 | Jane Austen - 2001 - 502 pages
...Repeatedly in those journals we find the same concern with the complementary nature of the genders: As Vivacity is the Gift of Women, Gravity is that...of them therefore keep a Watch upon the particular Biass which Nature has fixed in their Minds, that it may not draw too much, and lead them out of the... | |
 | Thomas Alan King - 2004 - 388 pages
...and their animal Spirits more light and volatile; or whether, as some have imagined, there may not be a kind of Sex in the very Soul, I shall not pretend...Vivacity is the Gift of Women, Gravity is that of Men" (27 July 1711; 2:8). Addison here expressed a conf1dence in natural sex difference that Burton, among... | |
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WOMEN in their nature are much more gay and joyous than men ; whether it be that their blood is more refined, their fibres more delicate, and their animal spirits more light and volatile ; or whether, as some have imagined, there may not be a kind of... 
