Charlotte Brontë: A MonographMacmillan, 1877 - 236 páginas |
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acquaintance Agnes Grey Anne Anne Brontë author of Jane believe BOLTON BRIDGE Branwell Branwell Brontë Brussels character Charlotte Brontë Charlotte's critics Currer Bell daughter death dreary Emily Brontë Emily's eyes fame father fear feel Filey Gaskell Gaskell's genius girl give governess happy Haworth Parsonage heart Heathcliff Helston hope husband interest Jane Eyre Keighley kind knew labour letters literary lives London look mind Miss Brontë Miss Martineau moors morbid morning nature never Nicholls novel once pain Papa passed PATRICK BRONTË person portrait quiet racter reader rodomontade Scarborough scarcely seems seen Shirley sincere sisters sorrow soul speak spirit stay story strange stranger suffering sympathy tell Thackeray thankful thing thought told true trust truth Villette week whilst wife wish woman women words write written wrote Wuthering Heights Yorkshire
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Página 66 - I saw it bare and real, and it was very loathsome. I saw a mind degraded by the practice of mean subterfuge, by the habit of perfidious deception, and a body depraved by the infectious influence of the vice-polluted soul. I had suffered much from the forced and prolonged view of this spectacle; those sufferings I did not now regret, for their simple recollection acted as a most wholesome antidote to temptation. They had inscribed on my reason the conviction that unlawful pleasure, trenching on another's...
Página 180 - disgusted me at the opening: and I gave up the writer and her books with the notion that she was a person who liked coarseness. How I misjudged her ! and how thankful I am that I never put a word of my misconceptions into print, or recorded my misjudgments of one who is a whole heaven above me. Well have you done your work, and given us the picture of a valiant woman made perfect by sufferings. I shall now read carefully and lovingly every word she has written.
Página 53 - I do not know whether you feel as I do, but there are times now when it appears to me as if all my ideas and feelings, except a few friendships and affections, are changed from what they used to be; something in me, which used to be enthusiasm, is tamed down and broken. I have fewer illusions; what I wish for now is active exertion — a stake in life. Haworth seems such a lonely, quiet spot, buried away from the world. I no longer regard myself as young — indeed, I shall soon be twentyeight; and...
Página 46 - I had a kindly leaning towards him, because he is an amiable and welldisposed man, yet I had not, and could not have, that intense attachment which would make me willing to die for him; and, if ever I marry, it must be in that light of adoration that I will regard my husband.
Página 4 - How well I remember the delight, and wonder, and pleasure with which I read "Jane 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...
Página 41 - My sister Emily is gone into a situation as teacher in a large school of near forty pupils, near Halifax. I have had one letter from her since her departure — it gives an appalling account of her duties. Hard labour from six in the morning until near eleven at night, with only one half-hour of exercise between. This is slavery. I fear she will never stand it.
Página 194 - ... and the blue sky and bright sun shining steadily and cloudlessly. That was his most perfect idea of heaven's happiness — mine was rocking in a rustling green tree, with a west wind blowing, and bright, white clouds flitting rapidly above; and not only larks, but throstles, and blackbirds...
Página 97 - As to being happy, I am under scenes and circumstances of excitement ; but I suffer acute pain sometimes — mental pain, I mean. At the moment Mr. Thackeray presented himself, I was thoroughly faint from inanition, having eaten nothing since a very slight breakfast, and it was then seven o'clock in the evening. Excitement and exhaustion made savage work of me that evening. What he thought of me I cannot tell.
Página 134 - No matter, — whether known or unknown — misjudged, or the contrary, — I am resolved not to write otherwise. I shall bend as my powers tend. The two human beings who understood me, and whom I understood, are gone...
Página 37 - The following are some of the thoughts that now and then solace a governess : — LINES WRITTEN FROM HOME. THOUGH bleak these woods, and damp the ground, With fallen leaves so thickly strewn, And cold the wind that wanders round With wild and melancholy moan ; There is a friendly roof, I know, Might...