The Life of Charlotte BronteSmith, Elder, 1896 - 452 páginas |
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Agnes Grey Anne ANNE BRONTË Anne's appeared asked aunt believe Brussels Casterton character Charlotte Brontë Charlotte's church cold Cowan Bridge Currer Bell daughter dear death Dewsbury Moor duty Emily Emily's expression eyes father fear feel felt G. H. Lewes girls give glad happy Hartshead Haworth Parsonage hear heard heart Heckmondwike hope hour idea interest Jane Eyre Keighley kind knew lady letter living London look Luddites Madame Héger Martha Mary Messrs mind Miss Branwell Miss Brontë Miss Martineau moors morning Napoléon nature never night opinion pain Papa pleasure poems present publishers pupils quiet received reply Roe Head seems sent Shirley sisters speak spirits stay strong suffering Tabby talk tell thankful things thought told took village walk week wish woman words write written wrote Wuthering Heights Yorkshire
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Página 104 - Prepared as my mind was for horror, shaken as my nerves were by agitation, I thought the swiftdarting beam was a herald of some coming vision from another world. My heart beat thick, my head grew hot ; a sound filled my ears which I deemed the rustling of wings ; something seemed near me.
Página 104 - turning a fascinated eye towards the gleaming mirror—I began to recall what I had heard of dead men troubled in their graves. ... I endeavoured to be firm ; shaking my hair from my eyes, I lifted my head and tried to look boldly round the dark room ; at this moment a light gleamed on the wall. Was it
Página 245 - letter containing the rejection of The Professor. " As a forlorn hope, we tried one publishing house more. Ere long, in a much shorter space than that on which experience had taught him to calculate, there came a letter, which he opened in the dreary anticipation of finding two hard, hopeless lines, intimating that
Página 205 - Charlotte Bronte " and " she."] " He quietly strokes the cat, and lets her sit while he conveniently can ; and when he must disturb her by rising, he puts her softly down, and never flings her from him roughly : he always whistles to the dog, and gives him a caress." The feeling, which in Charlotte partook of something of the
Página 240 - the arrival of a sheriff's officer on a visit to B., inviting him either to pay his debts or take a trip to York. Of course his debts had to be paid. It is not agreeable to lose money, time after time, in this way ; but where is the use of dwelling on -such subjects ? It
Página 131 - home. I could like to work in a mill. I could like to feel some mental liberty. I could like this weight of restraint to be taken off. But the holidays will come. Coraggio." Her temporary engagement in this uncongenial family ended in the July of this year—not before the constant strain upon her spirits
Página 294 - 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.
Página 406 - when you have read it. I can hardly tell you how I hunger to hear some opinion beside my own, and how I have sometimes desponded, and almost despaired, because there was no one to whom to read a line, or of whom to ask a counsel.
Página 434 - of rest after dinner. I soon observed that her habits of order were such that she could not go on with the conversation, if a chair was out of its place ; everything was arranged with delicate regularity. We talked over the old times of her childhood ; of her elder sister's (Maria's) death,—just like that of Helen
Página 450 - the solemn tolling of Haworth church-bell spoke forth the fact of her death to the villagers who had known her from a child, and whose hearts shivered within them as they thought of the two sitting desolate and alone in the old grey house. CHAPTER XXVIII. I HAVE always been much struck with a passage in Mr.