The Life of Charlotte BronteJ. Grant, 1905 - 526 sivua |
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admiration Agnes Grey Anne Anne Brontë appearance believe Birstall Brussels character Charlotte Brontë Charlotte's church Cowan Bridge curate Currer Bell daughter dear Dewsbury Moor duties Emily Emily Brontë Emily's expression father fear feel felt G. H. LEWES Gaskell girls give glad happy hear heard heart hope impression interest Jane Eyre Keighley kind knew lady letter living London look Madame Héger Mary mind Miss Branwell Miss Brontë Miss Martineau Miss Nussey Miss Wooler moors morning nature never Nicholls night once pain Papa pleasant pleasure present published pupils quiet received Roe Head seems sent Shirley sisters Smith speak spirits stay strong suffering Sydney Dobell Tabby talk tell Thackeray thankful things thought told took village Villette walk week wish woman words write written wrote Wuthering Heights Yorkshire
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Sivu 137 - Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be. The more she is engaged in her proper duties, the less leisure will she have for it even as an accomplishment and a recreation.
Sivu xiv - I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us, we have been so happy.
Sivu 264 - ... we had a vague impression that authoresses are liable to be looked on with prejudice; we had noticed how critics sometimes use for their chastisement the weapon of personality, and for their reward, a flattery which is not true praise.
Sivu 154 - I see more clearly than I have ever done before, that a private governess has no existence, is not considered as a living rational being, except as connected with the wearisome duties she has to fulfil One of the pleasantest afternoons I have spent here — indeed, the only one at all pleasant — was when Mr.
Sivu 44 - I asked the next (Emily, afterwards Ellis Bell), what I had best do with her brother Branwell, who was sometimes a naughty boy ; she answered, 'Reason with him, and when he won't listen to reason, whip him.
Sivu 30 - I'll frown and be perverse and say thee nay, So thou wilt woo; but else, not for the world. In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond, And therefore thou mayst think my haviour light: But trust me, gentleman, I'll prove more true Than those that have more cunning to be strange.
Sivu 119 - My sister Emily loved the moors. Flowers brighter than the rose bloomed in the blackest of the heath for her ; out of a sullen hollow in a livid hill-side her mind could make an Eden. She found in the bleak solitude many and dear delights ; and not the least and best loved was — liberty.
Sivu 315 - 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...
Sivu 139 - I have endeavoured not only attentively to observe all the duties a woman ought to fulfill, but to feel deeply interested in them. I don't always succeed, for sometimes when I'm teaching or sewing I would rather be reading or writing; but I try to deny myself; and my father's approbation amply rewarded me for the privation.
Sivu 153 - I said in my last letter that Mrs. Sidgwick did not know me; I now begin to find...