I looked at the sky; it was pure: a kindly star twinkled just above the chasm ridge. The dew fell, but with propitious softness; no breeze whispered. Nature seemed to me benign and good; I thought she loved me, outcast as I was; and I, who from man could... Jane Eyre - Page 343de Charlotte Brontë - 1864 - 483 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| 1859 - 684 pages
...>nly mistrust, rejection, insult, clung to her with filial fondness. To-night, at least, I would 3e P3 t 6 D ~ e> *I ՆcMFTT# q E c*Bl x˒ 7cc~ ~C @$...7_V 8~h ? ? o +?P | V. - e ^B6 ra v p qi hrough at noon with a stray penny — my last coin. I saw ripe bilberries gleaming here and there,... | |
| Alphonse Mariette - 1860 - 404 pages
...certain repulse incurred, before my tale could be listened to, or one of my wants relieved! . . . . I had one morsel of bread yet: the remnant of a roll...in a town we passed through at noon, with a stray penny—my last coin. I saw ripe bilberries gleaming here and there like jet beads in the heath. I... | |
| Charlotte Brontë - 1872 - 520 pages
...my wants relieved ! I touched the heath : it was dry, and yet warm with the heat of the summer-day. I looked at the sky; it was pure: a kindly star twinkled...jet beads in the heath : I gathered a handful and ate them with the bread. My hunger, sharp before, was, if not satisfied, appeased by this hermit's... | |
| Charlotte Brontë - 1890 - 494 pages
...twinkled just above the chasm ridge. The dew fell, but with propitious softness; no breeze whispeied. Nature seemed to me benign and good; I thought she...like jet beads in the heath: I gathered a handful and ate them with my bread. My hunger, sharp before, was, if not satisfied, appeased by this hermit's meal.... | |
| Charlotte Brontë - 1905 - 400 pages
...my wants relieved ! I touched the heath ; it was dry, and yet warm with the heat of the summer-day. I looked at the sky ; it was pure ; a kindly star...jet beads in the heath : I gathered a handful and ate them with the bread. My hunger, sharp before, was, if not VOL. n. 145 L satisfied, appeased by... | |
| 1919 - 538 pages
...under it. High banks of moor were about me ; the crag protected my head : the sky was over that. . I touched the heath ; it was dry, and yet warm with...mother would lodge me without money and without price. Inanimate Objects Represented as Sympathizing with Characters. — Hawthorne in " The Marble Faun "... | |
| Barbara Hill Rigney - 1978 - 164 pages
...rejection, insult, clung to her with filial fondness. Tonight, at least, I would be her guest—as I was her child: my mother would lodge me without money and without price (412-13). Jane is thus so absorbed in her own search for the mother that she at least subconsciously... | |
| Jerome J. McGann - 1989 - 248 pages
..."I have no relative but the universal mother, Nature: I will seek her breast and ask repose. . . . Nature seemed to me benign and good; I thought she...mother would lodge me without money and without price" (pp. 349—50). But the fantasied "good mother" has its other, darker side; in the sequence that follows... | |
| Barbara Thaden - 1997 - 180 pages
...seemed to be benign and good; 1 thought she loved me, outcast as 1 was ... 1 would be her guest— as 1 was her child: my mother would lodge me without money and without price'" (285). These references are in keeping with the inner voice (or sometimes outer voice) that guides... | |
| Lorna Ellis - 1999 - 220 pages
...of Jane's alienation in a typically Romantic setting, engulfed by nature, alone on a heath at night: "Nature seemed to me benign and good: I thought she...mother would lodge me without money and without price" (Bronte 1991, 328). But Jane's alienation is quickly given more material aspects: "I was a human being,... | |
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