 Bell did not describe as one whose eye and taste alone found pleasure in the prospect; her native hills were far more to her than a spectacle; they were what she lived in, and by, as much as the wild birds, their tenants, or as the heather, their produce.  The Cornhill Magazine - Page 66edited by - 1873Full view - About this book
 | Emily Brontë - 1870 - 488 pages
...sympathetic : Ellis Bell did not describe as one whose eye and taste alone found pleasure in the prospect ; her native hills were far more to her than a spectacle...scenery, are what they should be, and all they should be. AVhere delineation of human character is concerned, the case is different. I am bound to avow that... | |
 | 1873 - 842 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...these observations. Her life, however, seemed to be an unprized one, except by that sister who loved her profoundly, and who keenly appreciated her genius... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1873 - 840 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...these observations. Her life, however, seemed to be an unprized one, except by that sister who loved her profoundly, and who keenly appreciated her genius... | |
 | American literature - 1873 - 808 pages
...homely domestic duties, studies, and rambles. Shrinking entirely from contact with the life which _ surrounded her, she gave herself up to nature, the...these observations. Her life, however, seemed to be an unprized one, except by that sister who loved her profoundly, and who keenly appreciated her genius... | |
 | 1873 - 746 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...than a spectacle ; they were what she lived in, and bv, as much as the wild birds, their tenants, or as the heather, their produce." Her descriptions,... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1873 - 534 pages
...sympathetic : Ellis Bell did not describe as one whose eye and taste alone found pleasure in the prospect; her native hills were far more to her than a spectacle;...scenery, are what they should be, and all they should be. Where delineation of human character is concerned, the case is different. I am bound to avow that she... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - Authors, American - 1875 - 448 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...these observations. Her life, however, seemed to be an unprized one, except by that sister who loved her profoundly, and who keenly appreciated her genius... | |
 | George Barnett Smith - Authors, American - 1875 - 458 pages
...being apparent in her works, which reveal a most intimate acquaintance with 238 POETS AND NOVELISTS. the great Mother in all her moods. Her mind was absolutely...these observations. Her life, however, seemed to be an unprized one, except by that sister who loved her profoundly, and who keenly appreciated her genius... | |
 | Peter Bayne - English poetry - 1881 - 426 pages
...moorish, and wild, and knotty as a root of heath," — that the hills and moors were, to her sister, " what she lived in and by, as much as the wild birds,...their tenants, or as the heather, their produce," — she adds that Emily, after all, knew nothing, except at second-hand, about the moorland hinds and... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - Authors, English - 1893 - 326 pages
...sympathetic : Ellis Bell did not describe as one whose eye and taste alone found pleasure in the prospect ; her native hills were far more to her than a spectacle...scenery, are what they should be, and all they should be. Where delineation of human character is concerned, the case is different. I am bound to avow that she... | |
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