From a Girl's Point of ViewPurchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Every woman has had, at some time in her life, an experience with man in the raw. In reality, one cannot set down with any degree of accuracy the age when his rawness attacks him, or the time when he has got the last remnant of it out of his system. But a close study of the complaint, and the necessity for pigeon-holing everything and everybody, lead one to declare that somewhere in the vicinity of the age of thirty-five man emerges from his rawness and becomes a part of trained humanity - a humanity composed of men and women trained in the art of living together. |
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Page 145 - With Stupidity and sound Digestion man may front much. But what, in these dull unimaginative days, are the terrors of Conscience to the diseases of the Liver ! Not on Morality, but on Cookery, let us build our stronghold : there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things Jte has provided for his Elect...
Page 77 - If thou must love me, let it be for naught Except for love's sake only. Do not say, "I love her for her smile— her look— her way Of speaking gently— for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine, and certes brought A sense of pleasant ease on such a day...
Page 185 - Actual, wherein thou even now standest, here or nowhere is thy Ideal: work it out therefrom; and working, believe, live, be free. Fool ! the Ideal is in thyself, the impediment too is in thyself: thy Condition is but the stuff thou art to shape that same Ideal out of : what matters whether such stuff be of this sort or that, so the Form thou give it be heroic, be poetic...
Page 77 - For these things in themselves, Beloved, may Be changed, or change for thee, — and love, so wrought, May be unwrought so. Neither love me for Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry, — A creature might forget to weep, who bore Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby ! But love me for love's sake, that evermore Thou may'st love on, through love's eternity.
Page 185 - The Situation that has not its Duty, its Ideal, was never yet occupied by man. Yes here, in this poor, miserable, hampered, despicable Actual, wherein thou even now standest, here or nowhere is thy Ideal: work it out therefrom; and working, believe, live, be free.
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Page 21 - LAST night in blue my little love was dressed ; And as she walked the room in maiden grace, I looked into her fair and smiling face, And said that blue became my darling best. But when, this morn, a spotless virgin vest And robe of white did the blue one displace, She seemed a pearl-tinged cloud, and I was — space ! She filled my soul as cloud shapes fill the West.
Page 21 - ... grace, I looked into her fair and smiling face, And said that blue became my darling best. But when, this morn, a spotless virgin vest And robe of white did the blue one displace, She seemed a pearl-tinged cloud, and I was — space ! She filled my soul as cloud shapes fill the West. And so it is that, changing day by day, — Changing her robe, but not her loveliness, — Whether the gown be blue, or white, or gray, I deem that one her most becoming dress. The truth is this : In any robe or...
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