Wuthering HeightsSmith, Elder, 1870 - 446 pages |
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... less congruous with the writer's nature could be conceived . The motives which dictated this choice were pure , but , I think , slightly morbid . She had , in the course of her life been called on to contemplate , near at hand , and for ...
... less congruous with the writer's nature could be conceived . The motives which dictated this choice were pure , but , I think , slightly morbid . She had , in the course of her life been called on to contemplate , near at hand , and for ...
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... less than nothing ; but for those who had known them all their lives in the intimacy of close relationship , they were genuinely good and truly great . This notice has been written , because I felt it a sacred duty to wipe the dust off ...
... less than nothing ; but for those who had known them all their lives in the intimacy of close relationship , they were genuinely good and truly great . This notice has been written , because I felt it a sacred duty to wipe the dust off ...
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... less and mute . She Rough weather ! " I remarked . " I'm afraid , Mrs Heath- cliff , the door must bear the consequence of your servants ' leisure attendance : I had hard work to make them hear me . " She never opened her mouth . I ...
... less and mute . She Rough weather ! " I remarked . " I'm afraid , Mrs Heath- cliff , the door must bear the consequence of your servants ' leisure attendance : I had hard work to make them hear me . " She never opened her mouth . I ...
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... less you meddle with him the better . " 29 " He must have had some ups and downs in life to make him such a churl . Do you know anything of his history ? " It's a cuckoo's , sir - I know all about it : except where he was born , and who ...
... less you meddle with him the better . " 29 " He must have had some ups and downs in life to make him such a churl . Do you know anything of his history ? " It's a cuckoo's , sir - I know all about it : except where he was born , and who ...
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Page 352 - A soft answer turneth away wrath : but grievous words stir up anger.
Page 57 - My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath : a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind : not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.
Page 56 - It would degrade vi 14 me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him; and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.
Page 130 - Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living; you said I killed you - haunt me, then! The murdered DO haunt their murderers, I believe. I know that ghosts HAVE wandered on earth. Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only DO not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I CANNOT live without my life! I CANNOT live without my soul!
Page 349 - God's mercy, and with a quiet conscience ; therefore if there be any of you, who by this means cannot quiet his own conscience herein, but requireth further comfort or counsel ; let him come to me, or to some other discreet and learned Minister of God's Word, and open his grief...
Page 95 - I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free ; and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! Why am I so changed? why does my blood rush into a hell of tumult at a few words? I'm sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills.
Page 146 - Now, my bonny lad, you are mine ! And we'll see if one tree won't grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it...
Page 124 - I'm wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it and in it.
Page 83 - The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him; they crush those beneath them. You are welcome to torture me to death for your amusement, only allow me to amuse myself a little in the same style, and refrain from insult as much as you are able.
Page 351 - ... him to explain those words that trouble you so much, I think he would have told you, that if many shall seek to enter in at the strait gate and shall not be able, it is their own sins that hinder them ; just as a man with a large sack on his back might wish to pass through a narrow doorway, and h'nd it impossible to do so unless he would leave his sack behind him.