The Beth Book / Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius

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The
Beth Book
Being a Study
of the Life of
Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure
A Woman of Genius
BY
Sarah Grand
IAGO.      Come, hold your peace.
EMILIA.   'Twill out, 'twill out:—I hold my
peace, Sir? no;
I'll be in speaking, liberal as the
air:

Let heaven, and men, and

devils, let them all

All, all, cry shame against me,

yet I'll speak.

SHAKESPEARE

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New York:

D. Appleton, 1897.

"I cannot gather the sunbeams out of the east, or I would make them tell you what I have seen; but read this and interpret this, and let us remember together. I cannot gather the gloom out of the night sky, or I would make that tell you what I have seen; but read this and interpret this, and let us feel together. And if you have not that within you which I can summon to my aid, if you have not the sun in your spirit and the passion in your heart which my words may awaken, though they be indistinct and swift, leave me, for I will give you no patient mockery, no labouring insults of that glorious Nature whose I am and whom

I serve."— RǼǪƫƗƿ.

"The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to one another. Certain ideas are in the air. We are all impressionable, for we are made of them; all impressionable, but some more than others, and these first express them. This explains the curious temporaneousness of inventions and

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