 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
 | Edward Larrissy - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 266 pages
...her 'Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell'. Charlotte Bronte comments that Emily Bronte was '[s]tronger than a man, simpler than a child, her nature stood alone' (reprinted in Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights, ed. David Daiches (London: Penguin, 1965), p. 35.) By... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - Authors, English - 1995 - 866 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...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... | |
 | Deborah G. Felder, Deborah Felder - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 388 pages
...1816-1855 Emily Bronte 1818-1848 What passion, what fire in her! — GEORGE ELIOT On Charlotte Bronte Stronger than a man, simpler than a child, her nature stood alone. — CHARLOTTE BRONTE On Emily Bronte 147 A,, Imost as compelling as Charlotte and Emily Bronte's singular... | |
 | Richard Eugene Mezo - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 114 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...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... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, Emily Brontë - Fiction - 2005 - 1384 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...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... | |
 | 494 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...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... | |
 | New York (N.Y.) - 1851 - 598 pages
...Tet, 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...it ; but, indeed, I have never seen her parallel in any thing. Stronger than a man, simpler than a child, her nature stood alone. The awful point was,... | |
 | Hugh Walker - English literature - 1964 - 1084 pages
...him. " I have never seen her parallel in anything," writes her sister in the Biographical Notice. " Stronger than a man, simpler than a child, her nature stood alone." The book she wrote stands alone too. Wuthering Heights is a novel of extraordinary power, going far, with... | |
 | 136 pages
...certainly spring at the throat of anyone who struck him. After her death, Charlotte wrote of her: " She was stronger than a man, simpler than a child, her nature stood alone." Branwell the brother was dead ; his going was a relief to all ; but when Emily went, and then the gentle... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1916 - 656 pages
...almost adored Emily. "I think Kmily seems the nearest thing to my heart in the world," she said; and, "Stronger than a man, simpler than a child, her nature stood alone." Indeed it did; and no one really knew her, though Emily made a special pet of quiet little Anne, and... | |
| |
