. " Her lithe mind winds itself with surprising grace through the metaphysical and other intricacies... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1897 - 554 lehte
...fortune, for space in the world's thought, and dominion over his fellow-men. But a woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world ; it is there her ambition strives for empire — k is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure... | |
 | William Jay Youmans - 1900 - 814 lehte
...delusions is similar to that in affairs of the heart. Washington Irving says of this feminine attribute: " She sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks...is hopeless, for it is a bankruptcy of the heart." More mathematics and science, and less philosophy and psychology, might correct that vagueness of thought... | |
 | William Williams - 1890 - 360 lehte
...the pleasures of society — to shrink with me into indigence and obscurity. 3. The heart is woman's world ; it is there her ambition strives for empire;...sends forth her sympathies on adventure ; she embarks he1 whole soul in the traffic of affection ; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless — for it is... | |
 | G. F. Monkshood - 1900 - 202 lehte
...There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass. Shakespeare. A woman's whole life is the history of the affections. The heart is her world ; it is there her ambition strives for empire. Washiiigton Irving. Women never lie more astutely than when they tell the truth to those who do not... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1901 - 546 lehte
...fortune, for space in the world's thought, and dominion over his fellow-men. But a woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world...avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her 5 sympathies on adventure ; she embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection ; and if shipwrecked,... | |
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