Lives of Girls who Became FamousThomas Y. Crowell & Company, 1886 - 347 pages |
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Adam Bede admirable artist asked beautiful became Beecher better Bonheur Boston brother called child Coppet daughter death delight dress earnest educated Elizabeth Elizabeth Fry England face fame father feel Florence flowers fond friends gave George Eliot George Henry Lewes gifted girl hand happy Harriet Harriet Beecher Stowe heart honor hundred Ingelow interest Jean Ingelow Lady Brassey learned Lewes Little Women lived Livermore London look Lucretia Mott Madame de Staël Margaret Margaret Fuller MARIA MITCHELL marriage married Mary Lyon Matthew Vassar mind Miss Alcott Miss Evans Miss Hosmer Miss Mitchell mother Napoleon Necker never night noble once Ossoli painting Paris person poems poor pupils received Rome Rosa Rosa Bonheur says seemed sent sister soon story teacher thing thought thousand dollars took visited wife woman women write wrote young
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Page 208 - Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints...
Page 64 - I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).
Page 209 - For me, my heart that erst did go Most like a tired child at a show, That sees through tears the mummers leap, Would now its wearied vision close, Would childlike on His love repose Who giveth His beloved sleep. And friends, dear friends, when it shall be That this low breath is gone from me, And round my bier ye come to weep, Let one most loving of you all, Say, " Not a tear must o'er her fall ! He giveth His beloved sleep.
Page 158 - After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate; I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life.
Page 208 - First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And ever since, it grew more clean and white, Slow to world-greetings, quick with its ' Oh, list,' When the angels speak. A ring of amethyst I could not wear here, plainer to my sight, Than that first kiss. The second passed in height The first, and sought the forehead, and half missed, Half falling on the hair.
Page 214 - You may try - but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
Page 228 - To my dear husband, George Henry Lewes, I give the MS. of a work which would never have been written but for the happiness which his love has conferred on my life.
Page 105 - Jo was very tall, thin, and brown, and reminded one of a colt; for she never seemed to know what to do with her long limbs, which were very much in her way. She had a decided mouth, a comical nose, and sharp, gray eyes, which appeared to see everything, and were by turns fierce, funny or thoughtful. Her long, thick hair was her one beauty; but it was usually bundled into a net, to be out of her way. Round shoulders had Jo, big...
Page 237 - MAY I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence : live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self. In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge man's search To vaster issues.
Page 332 - Gloweth the cleft with her golden ring, Twixt the two brown butterflies waver, Lightly settle, and sleepily swing. We two walk till the purple dieth, And short dry grass under foot is brown ; But one little streak at a distance lieth Green, like a ribbon, to prank the down.