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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 13,
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. * 6 Lucile, By Owen Meredith. Chapman ...
Thus , striving her instincts to hide and repress , She She felt ined frig for hte the n'd hill at - times tops by the her clouds very and success the ; stars :
. Golden p wires may annoy us , as much as , steel bars If Her they heart keep rose us and behind burst prison the - li windows ght cage : she impassion had fashion 'd 'd
Wings Out of g of littering desolate trifles flight around , and so it , 'd _imfurl up from 'd the world . The In this secret dual and identity charm possibl of her y singular lay
sway Over men of the world . 'Twas the genius , all warm Indescribabl With the woman y strange , that gave there to appear the woman 'd in her a charm life
; A puzzle , a mystery—something at strife With And _siich lexing men , which the fancy yet thrall still haunted 'd and enchain the heart 'd them . in part .
That , intensity perp , earnestness , , depth , or veracity , Which star ward imp ell'd her with such pertinacity As turns to the loadstar the needle , reflected
Itself upon others : she therefore affected , Unconsciously , those amongst whom she was thrown , As the magnet the metals it neighbors . Unknown
Embraced To herself _^ the all her idea instincts of self-immolation , without hesitation . ,
Aloof Unlike from man the 's stern minds intellect that it , which , and while commands it stands sways By a power wrench'd from labor , sublimely compels
All To its aroun fix' d d and and beneath imperial the purpose high ; sp in here her where it dwells The soft spirit of woman that seeks to confer
Its sweet self on the loved , had her life but been blended With some man ' s whose heart had her own comprehended ,
All its wealth at his feet would have lavishly thrown . For him she had then been ambitious alone : For him had aspired ; in him had transfused
All the gladness and grace of her nature ; and used For him only the spells of its delicate power : To Like some the ministering all the fairy treasures that brings whose from use the her fond bower elf mage
More enrich'd by her love , disregards , for herself . , But And standing her genius apart , which , as she needed ever a had vent done , finding , none
In She the unconsciousl broad fields made of action it her thrown bulwark wide and to tower man ' s power , y , Her And contempt built in it at her the refug fashions e , whence and form lightl s of y she the hurl world 'd .
And , indeed , her chief fault was this unconscious scorn Of the world , to whose usages woman is born .
_ISTot The the Creator Would ' s gr , e where at gift that to the word needs imp of lies the all creature human nature : , That large heartwith its sorrow to solaceits care
To assuage , and , its grand aspirations to share , : But With the its world against , with encroachments and its that against chafe and perplex ,
44 A 7 i _, _ivJiat men will the world man , say ? " with sex her was sex a query . Never utter'd , or utter'd alone with a dreary
Rejection in thought of the answer before
Notices Of Books. 13,
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 13 ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1860, page 135, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101860/page/63/
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