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... Charlotte Brontë it will be advisable to recall to the reader's attention before the works of the three sisters themselves are passed in re- view . Haworth village , whose ... Charlotte Brontë has en- deavoured P 2 THE BRONTËS . 211.
... Charlotte Brontë it will be advisable to recall to the reader's attention before the works of the three sisters themselves are passed in re- view . Haworth village , whose ... Charlotte Brontë has en- deavoured P 2 THE BRONTËS . 211.
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A Series of Literary Studies George Barnett Smith. Keighley . The friend of Charlotte Brontë has en- deavoured to give some idea of the appearance of the district , but even she fails to depict it as it existed in the early part of the ...
A Series of Literary Studies George Barnett Smith. Keighley . The friend of Charlotte Brontë has en- deavoured to give some idea of the appearance of the district , but even she fails to depict it as it existed in the early part of the ...
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... Brontë said he could converse with his daughter Maria on all the leading questions of the day when she was only eleven years of age . Charlotte Brontë was at an early age familiar with all the forms of suffering and death , and her life ...
... Brontë said he could converse with his daughter Maria on all the leading questions of the day when she was only eleven years of age . Charlotte Brontë was at an early age familiar with all the forms of suffering and death , and her life ...
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... Brontë , the sister whom Charlotte especially loved . To see her drift out into the great Unknown Sea was trouble ... BRONTËS . 215.
... Brontë , the sister whom Charlotte especially loved . To see her drift out into the great Unknown Sea was trouble ... BRONTËS . 215.
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... Charlotte Brontë must have had originally a considerable endowment . She was necessarily pro- pelled towards the painting of what was frequently harsh , and always peculiar and extraordinary . Her perceptions were keen — as will be ...
... Charlotte Brontë must have had originally a considerable endowment . She was necessarily pro- pelled towards the painting of what was frequently harsh , and always peculiar and extraordinary . Her perceptions were keen — as will be ...
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Page 96 - Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints, — I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life ! — and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
Page 40 - Kent. Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
Page 373 - HE that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires, Or from star-like eyes doth seek Fuel to maintain his fires: As old Time makes these decay, So his flames must waste away. But a smooth and steadfast mind, Gentle thoughts, and calm desires, Hearts with equal love combined, Kindle never-dying fires:— Where these are not, I despise Lovely cheeks, or lips, or eyes.
Page 235 - If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it.
Page 378 - Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light: But, oh ! she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.
Page 381 - I'll never love thee more. As Alexander I will reign, And I will reign alone ; My thoughts did evermore disdain A rival on my throne. He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.
Page 98 - Get leave to work In this world — 'tis the best you get at all; For God, in cursing, gives us better gifts Than men in benediction. God says, "Sweat For foreheads," men say "crowns," and so we are crowned, Ay, gashed by some tormenting circle of steel Which snaps with a secret spring. Get work, get work; Be sure 'tis better than what you work to get.
Page 189 - Finding it so directly on the threshold of our narrative, which is now about to issue from that inauspicious portal, we could hardly do otherwise than pluck one of its flowers and present it to the reader. It may serve, let us hope, to symbolize some sweet moral blossom, that may be found along the track, or relieve the darkening close of a tale of human frailty and sorrow.
Page 375 - We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring! As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the Summer's rain; Or as the pearls of morning's dew Ne'er to be found again.
Page 241 - Earth and moon were gone And suns and universes ceased to be And thou wert left alone Every Existence would exist in thee...
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Relative Creatures: Victorian Women in Society and the Novel, 1837-67 Françoise Basch No preview available - 1974 |