 | Washington Irving - 1901 - 216 pàgines
...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 blasts of adversity. 1 Thomas Middleton (about 1570—1627), an English dramatist. The above selection is from his play... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1901 - 538 pàgines
...weakness and dependence, and alive to every trivial roughness, while treading the prosperous paths 10 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 blasts... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1902 - 204 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 - 1903 - 814 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 - 1906 - 472 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... | |
 | Frederick William Allsopp - 1907 - 298 pàgines
...sketch of "The Wife," wherein he says : "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 be comforter and support of her husband under misfortune, and abiding, with unshrinking firmness, the... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - 1923 - 208 pàgines
...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 blasts of adversity." Decorum perhaps was never the real god of women; that form of worship was forced upon them by their... | |
 | Kirsten E. Wood - 2004 - 308 pàgines
...than to behold a soft and tender female, who had been all meekness and dependence, and alive to every roughness, while treading the prosperous paths of...comforter and supporter of her husband under misfortune, abiding with unshrinking firmness the bitterest blasts of adversity." These attitudes made slaveholding... | |
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Nothing can be more touching than to behold a soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and dependence, and alive to every trivial roughness, while treading the prosperous paths of life, suddenly rising in mental force to be the comforter and... 
