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“What passes between two People, is more easily made up, than when once it has taken Air.” Desiderius Erasmus, The Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. · insight
“Mischance befalls us, all the interval Between its happening, and our knowledge of it, May be esteem'd clear gain.” Terence, The Comedies of Terence · insight
Helen comes down to join the meal, recognizes Telemachus as Ulysses’s son by likeness, consoles the group with personal memory of Ulysses’s sufferings, and recounts how her wrong love brought her to Troy.
hands. When Menelaus saw this he doubted whether to let him choose his own time for speaking, or to ask him at once and find what it was all about. While he was thus in two minds Helen came down from her high vaulted and perfumed room, looking as lovely as Diana herself. Adraste brought her a seat, Alcippe a soft woollen rug while Phylo fetched her the silver work-box which Alcandra wife of Polybus had given her. Po…
Paul gives moral instructions on purity, rejecting deceit, making the most of time, worshipful speech, mutual submission in marriage, and household order for husbands, wives, children, and servants.
For this ye know, that no whoremonger, either unclean person, or covetous person (which is the worshipper of images) hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ, and of God. Let no man deceive you with vain words. For thorow such things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of unbelief. Be not therefore companions with them. Ye were once darkness, but are now light in the lord. Walk as children of light. For …
Cato insults Caesar after a suspicious note proves to be a love letter from Servilia, then Plutarch explains Cato’s troubled women’s relationships—Servilia’s affairs, his sister’s conduct, Atilia’s divorce, and Cato’s later marriage to Marcia.
is said, established the first example of the art. Thus Cato carried it, and so turned the house again, that it was decreed the conspirators should be put to death. Not to omit any small matters that may serve to show Cato's temper, and add something to the portraiture of his mind, it is reported, that while Caesar and he were in the very heat, and the whole senate regarding them two, a little note was brought in to…
Outside the room, the niece and housekeeper confront Sancho, accusing him of deluding Don Quixote, while Sancho defends his claim that Don Quixote promised him an island.
WHICH TREATS OF THE NOTABLE ALTERCATION WHICH SANCHO PANZA HAD WITH DON QUIXOTE’S NIECE, AND HOUSEKEEPER, TOGETHER WITH OTHER DROLL MATTERS p02a.jpg (159K) Full Size The history relates that the outcry Don Quixote, the curate, and the barber heard came from the niece and the housekeeper exclaiming to Sancho, who was striving to force his way in to see Don Quixote while they held the door against him, “What does th…
Mill begins a new period with his friendship and future marriage to Harriet Taylor, describing her character, virtues, emancipation from superstition, and the intellectual and moral influence on his life.
COMMENCEMENT OF THE MOST VALUABLE FRIENDSHIP OF MY LIFE. MY FATHER'S DEATH. WRITINGS AND OTHER PROCEEDINGS UP TO 1840. It was the period of my mental progress which I have now reached that I formed the friendship which has been the honour and chief blessing of my existence, as well as the source of a great part of all that I have attempted to do, or hope to effect hereafter, for human improvement. My first introduct…
Boswell records that Johnson’s marriage was agreed to be held at Derby, and recounts a nuptial-journey story in which the bride pushes back against Johnson’s pace, ends up in tears, and Boswell concludes Johnson was affectionate to the end.
'Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, And teach[294] the young idea how to shoot!' we must consider that this delight is perceptible only by 'a mind at ease,' a mind at once calm and clear; but that a mind gloomy and impetuous like that of Johnson, cannot be fixed for any length of time in minute attention, and must be so frequently irritated by unavoidable slowness and errour in the advances of scholars, as…
Tiberius shows harshness to Drusus, his mother Livia, and his wife, refusing her status, feuding openly, and treating her illness and funeral with neglect, legal annulment, and punitive aftermath.
Gemonian Steps, and suffered a decree of the senate to pass, thanking him for his clemency, and an offering of gold to be made to Jupiter Capitolinus on the occasion. LIV. He had by Germanicus three grandsons, Nero, Drusus, and Caius; and by his son Drusus one, named Tiberius. Of these, after the loss of his sons, he commended Nero and Drusus, the two eldest sons of Germanicus, to the senate; and at their being so…
Moll stays behind from a man she cannot have, then lives as a young widow lodging with a linen-draper’s sister, gaining admirers but refusing unsuitable proposals until she marries a “gentleman-tradesman.”
so I stayed behind; for, in short, I could not bear the sight of his being given to another woman, though I knew I was never to have him myself. I was now, as above, left loose to the world, and being still young and handsome, as everybody said of me, and I assure you I thought myself so, and with a tolerable fortune in my pocket, I put no small value upon myself. I was courted by several very considerable tradesmen…
Robinson returns to his familiar enclosure on the island, rests, and resumes care routines, including feeding and taming a kid he first had penned, then sets himself to gratitude while marking his landing anniversary on September 30.
came to my bower, and there I enclosed him and left him, for I was very impatient to be at home, from whence I had been absent above a month. I cannot express what a satisfaction it was to me to come into my old hutch, and lie down in my hammock-bed. This little wandering journey, without settled place of abode, had been so unpleasant to me, that my own house, as I called it to myself, was a perfect settlement to me…
Sostrata complains that husbands unfairly blame all wives for a few offenses, insisting she is innocent of her husband’s accusations and hopes her son’s return will resolve everything.
*Manet SOSTRATA.* SOSTRA. How unjustly Do husbands stretch their censures to all wives For the offenses of a few, whose vices Reflect dishonor on the rest!--For, Heaven So help me, as I'm wholly innocent Of what my husband now accuses me! But 'tis no easy task to clear myself; So fix'd and rooted is the notion in them, That Step-Mothers are all severe.--Not I; For I have ever lov'd Philumena As my own daughter; nor …
Pamphilus returns to Athens and is distressed to find conflict between his mother and wife; his servant reveals there is a quarrel tied to Philumena’s illness, and Pamphilus exits to learn the truth.
*Enter PAMPHILUS and PARMENO.* PAM. Never did man experience greater ills, More miseries in love than I.--Distraction! Was it for this I held my life so dear? For this was I so anxious to return? Better, much better were it to have liv'd In any place, than come to this again! To feel and know myself a wretch!--For when Mischance befalls us, all the interval Between its happening, and our knowledge of it, May be este…
In “The Uneasy Wife,” Eulalia greets Xantippe, who complains about her husband’s poor clothing and spending, his tavern/gaming habits, and his drinking and loud snores, framing marriage as daily misery.
*EU.* Most welcome *Xantippe*, a good Morning to you. *Xa.* I wish you the same, my dear *Eulalia*. Methinks you look prettier than you use to do. *Eu.* What, do you begin to banter me already? *Xa.* No, upon my Word, for you seem so to me. *Eu.* Perhaps then my new Cloaths may set me off to Advantage. *Xa.* You guess right, it is one of the prettiest Suits I ever beheld in all my Life. It is *English* Cloth, I …
Eulalia argues wives should respect husbands, but Xantippe replies that if he acts like a husband in name only she will not submit, describes near-fisticuffs when he threatens her, and says she continues scolding while he mocks or plays music.
*Xa.* What becoming? If he does not use me like a Wife, I won't use him like a Husband. *Eu.* But St. *Paul* teaches, that Wives ought to be subject to their own Husbands with all Reverence. And St. *Peter* proposes the Example of *Sarah* to us, who call'd her Husband *Abraham* Lord. *Xa.* I have heard those Things, but the same *Paul* likewise teaches that _Men should love their Wives as Christ lov'd his Spouse th…
Erasmus’s wife figure explains how to manage a melancholy or drunken husband: mirror his mood, avoid public scolding, speak privately at the right time, and sometimes involve his parents while keeping domestic complaints discreet.
*Xa.* But how could you humour one who was never at Home, or was drunk? *Eu.* Have Patience, I was coming to that Point. If at any Time my Husband seem'd to be melancholy, and did not much care for talking, I did not laugh, and put on a gay Humour, as some Women are us'd to do; but I put on a grave demure Countenance, as well as he. For as a Looking-glass, if it be a true one, represents the Face of the Person that …
A story describes a learned gentleman trying to reform a young wife raised in the countryside, provoking her desperate resistance; he then involves her father-in-law, who threatens discipline, but persuasion and fear lead her to obedience and lasting change.
*Xa.* You will give an Instance then of a Man, that is as unlike my Husband, as black is from white. *Eu.* I have the Honour to be acquainted with a Gentleman of a noble Family; Learned, and of singular Address and Dexterity; he married a young Lady, a Virgin of seventeen Years of Age, that had been educated all along in the Country in her Father's House, as Men of Quality love to reside in the Country, for the Sake…
After her father’s harsh speech, the young wife pledges to reform herself to her husband, and the couple’s love deepens; the conversation then shifts to a separate city story where a wife uses hospitality to stop her husband’s wrongdoing.
Father's Feet, beseeching him to forget past Faults, and for the Time to come, she would be mindful of her Duty. Her Father freely forgave her, and also promised, that he would be to her a very indulgent Father, provided she perform'd what she promis'd. *Xa.* Well, what happened after that? *Eu.* The young Lady going away, after her Fathers Discourse was ended, went directly into her Chamber, and finding her Husban…