The Novels of the Sisters Brontë ...: Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë

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J. M. Dent, 1905
 

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Стр. xxii - There is a man in our own days whose words are not framed to tickle delicate ears: who, to my thinking, comes before the great ones of society, much as the son of Imlah came before the throned Kings of Judah and Israel; and who speaks truth as deep, with a power as prophet-like and as vital - a mien as dauntless and as daring. Is the satirist of Vanity Fair admired in high places?
Стр. 42 - A ridge of lighted heath, alive, glancing, devouring, would have been a meet emblem of my mind when I accused and menaced Mrs Reed; the same ridge, black and blasted after the flames are dead, would have represented as meetly my subsequent condition, when half an hour's silence and reflection had shown me the madness of my conduct, and the dreariness of my hated and hating position.
Стр. 128 - ... then I longed for a power of vision which might overpass that limit; which might reach the busy world, towns, regions full of life I had heard of but never...
Стр. 186 - I saw beyond its wild waters a shore, sweet as the hills of Beulah ; and now and then a freshening gale wakened by hope, bore my spirit triumphantly towards the bourne : but I could not reach it, even in fancy, — a counteracting breeze blew off land, and continually drove me back. Sense would resist delirium : judgment would warn passion. Too feverish to rest, I rose as soon as day dawned.
Стр. 59 - I have heard of day-dreams — is she in a day-dream now? Her eyes are fixed on the floor, but I am sure they do not see it — her sight seems turned in, gone down into her heart : she is looking at what she can remember, I believe ; not at what is really present. I wonder what sort of a girl she is — whether good or naughty...
Стр. 115 - ... proportions not vast, though considerable : a gentleman's manor-house, not a nobleman's seat : battlements round the top gave it a picturesque look. Its grey front stood out well from the background of a rookery, whose cawing tenants were now on the wing : they flew over the lawn and grounds to alight in a great meadow, from which these were separated by a sunk fence, and where an array of mighty old thorn trees, strong, knotty, and broad as oaks, at once explained the etymology of the mansion's...
Стр. xxiii - I think I see in him an intellect profounder and more unique than his contemporaries have yet recognised ; because I regard him as the first social regenerator of the day — as the very master of that working corps who would restore to rectitude the warped system of things...
Стр. 18 - At last both slept; the fire and the candle went out. For me, the watches of that long night passed in ghastly wakefulness; ear, eye, and mind were alike strained by dread; such dread as children only can feel. No severe or prolonged bodily illness followed this incident of the red-room: it only gave my nerves a shock, of which I feel the reverberation to this day. Yes, Mrs. Reed, to you I owe some fearful pangs of mental suffering. But I ought to forgive you, for you knew not what you did: while...
Стр. 53 - A quarter of an hour passed before lessons again began, during which the schoolroom was in a glorious tumult; for that space of time it seemed to be permitted to talk loud and more freely, and they used their privilege. The whole conversation ran on the breakfast, which one and all abused roundly. Poor things! it was the sole consolation they had. Miss Miller was now the only teacher in the room: a group of great girls standing about her spoke with serious and sullen gestures. I heard the name of...
Стр. 16 - THE next thing I remember is, waking up with a feeling as if I had had a frightful night-mare, and seeing before me a terrible red glare, crossed with thick black bars.

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