 My sister Emily was not a person of demonstrative character, nor one on the recesses of whose mind and feelings, even those nearest and dearest to her could, with impunity, intrude unlicensed ; it took hours to reconcile her to the discovery I had made,...  The Life of Charlotte Brontë - Page 329by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1857Full view - About this book
 | American periodicals - 1851 - 604 pages
...conviction that these were not common effusions, nor at all like the poetry women generally write. * * Meantime, my younger sister quietly produced some...at hers. I could not but be a partial judge, yet I thonght that these verses too had a sweet sincere pathos of their own. We had very early cherished... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - Periodicals - 1855 - 780 pages
...nor one on the recesses of whose mind and feelings, even the nearest and dearest to her could intrude unlicensed — it took hours to reconcile her to the discovery I had made (of her poetical attempts). In Anne, there was a constitutional reserve and taciturnity, which placed... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Novelists, English - 1857 - 324 pages
...recesses of whose mind and feelings, even those nearest and dearest to her could, with impunity, intrude unlicensed : it took hours to reconcile her to the...compositions, intimating that since Emily's had given PEINTING THE POEMS. 271 me pleasure, I might like to look at hers. I could not but be a partial judge,... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1862 - 612 pages
...feelings, even those nearest and dearest to her could, with impunity, intrude unlicensed : it took hoars to reconcile her to the discovery I had made, and...that such poems merited publication. Meantime, my youuger sister quietly produced some of her own compositions, intimating that since Emily's had given... | |
 | John Tomlinson - Yorkshire (England) - 1865 - 246 pages
...recesses of whose mind and feelings even those nearest and dearest to her could, with impunity, intrude unlicensed ; it took hours to reconcile her to the...persuade her that such poems merited publication. I knew, however, that a mind like hers could not be withnut some latent spark of honourable ambition,... | |
 | Emily Brontë - 1870 - 488 pages
...recesses of whose mind and feelings, even those nearest and dearest to her could, with impunity, intrude unlicensed ; it took hours to reconcile her to the...persuade her that such poems merited publication. I knew, however, that a mind like hers could not be without some latent spark of honourable ambition,... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1873 - 534 pages
...recesses of whose mind and feelings, even those nearest and dearest to her could, with impunity, intrude unlicensed ; it took hours to reconcile her to the...persuade her that such poems merited publication. I knew, however, that a mind like hers could not be without some latent spark of honourable ambition,... | |
 | Agnes Mary Frances Robinson - Authors, English - 1883 - 336 pages
...spark of honorable ambition, and refused to be discouraged in my attempts to fan that spark to flame. " Meantime, my younger sister quietly produced some...Emily's had given me pleasure, I might like to look at some of hers. I could not but be a partial judge, yet I thought that these verses, too, had a sweet... | |
 | Francis A. Leyland - Authors, English - 1886 - 320 pages
...recesses of whose mind and feelings even those nearest and dearest to her could, with impunity, intrude unlicensed; it took hours to reconcile her to the...persuade her that such poems merited publication.' Charlotte Bronte here grasped, with unfailing precision, the very secret spell which we find in Emily's... | |
 | Emily Brontë - 1889 - 476 pages
...to her could, with impunity, intrude unlicensed ; it took hours to reconcile her to the discovery 1 had made, and days to persuade her that such poems merited publication. I knew, however, that a mind like hers could no; be without some latent spark of honourable ambition,... | |
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