World-noted women : or, Types of womanly attributes of all lands and ages . i, with gi-eat beauty and tenderness. At the point in ques-tion, he describes her sUence, her confusion, her troubled aspect;her hidden face, her streaming tears, her hesitation and distress inhaving to relate the circumstances which she has summoned herhusband and father to hear. He has given to theu words amanly belief in the goodness of her they love, a noble confidencein her faith and viitue. Thou hast not failed in truth orpurity! they exclaim; thou yieldedst to violence ! And toher speech he has imparted a womanl
World-noted women : or, Types of womanly attributes of all lands and ages . i, with gi-eat beauty and tenderness. At the point in ques-tion, he describes her sUence, her confusion, her troubled aspect;her hidden face, her streaming tears, her hesitation and distress inhaving to relate the circumstances which she has summoned herhusband and father to hear. He has given to theu words amanly belief in the goodness of her they love, a noble confidencein her faith and viitue. Thou hast not failed in truth orpurity! they exclaim; thou yieldedst to violence ! And toher speech he has imparted a womanly tenderness, very character-istic of her modest worth,—gentle, yet firm and constant to herown conviction of right: You pardon me! she returns, butI,—I cannot pardon myself! And she falls, self-struck, at then*feet. Chaucer has a similar touch, here, with the Latin poet; indeedhis Legend of Lucrece, is, all through, almost a j^araphrase ofmany of the passages in Ovid. The touch adverted to, is strictlyin keeping with the character of the chaste Lucretia, marking her.
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