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PDFThings were lumpish and gloomy that day of the week
This female talk of the eternities
Titles showered on the women who take free breath of air
To males, all ideas are female until they are made facts
To time and a wife it is no disgrace for a man to bend
To know how to take a licking, that wins in the end
Uncommon unprogressiveness
Venus of nature was melting into a Venus of art
Violent summons to accept, which is a provocation to deny
We cannot, men or woman, control the heart in sleep at night
We shall want a war to teach the country the value of courage
We don’t go together into a garden of roses
When duelling flourished on our land, frail women powerful
Where heart weds mind, or nature joins intellect
Who cries, Come on, and prays his gods you won’t
Why he enjoyed the privilege of seeing, and was not beside her
With what little wisdom the world is governed
Women are happier enslaved
World against us It will not keep us from trying to serve
Years are the teachers of the great rocky natures
You’ll have to guess at half of everything he tells you
You’re going to be men, meaning something better than women
THE AMAZING MARRIAGE
By George Meredith
1895
CONTENTS:
Book 1.
I. Enter dame gossip as
chorus
ii. Mistress gossip tells
of the elopement of the countess
of
Cressett
with the old buccaneer, and
of Charles dump the
postillion
conducting them, and of A great
county family
III. Continuation of the
introductory meanderings of dame
gossip,
together
with her sudden extinction
iv. Morning and farewell
to an old home
V. A mountain walk in mist
and sunshine
vi. The natural philosopher
VII. The lady’s letter
viii. Of the encounter
of two strange young men and
their consorting:
In
which the male reader is requested
to bear in mind what wild
creature
he was in his youth, while
the female should marvel
credulously
IX. Concerning the black
goddess fortune and the worship
of her,
together
with an introduction of some
of her votaries
