Jane Eyre, Volume 1Downey & Company, Limited, 1898 |
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Abbot Adèle answer asked Bessie Brocklehurst called candle chair Charlotte Brontë child cold Colonel Dent cried curtain dare dark door drawing-room dressed Eliza Eshton eyes face Fairfax fear feel felt fire gallery Gateshead gentlemen Georgiana girl glance governess Grace Gytrash hair hall hand head heard heart Helen Burns hour Jane Eyre John Reed knew lady laugh Leah light listen looked Lowood Lowton Madame mamma Mary Ann Wilson master Millcote mind minutes Miss Eyre Miss Ingram Miss Jane Miss Miller Miss Scatcherd Miss Temple morning never night nurse pale passed pleasure pupil Reed returned Rochester Rochester's rose round schoolroom seat seemed servants silence smile soon Sophie speak stood strange sure talk tell thing Thornfield Thornfield Hall thought to-night took turned voice walk window wish wonder word
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Página 168 - Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn...
Página v - Or where the Northern Ocean., in vast whirls, Boils round the naked melancholy isles Of farthest Thule, and the Atlantic surge Pours in among the stormy Hebrides; Who can recount what transmigrations there Are annual made? what nations come and go? And how the living clouds on clouds arise? Infinite wings ! till all the plume-dark air And rude resounding shore are one wild cry.
Página 82 - ... the impalpable principle of life and thought, pure as when it left the Creator to inspire the creature : whence it came it will return ; perhaps again to be communicated to some being higher than man — perhaps to pass through gradations of glory, from the pale human soul to brighten to the seraph...
Página iii - ... and a rain so penetrating, that further out-door exercise was now out of the question. I was glad of it: I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight, with nipped fingers and toes, and a heart saddened by the chidings of Bessie, the nurse, and humbled by the consciousness of my physical inferiority to Eliza, John, and Georgiana Reed.
Página iv - ... keeping me at a distance; but that until she heard from Bessie, and could discover by her own observation, that I was endeavouring in good earnest to acquire a more sociable and childlike disposition, a more attractive and sprightly manner - something lighter, franker, more natural, as it were - she really must exclude me from privileges intended only for contented, happy, little children/' "What does Bessie say I have done?
Página 21 - What other things? Can you tell me some of them?" How much I wished to reply fully to this question! How difficult it was to frame any answer! Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the result of the process in words.
Página 37 - Do you read your Bible?" "Sometimes." "With pleasure? Are you fond of it?" "I like Revelations, and the book of Daniel, and Genesis and Samuel, and a little bit of Exodus, and some parts of Kings and Chronicles, and Job and Jonah.
Página 15 - 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 rending my heartstrings, you thought you were only up-rooting...
Página 67 - No - two miles off, at a large hall.' 'Is he a good man?' 'He is a clergyman, and is said to do a great deal of good.
Página 88 - You are aware that my plan in bringing up these girls is, not to accustom them to habits of luxury and indulgence, but to render them hardy, patient, self-denying. Should any little accidental disappointment of the appetite occur, such as the spoiling of a meal, the under or...