 Meantime, my younger sister quietly produced some of her own compositions, intimating that, since Emily's had given me pleasure, I might like to look at hers. I could not but be a partial judge, yet I thought that these verses, too, had a sweet sincere...  The Life of Charlotte Brontë - Sivu 271tekijä(t) Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1857Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | 1851 - 902 sivua
...younger sister quietly produced some of her own compositions, intimating that since Emily's had given me pleasure, I might like to look at hers. I could...verses too had a sweet sincere pathos of their own.' What followed will be best told in the writer's own words : — ' We had very early cherished the dream... | |
 | 1851 - 604 sivua
...younger sister quietly produced some of her own compositions, intimating that since Emily's had given me pleasure, I might like to look at hers. I could not but be a partial judge, yet I thonght that these verses too had a sweet sincere pathos of their own. We had very early cherished... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1855 - 780 sivua
...younger sister quietly produced some of her own compositions, intimating that since Emily's had given me pleasure, I might like to look at hers. I could...own. We had very early cherished the dream of one day becoming authors. This dream, never relinquished, even when distance divided and absorbing tasks occupied... | |
 | 1855 - 784 sivua
...tasks occupied us, now suddenly acquired strength and consistency : it took the character of a resolve. We agreed to arrange a small selection of our poems,...if possible, get them printed. Averse to personal publicit)-, we veiled our own names under those of Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell; the ambiguous choice... | |
 | John Tomlinson - 1865 - 246 sivua
...younger sister quietly produced some of her own compositions, intimating that since Emily's had given me pleasure, I might like to look at hers. I could...their own. " We had very early cherished the dream of becoming authors. This dream, never relinquished even when distance divided and absorbing tasks occupied... | |
 | Emily Brontë - 1870 - 488 sivua
...compositions, intimating that, since Emily's had given me pleasure, I might like to look at hera. 1 could not but be a partial judge, yet I thought that these T?rsies, too, had a sweet sincere pathos of their own. We had very early cherished the dream of one... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1873 - 534 sivua
...younger sister quietly produced some of her own compositions, intimating that, since Emily's had given me pleasure, I might like to look at hers. I could...own. We had very early cherished the dream of one day becoming authors. This dream, never relinquished even when distance divided and absorbing tasks occupied... | |
 | Peter Bayne - 1881 - 428 sivua
...poems. They were produced, and again the judgment proved favourable. " I thought," says Charlotte, " that these verses too had a sweet, sincere pathos of their own." If to " sweet, sincere pathos " we add unaffected and graceful feeling, and correct, easy, not unmelodious... | |
 | Agnes Mary Frances Robinson - 1883 - 348 sivua
...compositions, intimating that since Emily's had given me pleasure, I might like to look at some of hers. I could not but be a partial judge, yet I thought...verses, too, had a sweet sincere pathos of their own." Only a partial judge could find anything much to praise in gentle Anne's trivial verses. Had the book... | |
 | Helen Gray Cone, Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1887 - 310 sivua
...younger sister quietly produced some of her own compositions, intimating that since Emily's had given me pleasure, I might like to look at hers. I could...had a sweet sincere pathos of their own. . . . We agreed to arrange a small selection of our poems, and, if possible, get them printed. Averse to personal... | |
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