... 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... Jane Eyre - Page 109de Charlotte Brontë - 1890 - 464 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| Charlotte Brontë - 1850 - 336 pages
...themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if...sex. When thus alone, I not unfrequently heard Grace Poolers laugh: the same peal, the same low, slow ha! ha! which, when first heard, had thrilled me:... | |
| Charlotte Brontë - 1850 - 500 pages
...themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if...than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex. p b le earth. Women are supposed to be very calm generally ; When thus alone, I not unfrequehtly heard... | |
| baroness Rosina Doyle Bulwer- Lytton - 1858 - 1052 pages
...themselves to making puddings, and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano, or embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if...than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex." JANE ETBB, Page 109. iSfjf-^S they neared the hall-door, poor Mary's tears (ppl|{| again became uncontrollable,... | |
| 1859 - 684 pages
...themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them if they...sex. When thus alone, I not unfrequently heard Grace Pople's laugh: the same — the same peal, the same low, slow ha ! ha ! which, when first heard, had... | |
| Charlotte Brontë - 1864 - 506 pages
...themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if...not unfrequently heard Grace Poole's laugh: the same — the same peal, the same low, slow ha! ha ! which, when first heard, had thrilled me ; I heard,... | |
| Charlotte Brontë - 1872 - 520 pages
...themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if...slow ha ! ha ! which; when first heard, had thrilled me : I heard, too, her eccentric murmurs ; stranger than her laugh. There were days when she was quite... | |
| 1885 - 696 pages
...suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is thoughtless to condemn them or laugh at them, if they...than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex." The final test of this question of occupations for educated women is met squarely in the case of a... | |
| Peter Bayne - 1881 - 426 pages
...Fairfax, frequently walked in meditative mood in the weird corridor. " When thus alone," she says, "I not unfrequently heard Grace Poole's laugh : the...slow ha ! ha ! which, when first heard, had thrilled me : I heard, too, her eccentric murmurs, stranger than her laugh. Sometimes I saw her : she would... | |
| Charlotte Brontë, Laura Carter Holloway - 1883 - 168 pages
...themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them if they...than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex. Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed ; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter... | |
| Charlotte Brontë - 1885 - 410 pages
...themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if...Poole's laugh ; the same peal, the same low, slow ha I ha 1 which, when first heard, had thrilled me ; I heard, too, her eccentric murmurs ; stranger than... | |
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