| Timothy Stone Pinneo - 1847 - 502 pàgines
...at times, it approaches to sublimity. Nothing can be more touching, than to behold a soft and tender female, •who had been all weakness and dependence,...abiding, with unshrinking firmness, the bitterest blast of adversity. As the vine, which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak, and been... | |
| Washington Irving - 1848 - 478 pàgines
...at times it approaches to sublimity. Nothing can be more touching than to behold a soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and dependence,...suddenly rising in mental force to be the comforter and support of her husband under misfortune, and abiding, with unshrinking firmness, the bitterest blasts... | |
| Washington Irving - 1848 - 482 pàgines
...at times it approaches to sublimity. Nothing can be more touching than to behold a soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and dependence,...suddenly rising in mental force to be the comforter and support of her husband under misfortune, and abiding, with unshrinking firmness, the bitterest blasts... | |
| Washington Irving - 1848 - 550 pàgines
...at times it approaches to sublimity. Nothing can be more touching than to behold a soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and dependence,...suddenly rising in mental force to be the comforter and support of her husband under misfortune, and abiding, with unshrinking firmness, the bitterest blasts... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - 1849 - 348 pàgines
...times, it approaches to sublimity. 2. Nothing can be more touching, than to behold a soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and dependence,...misfortune, and abiding, with unshrinking firmness, the most bitter blasts of adversity. 3. As the vine, which has long twined its graceful foliage about the... | |
| Washington Irving - 1849 - 278 pàgines
...at times it approaches to sublimity. Nothing can be more touching than to behold a soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and dependence,...suddenly rising in mental force to be the comforter and support of her husband under misfortune, and abiding, with unshrinking firmness, the bitterest blasts... | |
| Washington Irving - 1849 - 544 pàgines
...at times it approaches to sublimity. Nothing can be more touching than to behold a soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and dependence,...suddenly rising in mental force to be the comforter and support of her husband under misfortune, and abiding, with unshrinking firmness, the bitterest blasts... | |
| Washington Irving - 1849 - 278 pàgines
...at times it approaches to sublimity. Nothing can be more touching than to behold a soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and dependence,...paths of life, suddenly rising in mental force to he the comforter and support of her husband under misfortune, and abiding, with imshrinking firmness,... | |
| 1856 - 1270 pàgines
...soft aud tender female, who haa been all weakness and dependence, and alive to every trivial annoyance while treading the prosperous paths of life, suddenly rising in mental force to be the comforter and support of her husband under misfortune, and abiding with unshrinking firmness the bitterest blast... | |
| 1850 - 642 pàgines
...vanity may tell us, it is better to please in conversation than to shine in it. hold a soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and dependence,...abiding, with unshrinking firmness, the bitterest blast of adversity — Irving. REASON AND KINDNESS. — The language of reason, unaccompanied by kindness,... | |
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