 You have sometimes wondered, my dear friend, at the extreme affection of my nature. But such is the temperature of my soul. It is not the vivacity of youth, the heyday of existence. For years have I endeavoured to calm an impetuous tide, labouring to...  Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley: Writing Lives - Síða 48 breytti - 2006 - 340 síðurTakmarkað sýnishorn - Um bókina
 | Mary Wollstonecraft - 1796 - 286 síður
...temperature of my foul — It is not the vivacity of youth, "the hey-day of exiftence. ( 95 ) exiftence. For years have I endeavoured to. calm an impetuous...— labouring to make my feelings take an orderly courfe. — It was flriving againft the ftream. — I muft loveand admire with warmth, or I fmk into... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1885 - 942 síður
...written three years later, proves it : " For years have I endeavored to calm an impetuous tide, laboring to make my feelings take an orderly course. It was...love and admire with warmth, or I sink into sadness." * It has been mentioned that she often met Fuseli, the artist, at Mr. Johnson's. Fuseli was abrupt... | |
 | G. R. Stirling Taylor - 1911 - 232 síður
...to calm an impetuous tide — labouring to make my feelings take an orderly course — it was strong against the stream. I must love and admire with warmth, or I sink into sadness." Again, when on the subject of sexual morals : " Ergo, is not man then the tyrant of the creation ?... | |
 | Mary Poovey - 1985 - 309 síður
...I have endeavoured to calm an impetuous tide," Wollstonecraft comments on her years of repression, "labouring to make my feelings take an orderly course....love and admire with warmth, or I sink into sadness" (p. 74). Wollstonecraft advances her brave new vulnerability with an authorial confidence her earlier... | |
 | Virginia Sapiro - 1992 - 394 síður
...discovery of the act of atrocity of which she was the victim" (86). Earlier she had written of herself, "For years have I endeavoured to calm an impetuous...labouring to make my feelings take an orderly course" (Scand. 280). In the same letter she wrote, "the fear of annihilation — the only thing of which I... | |
 | Ariel Books - 1992 - 106 síður
...wheel. — DOROTHY CANFIELD FISHER For years I have endeavored to calm an impetuous tide — laboring to make my feelings take an orderly course — it was striving against the stream. — MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT I've been called many things, but never an intellectual. — TALLTLAH BANKHEAD... | |
 | William Stafford - 2002 - 266 síður
...love when she fell in love with Imlay, and for a brief time had her love returned: 'For years I have endeavoured to calm an impetuous tide— labouring...I must love and admire with warmth, or I sink into sadness.'79 If Hays thinks in her Appeal to the Men of Great Britain that romantic love is not found... | |
 | Harriet Devine Jump - 2003 - 442 síður
...reveries of childhood, I bowed before the awful throne of my Creator, whilst I rested on its footstool. 'You have sometimes wondered, my dear friend, at the...sadness. Tokens of love which I have received have wrapt me in elysium — purifying the heart they enchanted. --My bosom still glows. — Do not saucily... | |
 | Harriet Devine, Harriet Devine Jump - 2003 - 456 síður
...writes that she feels she has come to a new understanding of her own nature: For years I have endeavored to calm an impetuous tide - labouring to make my feelings...orderly course. It was striving against the stream. ( Works, vi, p. 280) Both sets of letters, public and private, demonstrate abundantly that she has... | |
 | Mary Wollstonecraft - 2002 - 250 síður
...reveries of childhood, I bowed before the awful throne of my Creator, whilst I rested on its footstool. You have sometimes wondered, my dear friend, at the...sadness. Tokens of love which I have received have wrapped me in Elysium, purifying the heart they enchanted. My bosom still glows. Do not saucily ask,... | |
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