 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
 | George Barnett Smith - Authors, American - 1875 - 552 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... | |
 | Peter Bayne - English poetry - 1881 - 428 pages
...Wuthering Heights. " Whether," she says, " 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... | |
 | Emily Brontë - 1889 - 476 pages
...demon 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...creative gift owns something of which he is not always master—something that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself. He may lay down rules and... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - Authors, English - 1893 - 326 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... | |
 | Emily Brontë - 1894 - 528 pages
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 | Charlotte Brontë - English literature - 1896 - 334 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... | |
 | Literature, Modern - 1903 - 758 pages
...God, bloweth where it listeth. That which Charlotte Bronte herBelf has told us is perfectly true. " The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something...that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself." Scarcely any scene in fiction surpasses in tragic power that in which Jane, straggling with herself,... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1905 - 538 pages
...demon 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 know ; the writer who possesses the L creative gift owns something of which he is not always master — something that, at times, strangely... | |
 | Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - English literature - 1911 - 488 pages
...faithfully close to the giant's feet. Whether it is right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff I do not know ; I scarcely think it is. But this I...creative gift owns something of which he is not always master—something that, at times, strangely works and wills for itself. He may.lay down rules and... | |
 | John Arthur Hill - Parapsychology - 1919 - 138 pages
...case in language unsurpassed as well for psychological accuracy as for literary power and charm : " But this I know ; the writer who possesses the creative...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... | |
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