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... experience , education , and the power of self- expression , she marries a sea - captain and settles down quietly in a London suburb , respected by everyone , including the reader . Her brother is a softer type , more easily ex- ploited ...
... experience , education , and the power of self- expression , she marries a sea - captain and settles down quietly in a London suburb , respected by everyone , including the reader . Her brother is a softer type , more easily ex- ploited ...
Page 96
... experiences . The way must lie open for the birth of the children of vigour , youth , and free sexual selection , regardless of the question whether the parents are socially ripe and fit for marriage , or whether they intend to marry ...
... experiences . The way must lie open for the birth of the children of vigour , youth , and free sexual selection , regardless of the question whether the parents are socially ripe and fit for marriage , or whether they intend to marry ...
Page 97
... erotic destiny with energetic elasticity , to live through erotic experiences as does a man , and not to allow herself to be so profoundly shattered by an unfortunate episode as to suffer the wreck [ 97 ] A Woman's View of the Sex - Muddle.
... erotic destiny with energetic elasticity , to live through erotic experiences as does a man , and not to allow herself to be so profoundly shattered by an unfortunate episode as to suffer the wreck [ 97 ] A Woman's View of the Sex - Muddle.
Page 99
... experience , and disastrous failure is the common result . Such a prescription for women is formulated in utter disregard of the erotic caprices of the male , which are more changeable and uncertain than anything else in the world ...
... experience , and disastrous failure is the common result . Such a prescription for women is formulated in utter disregard of the erotic caprices of the male , which are more changeable and uncertain than anything else in the world ...
Page 143
... experience seems to be so much like that of a considerable part of the human race . It is the story of my poli- tical ideals , and it begins with my childhood . Until I was four years old I lived , like Adam , in a paradise , created ...
... experience seems to be so much like that of a considerable part of the human race . It is the story of my poli- tical ideals , and it begins with my childhood . Until I was four years old I lived , like Adam , in a paradise , created ...
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Page 114 - Not that great German master in his dream Of harmonies that thundered amongst the stars At the creation, ever heard a theme Nobler than "Go down, Moses." Mark its bars How like a mighty trumpet-call they stir The blood. Such are the notes that men have sung Going to valorous deeds; such tones there were That helped make history when Time was young. There is a wide, wide wonder in it all, That from degraded rest and servile toil The fiery spirit of the seer should call These simple children of the...
Page 48 - Follows with dancing and fills with delight The Maenad and the Bassarid; And soft as lips that laugh and hide The laughing leaves of the trees divide, And screen from seeing and leave in sight The god pursuing, the maiden hid. The ivy falls with the Bacchanal's hair Over her eyebrows hiding her eyes; The wild vine slipping down leaves bare Her bright breast shortening into sighs; The wild vine slips with the weight of its leaves, But the berried ivy catches and cleaves To the limbs that glitter,...
Page 274 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
Page 121 - Fat black bucks in a wine-barrel room, Barrel-house kings, with feet unstable, Sagged and reeled and pounded on the table, Pounded on the table, Beat an empty barrel with the handle of a broom, Hard as they were able, Boom, boom, BOOM, With a silk umbrella and the handle of a broom, Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, BOOM.
Page 190 - THE REFORMER. ALL grim and soiled and brown with tan, I saw a Strong One, in his wrath, Smiting the godless shrines of man Along his path. The Church beneath her trembling dome Essayed in vain her ghostly charm : Wealth shook within his gilded home With strange alarm. Fraud from his secret chambers fled Before the sunlight bursting in : Sloth drew her pillow o'er her head To drown the din.
Page 121 - Booth led boldly with his big bass drum — (Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?) The Saints smiled gravely and they said: "He's come." (Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb...
Page 120 - And dead is all the innocence of anger and surprise, And Christian killeth Christian in a narrow dusty room, And Christian dreadeth Christ that hath a newer face of doom, And Christian hateth Mary that God kissed in Galilee, But Don John of Austria is riding to the sea. Don John calling through the blast and the eclipse Crying with the trumpet, with the trumpet of his lips, Trumpet that sayeth ha! Domino gloria!
Page 190 - Yet louder rang the Strong One's stroke, Yet nearer flashed his axe's gleam ; Shuddering and sick of heart I woke, As from a dream.
Page 73 - ... by which he baffled the priests when they tried to trap him into sedition and blasphemy, or even if you tell any part of his story in the vivid terms of modern colloquial slang, you will produce an extraordinary dismay and horror among the iconolaters.
Page 149 - If a majority in every civilized country so desired, we could, within twenty years, abolish all abject poverty, quite half the illness in the world, the whole economic slavery which binds down nine tenths of our population; we could fill the world with beauty and joy, and secure the reign of universal peace.