 | 1853 - 390 pages
...seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure — she embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection ; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless, for it is the bankruptcy of the heart. To a man, the disappointment of love may cause some bitter pangs ; it... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1853 - 304 pages
...embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection ; and if shipwrecked, her case is hope- ; less — for it is a bankruptcy of the heart. To a man the...tenderness — it blasts some prospects of felicity ; but he is an active being — he may dissipate his thoughts in the whirl of varied occupation, or... | |
 | John W. Burke - 1853 - 324 pages
...seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection : and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless — for it is bankruptcy of the heart. To a man, the disappointments of love may cause some bitter pangs : it wounds... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1856 - 592 pages
...seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure ; she embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection ; and if shipwrecked,...tenderness — it blasts some prospects of felicity ; but he is an active being — he may dissipate his thoughts in the whirl of varied occupation, or... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 808 pages
...adventures ; she embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection ; ami if shipwrecked, her case ii hopeless — for it is a bankruptcy of the heart To...tenderness — it blasts some prospects of felicity ; but he is an active being — he may dissipate his thought* in the whirl of varied occupation, or... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 838 pages
...seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventures ; she embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection ; and if shipwrecked,...bankruptcy of the heart, To a man the disappointment of loye may occasion some bitter pangs: it wounds some feeling* »f tenderness — it blasts some prospects... | |
 | 1856 - 570 pages
...seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection ; and if shipwrecked,...hopeless — for it is a bankruptcy of the heart. Ungaitg, — Cowper. "YU~E too are friends to Loyalty. We love Freely and with delight, who leaves... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 816 pages
...embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection; and if shipwrecked, her case it hopeless—for it is a bankruptcy of the heart, To a man the disappointment of love may occaBut womau's is comparatively n fixed, a secluded, and a meditative life. She is more the companion... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1857 - 478 pages
...seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection ; and if shipwrecked,...love may occasion some bitter pangs : it wounds some feeliugs of tenderness — it blasts some prospects of felicity ; but he is an active being — he... | |
 | Louise de Cléron (comtesse d'Haussonville.) - 1858 - 298 pages
...seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection ; and if shipwrecked,...tenderness — it blasts some prospects of felicity; but he is an active being — he may dissipate his thoughts in the whirl of varied occupation, or may... | |
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But a woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world; it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures; she sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul in... 
