 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1829 - 754 pages
...to be with her always. Such, in our brief interview, she appeared to me. As one thinks of that lif« so noble, so lonely — of that passion for truth...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 Brontė - 1873 - 540 pages
...vubject of talk.) She formed conclusions that might be wrong, and built up whole 25-t THE LAST SKETCH. theories of character upon them. New to the London...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 Brontė - 1876 - 544 pages
...lay down the shining arms, and to be removed to a sphere where even a noble indignation cornlterius nequit lacerare, and where truth complete, and right...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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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Eyre, sent to me by an author 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 not, having taken the volumes up, lay them down until they were read through... 
