The Secret of Long LifeH.S. King, 1871 - 145 páginas |
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... becomes an Ophelia in order to adorn her dishevelled tresses with flowers shall not be permitted to turn Rosalind for the sake of the doublet and hose . The English drama is a great possession , which we who are its inheritors treat too ...
... becomes an Ophelia in order to adorn her dishevelled tresses with flowers shall not be permitted to turn Rosalind for the sake of the doublet and hose . The English drama is a great possession , which we who are its inheritors treat too ...
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... this is illustrated by the vulgar agitation in favour of permitting widowers to marry their de- ceased wives ' sisters . A man chooses a wife of eighteen or twenty , who in ten years becomes The Marriage of Completion . 39.
... this is illustrated by the vulgar agitation in favour of permitting widowers to marry their de- ceased wives ' sisters . A man chooses a wife of eighteen or twenty , who in ten years becomes The Marriage of Completion . 39.
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Edward James Mortimer Collins. of eighteen or twenty , who in ten years becomes worn out altogether , in mind and in body ; while her unmarried sister , who has been allowed to mature to the age of thirty , is a much more agreeable ...
Edward James Mortimer Collins. of eighteen or twenty , who in ten years becomes worn out altogether , in mind and in body ; while her unmarried sister , who has been allowed to mature to the age of thirty , is a much more agreeable ...
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... become a woman until she is a wife , does not develop her true character . As I have written else- where , this is prefigured in the stories of Pygmalion and of Undine . Every marriage of completion is also a marriage of creation : the ...
... become a woman until she is a wife , does not develop her true character . As I have written else- where , this is prefigured in the stories of Pygmalion and of Undine . Every marriage of completion is also a marriage of creation : the ...
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... becomes his wife he will find in her new beauty and intellect and goodness , daily developing under his hand , as the statue grows to perfection in the marble . What there is excellent in him will become hers , though in a softened and ...
... becomes his wife he will find in her new beauty and intellect and goodness , daily developing under his hand , as the statue grows to perfection in the marble . What there is excellent in him will become hers , though in a softened and ...
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The Secret of Long Life [By E.J.M. Collins] Edward James Mortimer Collins Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
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Página 32 - It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear. A lily of a day Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be.
Página 94 - And lose to-morrow the ground won to-day — Ah ! do not we, wanderer ! await it too ? Yes, we await it! — but it still delays, And then we suffer! and amongst us one, Who most has suffer'd, takes dejectedly His seat upon the intellectual throne; And all his store of sad experience he Lays bare of wretched days...