 Her powerful reason would have deduced new spheres of discovery from the knowledge of the old ; and her strong, imperious will would never have been daunted by opposition or difficulty ; never have given way but with life.  The Cornhill Magazine - Page 66edited by - 1873Full view - About this book
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Authors, English - 1857 - 376 pages
...spheres of discovery from the knowledge of the old ; and her strong, imperious will would never have been daunted by opposition or difficulty ; never have given way but with life." And yet, moreover, her faculty of imagination was such that, if she had written a history, her view... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - 516 pages
...spheres of discovery from the knowledge of the old ; and her strong, imperious will would never have been daunted by opposition or difficulty; never have given way but with life.' And yet, moreover, her faculty of imagination was such that, if she had written a history, her view... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Novelists, English - 1857 - 324 pages
...spheres of discovery from the knowledge of the old ; and her strong, imperious will would never have been daunted by opposition or difficulty ; never have given way but with life." And yet, moreover, her faculty of imagination was such that, if she had written a history, her view... | |
 | Joseph Johnson - 1860 - 282 pages
...spheres of discovery from the knowledge of the old ; and her strong imperious will would never have been daunted by opposition or difficulty — never have given way but with life." When the Brontes went first to Brussels, it was their intention to remain only six months; but owing... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1862 - 612 pages
...spheres of discovery from the knowledge of the old; and her stroug, imperious will would never have been daunted by opposition or difficulty; never have given way but with life." And yet, moreover, her faculty of imagination was such that, if she had written a history, her view... | |
 | William Clark Russell - Authors, English - 1871 - 550 pages
...spheres of discovery from the knowledge of the old ; and her strong imperious will would never have been daunted by opposition or difficulty — never have given way but with life." And yet, moreover, her faculty of imagination was such that, if she had written a history, her view... | |
 | American literature - 1873 - 808 pages
...spheres of discovery from the knowledge of the old, and her strong, imperious will would never have been daunted by opposition or difficulty : never have...Shrinking entirely from contact with the life which _ surrounded her, she gave herself up to nature, the result being apparent in her works, which reveal... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1873 - 492 pages
...spheres of discovery from the knowledge of the old; and her strong imperious will would never have been daunted by opposition or difficulty ; never have given way but with life." And yet, moreover, her faculty of imagination was such that, if she had written a history, her view... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - Authors, American - 1875 - 458 pages
...spheres of discovery from the knowledge of the old, and her strong, imperious will would never have been daunted by opposition or difficulty : never have...works, which reveal a most intimate acquaintance with 238 POETS AND NOVELISTS. the great Mother in all her moods. Her mind was absolutely free to all the... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Great Britain - 1884 - 242 pages
...spheres of discovery from the knowledge of the old ; and her strong imperious will would never have been daunted by opposition or difficulty ; never have given way but with life.' For such pupils their teacher wisely adopted a new method ; throwing aside grammar and vocabulary,... | |
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