 If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is...  Eliza Cook's Journal - Page 214edited by - 1850Full view - About this book
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1849 - 320 pages
...took up the theme again five minutes after, as Caroline fastened her dress and clasped her girdle. " If men could see us as we really are, they would be...evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend. Then to hear them fall into extasies with each other's... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1849 - 688 pages
...miserable failures. " If men could see us as we really are," observes one of the heroines of the story, " they would be a little amazed ; but the cleverest,...about women : they do not read them in a true light [alas I madam, it is very difficult IJ ; they misapprehend them, both for good and evil ; their good... | |
 | English literature - 1852 - 536 pages
...the cleverest and acutest of them, under an illusion about women : they do not read them, she holds, in a true light ; they misapprehend them, both for...half angel ; their bad woman almost always a fiend. Women — she affirms by the mouth of July — VOL. xcv. NO. CCCLXXIX. x Shirley Keeldar — women... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1852 - 524 pages
...the cleverest and acutest of them, under an illusion about women : they do not read them, she holds, in a true light ; they misapprehend them, both for...half angel ; their bad woman almost always a fiend. Women — she affirms by the mouth -of July — VOL. xcv. NO. CCCLXXIX. x Shirley Keeldar — women... | |
 | A. Hoppe - English language - 1871 - 516 pages
...and shall do, many. You cannot read me as easily as I can read you". — C. Bell, Shirley II, p. 42: the acutest men are often under an illusion about women ; they do not read them in a true light. — ib. p. 55: you may search my countenance, but you cannot read it. — DHT p. 259: There were times... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1872 - 610 pages
...took up the theme again five minutes after, as Caroline fastened her dress and clasped her girdle. " If men could see us as we really are, they would be...evil : their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel ; their bad woman almost always a fiend. Then to hear them fall into ecstacies with each... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - English literature - 1872 - 608 pages
...took up the theme again five minutes after, as Caroline fastened her dress and clasped her girdle. " If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little anaazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women : they do not read... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1874 - 564 pages
...took up the theme again five minutes after, as Caroline fastened her dress and clasped her girdle. " If men could see us as we really are, they would be...them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queei thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend. Then to hear them fall into... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë, Laura Carter Holloway - 1883 - 168 pages
...despots — provided only they he sincere— have their sublime moments ; when they subdue and rule. If men could see us as we really are, they would be...evil : their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel ; their bad woman almost always a fiend. Then to hear them fall into ecstasies with each... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1888 - 560 pages
...women's minds something like those of children. Now, that is a mistake." '' If men could see us as as we really are, they would be a little amazed ;...evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend. Then to hear them fall into ecstasies with each... | |
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