 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...  The Ladies' Companion - Página 131835Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1820 - 856 páginas
...already alluded, commences this sketch; it is an eloquent and a just tribute to the softer sex :— .' ' 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1820 - 364 páginas
...the house. What a delicious breath marriage sends forth. . . The violet bed's not sweeter. MlDDLITON. 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1822 - 424 páginas
...the house. What a delicious breath marriage sends forth. . . The violet bed's not sweeter. MlDDtETON. 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 páginas
...the house. What a delicious breath marriage sends forth. . . The violet bed's not sweeter. MIDDLETON. 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... | |
 | Cabinet - 1824 - 440 páginas
...the house. What a delicious breath marriage sends forth ! The violet bed's not sweeter. MIDDLETON. 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... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - 1824 - 224 páginas
...the two succeeding stanzas originated in the following beautiful passage in the Sketch-Book : — " I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most galling reverses of fortune. Those disasters which break down the spirit of man, and prostrate him... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1830 - 346 páginas
...man " of woman born," who was not a Frenchman, or a mountebank, could have done the like. THE WIFE. 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... | |
 | 1832 - 410 páginas
...and looks for the full and perfect manifestation of him in his immediate presence. THE WIFE. I HAYE 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... | |
 | 1834 - 506 páginas
...course, Though heiress of a dark and cruel doom, Knows yet a joy beyond each mortal source. AFFECTION. 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1834 - 320 páginas
...house. What a delicious breath marriage sends forth . . . The violet bed 's not sweeter. MIDDLETON. 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... | |
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