 Whether it is right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know: I scarcely think it is. But this I know: the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master - something that, at times, strangely...  Littell's Living Age - Page 1431851Full view - About this book
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1855 - 780 pages
...joy of it. Nor is this all, for, says Currer Bell in the same preface to " Wuthering Heights" :— The writer who possesses the creative gift, owns something...lay down rules and devise principles, and to rules * In " Villette," Lucy Snowe begins by disclaiming an unregulated imagination. It was a perilous thing... | |
 | Theology - 1870 - 588 pages
...to Wuthering Heights, she said: "Whether it is right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know; I scarcely think it is. But this I...principles it will perhaps for years lie in subjection, and thru. haply, without any warning of revolt, there comes a time when it will no longer consent to '... | |
 | Emily Brontė - 1870 - 488 pages
...life — a Ghoul — an, Afreet. Whether it is right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know : I scarcely think it is. But this I...something that, at times, strangely wills and works for itselfc He may lay down rules and devise principles, and to rules and principles it will perhaps for... | |
 | Charlotte Brontė - 1873 - 534 pages
...life — a Ghoul — an Afreet. Whether it is right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know : I scarcely think it is. But this I...years lie in subjection ; and then, haply without any warning of revolt, there comes a time when it will no longer consent to " harrow the valleys, or be... | |
 | 1873 - 842 pages
...Heathcliff, Currer Bell scarcely thought the creation of such beings justifiable, but she goes on to say that "the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something...that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself." We are afraid that if this opinion were pushed to its logical issues it would be found incapable of... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1873 - 802 pages
...Currer Bell scarcely thought the creation of such beings justifiable, but she goes on to say that " the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something...that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself." We are afraid that if this opinion were pushed to its logical issues it would be found incapable of... | |
 | 1873 - 746 pages
...Currer Bell scarcely thought the creation of such beings justifiable, but she goes on to say that " the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something...that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself." We are afraid that if this opinion were pushed to its logical issues it would be found incapable of... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1873 - 840 pages
...Currer Bell scarcely thought the creation of such beings justifiable, but she goes on to say that " the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something...that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself." We are afraid that if this opinion were pushed to its logical issues it would be found incapable of... | |
 | American literature - 1873 - 808 pages
...scarcely thought the creation of such beings justifiable, but she goes on to say that " the writer wjio possesses the creative gift owns something of which...that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself." We are afraid that if this opinion were pushed to its logical issues it would be found incapable- of... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1873 - 804 pages
...justifiable, but she goes on to say that " the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something ef which he is not always master — something that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself." We are afraid that if this opinion were pushed to its logical issues it would be found incapable of... | |
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