The Life of Charlotte Brontë, Band 2Appleton, 1857 |
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admiration Agnes Grey Ambleside amongst Anne ANNE BRONTË believe Casterton character Charlotte Brontë cheer Cloth cold critics Currer Bell dear Sir dreary Emily EMILY BRONTË Emily's excitement expressed eyes father fear feel felt G. H. LEWES George Sand give glad Haworth headache hear heard heart hope illness impression interest J. S. MILL Jane Eyre Keighley kind knew lady letter looked Messrs mind Miss Brontë Miss Martineau Miss Wooler morning nature never night novel once pain Papa pleasant pleasure pretty publishers quiet seems seen sent Shirley sincerely sisters solitude spirits stay strength strong suffered Sydney Dobell Tabby tale tell Thackeray thankful things thought tion told trust truth Villette visit to London W. S. WILLIAMS weather week wish woman words write written wrote Wuthering Heights
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Seite 64 - Day by day, when I saw with what a front she met suffering, I looked on her with an anguish of wonder and love. I have seen nothing like it; but, indeed, I have never seen her parallel in anything. Stronger than a man, simpler than a child, her nature stood alone.
Seite 43 - till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what did I find ? An accurate, daguerreotyped portrait of a commonplace face; a carefully-fenced, high-cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers ; but no glance of a bright, vivid physiognomy, no open country, no fresh air, no blue hill, no bonny beck. I should hardly like to live with her ladies and gentlemen, in their elegant but confined houses.
Seite 43 - When authors write best, or, at least, when they write most fluently, an influence seems to waken in them, which becomes their master — which will have its own way — putting out of view all behests but its own, dictating certain words, and insisting on their being used, whether vehement or measured in their nature; new-moulding characters, giving unthought-of turns to incidents, rejecting carefully elaborated old ideas, and suddenly creating and adopting new ones.
Seite 80 - I HOPED , that with the brave and strong , My portioned task might lie ; To toil amid the busy throng, With purpose pure and high. But God has fixed another part And He has fixed it well ; I said so with my bleeding heart, When first the anguish fell.
Seite 95 - Not always do those who dare such divine conflict prevail. Night after night the sweat of agony may burst dark on the forehead; the supplicant may cry for mercy with that soundless voice the soul utters when its appeal is to the Invisible. "Spare my beloved," it may implore. "Heal my life's life. Rend not from me what long affection entwines with my whole nature. God of heaven — bend — hear — be clement!" And after this cry and strife, the sun may rise and see him worsted. That opening morn,...
Seite 268 - FORASMUCH as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust ; in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life...
Seite 19 - He read it trembling. It declined, indeed, to publish that tale, for business reasons, but it discussed its merits and demerits so courteously, so considerately, in a spirit so rational, with a discrimination so enlightened, that this very refusal cheered the author better than a vulgarly-expressed acceptance would have done. It was added, that a work in three volumes would meet with careful attention.
Seite 105 - You are not to suppose any of the characters in ' Shirley ' intended as literal portraits. It would not suit the rules of art, nor of my own feelings, to write in that style. We only suffer reality to suggest, never to dictate.
Seite 67 - I should have written to you before, if I had had one word of hope to say; but I have not. She grows daily weaker. The physician's opinion was expressed too obscurely to be of use. He sent some medicine, which she would not take. Moments so dark as these I have never known. I pray for God's support to us all. Hitherto He has granted it.
Seite 45 - sentiment,' in my sense of the term — sentiment jealously hidden, but genuine, which extracts the venom from that formidable Thackeray, and converts what might be corrosive poison into purifying elixir. " If Thackeray did not cherish in his large heart deep feeling for his kind, he would delight to exterminate ; as it is, I believe, he wishes only to reform. Miss Austen being, as you say, without ' sentiment,' without poetry, maybe is sensible, real (more real than true), but she cannot be great.