 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...  Shirley, by Currer Bell - Page 209by Charlotte Brontë - 1849Full view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | 430 pages
...they would he a little amazed ; hut the cleverest, the acutost men are often under an illusion ahout women, they do not read them in a true light, they misapprehend them, hoth for good and evil, their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, and half angel; their had woman... | |
 | 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...evil : their good woman is a queer thing-, half doll, and half angel ; their bad woman almost always a fiend. Women — she affirms by the mouth -of July... | |
 | 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...evil : their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, and half angel ; their bad woman almost always a fiend. Women — she affirms by the mouth of July... | |
 | 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 - English literature - 1872 - 608 pages
...Shirley when both were dressed, only that Miss Keeldar's eyes were lively, and Miss Helstone's languid. expectation, and occupation for her. "He will have...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... | |
 | Marianne Novy - Drama - 1990 - 276 pages
...created in literature and life. For example, Shirley comments that men underestimate women, adding, "If men could see us as we really are, they would...both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thine, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend" (278). Shirley's most radical... | |
 | Judith Yarnall - Circe (Greek mythology) in literature - 1994 - 260 pages
...had nothing to do with the real nature of women. The protagonist of her novel Shirley explains that "the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women . . . their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman is almost always a... | |
 | Robert Johanson - American drama (Comedy) - 2000 - 68 pages
...the world of society, she never learned that women should not identify with men. WOMAN TWO (Emily). If men could see us as we really are, they would be amazed. WOMAN FOUR (Narrator). When Wuthering Heights was published in America along with Anne's second... | |
 | Eliza Cook - 1850 - 442 pages
...reason, that women arc not understood, and in one place, her heroine is thus made to speak : — " ' If men could see us as we really are, they would be...evil, their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, and half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend. Then to hear them fall into ecstasies with each... | |
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