| James Fenimore Cooper - King Philip's War, 1675-1676 - 1829 - 326 pages
...possess the mental helplessness of appearing the most abject fatuity. CHAPTER IX. " I am not prone to weeping, as our sex Commonly are :— But I have...lodged here, which burns Worse than tears drown." Winter's Tale. IF the pen of a compiler, like that we wield, possessed the mechanical power of the... | |
| 1830 - 430 pages
...thinking how appropriatety the language of Hermione would have sounded from her lips : " I am not prone to weeping, as our sex Commonly are ; but I have That honourable grief lodged her*, which burns Worse than tears drown." That these exhibitions of genuine sorrow are not numerous,... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - American fiction - 1833 - 448 pages
...appearing to possess the mental helplessness of the most abject fatuity. CHAPTER IX. " I am not prone to weeping, as our sex Commonly are:— But I have...lodged here, which burns Worse than tears drown." W Winter's Tale. IP the pen of a compiler, like that we wield, possessed the mechanical power of the... | |
| Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Women in literature - 1833 - 362 pages
...prone to weeping as our sex Commonly are, the want of which vain dew Perchance shall dry your pities ; but I have That honourable grief lodged here, which burns Worse than tears drown. But these verbal gentlemen do not seem to have felt that the resemblance is merely on the surface,... | |
| Mrs. S. C. Hall - Crime - 1833 - 246 pages
...prone to weeping as our sex Commonly arc ; the want of which vain dew Perchance shall dryiyour pities; but I have That honourable grief lodged here, which burns Worse than tears drown. deemed the master-stroke of his genius; — and Constance Cecil, the fountain of whose tears was. dried... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1835 - 390 pages
...mental helplessness of the most abject fatuity. CHAPTER XIX. " I am not prone to weeping, as our sex i Commonly are : — But I have That honourable grief...lodged here, which burns Worse than tears drown." • Winter's Tale. scenes of this legend, as rapidly and effectively as is required for its right understanding,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1838 - 484 pages
...to weeping, as our sex Commonly are ; the want of which vain dew, Perchance, shall dry your pities; but I have That honourable grief lodged here, which burns Worse than tears drown. 13 — ii. 1. 214 O how her eyes and tears did lend and borrow ! Her eyes seen in the tears, tears... | |
| Sid Smith - Phrenology - 1838 - 246 pages
...prone to weeping, as our sex Commonly are; the want of which vain dew Perchance shall dry your pities; but I have That honourable grief lodged here, which burns Worse than tears drown." Dr. Burrows observes, " Joy, however, is more likely to occasion sudden insanity, than grief; because... | |
| William Shakespeare, Thomas Price - 1839 - 480 pages
...to weeping, as our sex Commonly are ; the want of which vain dew, Perchance, shall dry your pities ; but I have That honourable grief lodged here, which burns Worse than tears drown. 13 — ii. 1. 214 O how her eyes and tears did lend and borrow ! Her eyes seen in the tears, tears... | |
| John Frederick Boyes - 1842 - 332 pages
...bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the Lord was strong upon me. Ezekiel iii. 14. I have That honourable grief lodged here, which burns Worse than tears drown. Winter's Tale, act ii. sc. 1. (But the word may also here imply "courageous.") 1148 Aaífiшv inrepßapr¡ч... | |
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