Two Great Englishwomen, Mrs. Browning & Charlott Brontë: With an Essay on Poetry, Illustrated from Wordsworth, Burns, and ByronJ. Clarke, 1881 - 340 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
Arnold aunt Aurora Leigh beautiful Branwell Brontë breath Brontë sisters brow Browning Browning's Burns Byron calm character Charlotte Brontë child Christ clouds colour criticism curse dark dead death Drama of Exile earth Emily Brontë English eyes face father feel flowers G. H. Lewes genius George Eliot girl hand heart Heathcliff heaven hills human imagination Jane Eyre Lady Waldemar lines Linton live look lover Lucifer lyric Marian Erle melody Milton moors mother nature never night noble pale Paradise Regained passage passion perhaps poem poet poetic poetry pride prose Rochester Romney Leigh scorn seems sense Shirley sisters smile sonnet soul speak spirit stanzas Suwarrow sweet sympathy tell tenderness thee thing Thornfield Thornfield Hall thou thought tion Toll slowly touch true truth verse woman women words Wordsworth write Wuthering Heights Yorkshire young
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Página xxviii - Listen! You hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling, At their return, up the high strand, Begin, and cease, and then again begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in.
Página 85 - Of all the thoughts of God that are Borne inward unto souls afar, Along the Psalmist's music deep, Now tell me if that any is, For gift or grace, surpassing this — " He giveth His beloved, sleep...
Página lxxi - The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder...
Página lxi - THAT AND A' THAT" Is there, for honest Poverty, That hangs his head, and a' that! The coward slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a
Página 51 - Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years? They are leaning their young heads against their mothers, And that cannot stop their tears. The young lambs are bleating in the meadows, The young birds are chirping in the nest, The young fawns are playing with the shadows, The young flowers are blowing toward the west But the young, young children, O my brothers, They are weeping bitterly ! They are weeping in the playtime of the others, In the country of the free.
Página 224 - My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning: my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger: I should not seem a part of it.
Página 52 - For all day the wheels are droning, turning; Their wind comes in our faces, Till our hearts turn, our heads with pulses burning, And the walls turn in their places: Turns the sky in the high window blank and reeling, Turns the long light that drops adown the wall, Turn the black flies that crawl along the ceiling, All are turning, all the day, and we with all. And all day the iron wheels are droning, And sometimes we could pray, 'O ye wheels' (breaking out in a mad moaning) 'Stop!
Página li - If thou be one whose heart the holy forms Of young imagination have kept pure, Stranger ! henceforth be warned; and know, that pride, Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness; that he, who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used; that thought with him 50 Is in its infancy.
Página 86 - That this low breath is gone from me, And round my bier ye come to weep, Let One most loving of you all Say...
Página xvi - One adequate support For the calamities of mortal life Exists — one only; an assured belief That the procession of our fate, howe'er Sad or disturbed, is ordered by a Being Of infinite benevolence and power; Whose everlasting purposes embrace All accidents, converting them to good.