 Day by day when I saw with what a front she met suffering, I looked on her with an anguish of wonder and love. I have seen nothing like it; but, indeed, I have never seen her parallel in anything. Stronger than a man, simpler than a child, her nature...  Littell's Living Age - Page 2051851Full view - About this book
 | American periodicals - 1851 - 604 pages
...Yet, while physically she perished, mentally she grew stronger than we had yet known her. Day by day, when I saw with what a front she met suffering, I looked on her with nn anguish of wonder and love. I have seen nothing like it ; but, indeed, I have never «een her parallel... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1855 - 590 pages
...Yet, while physically she perished, mentally she grew stronger than we had yet known her. Day by day, when I saw with what a front she met suffering, I looked on her with an anguibh of wonder and love. I have seen nothing like it ; but, indeed, I have never seen her parallel... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1857 - 640 pages
...hefore her, and she did not linger now. She sank rapidly. She made haste to leave us. .... Day hy day, when I saw with what a front she met suffering, I...stood alone. The awful point was that, while full of ruth for others, on herself she had no pity; the spirit was inexorable to the flesh; from the trembling... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Authors, English - 1857 - 352 pages
...before her, and she did not linger now. She sank rapidly. She made haste to leave us. .... Day by day, when I saw with what a front she met suffering, I...stood alone. The awful point was that, while full of ruth for others, on herself she had no pity; the spirit was inexorable to the flesh ; from the trembling... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Novelists, English - 1857 - 304 pages
...made haste to leave us. ... Day by day, when I saw with what a front she met suffering, I looked OD her with an anguish of wonder and love. I have seen...stood alone. The awful point was that while full of ruth for others, on herself she had no pity ; the spirit was inexorable to the flesh ; from the trembling... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1857 - 802 pages
...before her, and she did not linger now. She sank rapidly. She made haste to leave us. ... Day by day, when I saw with what a front she met suffering, I...anguish of wonder and love. I have seen nothing like it ; hut, indeed, I have never seen her parallel in anything. Stronger than a man, simpler than a child,... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Novelists, English - 1857 - 306 pages
...before her, and she did not linger now. She sank rapidly. She made haste to leave us. ... Day by day, when I saw with what a front she met suffering, I looked o» her with an anguish of wonder and love. I have seen nothing like it ; but, indeed, I have never... | |
 | Benjamin John Wallace, Albert Barnes - Presbyterian Church - 1858 - 720 pages
...before her, and she did not linger now. She sank rapidly. She made haste to leave us. ... Day by day, when I saw with what a front she met suffering, I...her with an anguish of wonder and love. I have seen nui. mi ' like it; but, indeed, I have never seen her parallel in anything. Stronger than a man, simpler... | |
 | 1858 - 754 pages
...wound with a red-hot iron, actually occurred to Emily. In her illness her sister thus writes of her: "Stronger than a man, simpler than a child, her nature...stood alone. The awful point was, that, while full of ruth for others, on herself she had no pity; the spirit was inexorable to the flesh ; from the trembling... | |
 | Samuel Lucas - Authors - 1859 - 378 pages
...lay before her, and she did not linger now. She sauk rapidly. She made haste to leave us Day by day, when I saw with what a front she met suffering, I...simpler than a child, her nature stood alone. The awful * The circumstances of his supposed relations with this lady have since been explained in her vindication,... | |
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