Shall Titania come forth complete with her sportive court, with the flowers at her feet, the forest around her, and all the stars of summer glittering overhead? How well I remember the delight, and wonder, and pleasure with which I read "Jane Eyre," sent... Early and Late Papers: Hitherto Uncollected - Page 273by William Makepeace Thackeray - 1867 - 407 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1829 - 754 pages
...amongst the myriads of souls that have lived and died on this great earth — this great earth ? — this little speck in the infinite universe of God, —...a mournful interest and regard and curiosity upon this, the last fragmentary sketch from the noble hand which wrote Jane Eyre. ON RIBBONS HE uncle of... | |
| Francis Jacox - Authors - 1872 - 530 pages
...of his being enthralled by a book he could not put by. "How well I remember the delight and wonder with which I read 'Jane Eyre ' —sent to me by an...volumes up, lay them down until they were read through ! " And we know that when the manuscript of Jane Eyre was taken home by one of the publishers' " readers,"—he,... | |
| Charlotte Brontë - 1873 - 540 pages
...amongst the myriads of souls that have lived and died on this great earth — this great earth ? — this little speck in the infinite universe of God, —...a mournful interest and regard and curiosity upon this, the last fragmentary sketch from the noble hand which wrote Jane Eyre. WMT] EMMA. CHAPTER I.... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1873 - 610 pages
...an anthor whose name and sex were then alike unknown to me ; the strange fascinations of the-book ; and how with my own work pressing upon me, I could...recognized and admired that master-work of a great genins, will look with a mournful interest and regard and curiosity upon the last fragmentary sketch... | |
| Charlotte Brontë - 1876 - 544 pages
...amongst the myriads of souls that have lived and died on this great earth— this great earth ? — this little speck in the infinite universe of God, —...a mournful interest and regard and curiosity upon this, the last fragmentary sketch from the noble hand which wrote Jane Eyre. WMT] *5S EMMA. CHAPTER... | |
| English periodicals - 1876 - 588 pages
...which I read Jane Eyre ; sent to me by an author whose name and sex were then alike unknown to me, and how with my own work pressing upon me, I could...volumes up, lay them down until they were read through." It was the same everywhere. Even those who saw nothing to commend in the story, those who revolted... | |
| sir Thomas Wemyss Reid - Women novelists, English - 1877 - 302 pages
...which I read ' Jane Eyre,' sent to me by an author whose name and sex were then alike unknown to me ; and how with my own work pressing upon me, I could...volumes up, lay them down until they were read through." It was the same everywhere. Even those who saw nothing to commend in the story, those who revolted... | |
| Thomas Wemyss Reid - 1877 - 292 pages
...which I read ' Jane Eyre,' sent to me by an author whose name and sex were then alike unknown to me ; and how with my own work pressing upon me, I could...volumes up, lay them down until they were read through." It was the same everywhere. Even those who saw nothing to commend in the story, those who revolted... | |
| Thomas Wemyss Reid - 1877 - 294 pages
...which I read 'Jane Eyre,' sent to me by an author whose name and sex were then alike unknown to me ; and how with my own work pressing upon me, I could...volumes up, lay them down until they were read through." It was the same everywhere. Even those who saw nothing to commend in the story, those who revolted... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 390 pages
...remember the delight, and wonder, and pleasure with which I read " Jane Eyre," sent to me by an anthor whose name and sex were then alike unknown to me ;...recognized and admired that master-work of a great genins, will look with a mournful interest and regard and curiosity upon the last fragmentary sketch... | |
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