 | 1820 - 856 pages
...the softer sex :— .' ' I have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortune. Those disasters...prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies of the softer sex, and give such intrepidity and elevation to their character, that at times... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 364 pages
...not sweeter. MlDDLITON. I HAVE often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortune. Those disasters...prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies of the softer sex, and give such intrepidity and elevation to their character, that at times... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1822 - 424 pages
...not sweeter. MlDDtETON. I HAVE often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortune. Those disasters...prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies of the softer sex, and give such intrepidity and elevation to their character, that at times... | |
 | Cabinet - Literature - 1824 - 440 pages
...not sweeter. MIDDLETON. I HAVE often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortune. Those disasters...prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies of the softer sex, and give such intrepidities and elevation to their character, that at times... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...not sweeter. MIDDLETON. I HAVE often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortune. Those disasters...prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies of the softer sex, and give such intrepidity and elevation to their character, that at times... | |
 | Alaric Alexander Watts - English poetry - 1824 - 228 pages
...women sustain the most galling reverses of fortune. Those disasters which break down the spirit of man, and prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies of the softer sex, and give such intrepidity and elevation to their character, that at times... | |
 | John Arliss - 1825 - 382 pages
...fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortune. Those disasters which hreak down the spirit of a man, and prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies of the softer sex, and give such intrepidity and elevation to their character, i hat at times... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1829 - 522 pages
...fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortune. Those disasters whiih break down the spirit of a man, and prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies of the softer sex, and give such ir.lv-pidity and elevation to their character, that at times... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1830 - 346 pages
...done the like. THE WIFE. I HAVE often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortune. Those disasters...prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies of the softer sex, and give such intrepidity and elevation to their character, that at times... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1832 - 410 pages
...immediate presence. THE WIFE. I HAYE often had occasion to remark the fortitude, with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortune. Those disasters,...prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies of the softer sex, and give such intrepidity and elevation to their character, that, at times,... | |
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I HAVE often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortune. Those disasters which break down the spirit of a man, and prostrate him in the dust, seem to call forth all the energies of the softer... 
