 Nova Zembla, Iceland, Greenland, with "the vast sweep of the Arctic Zone, and those forlorn regions of dreary space, — that reservoir of frost and snow, where firm fields of ice, the accumulation of centuries of winters, glazed in Alpine heights above...  Jane Eyre - Page 4de Charlotte Brontë - 1864 - 483 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1905 - 450 pages
...Nor could I pass unnoticed the suggestion of the bleak shores of Lapland, Siberia, Spitzbergen, Nova Zembla, Iceland, Greenland, with "the vast sweep of...heights, surround the pole, and concentre the multiplied rigours of extreme cold." Of these death-white realms I formed an idea of my own : shadowy, like all... | |
 | George Levine, U. C. Knoepflmacher - 1982 - 368 pages
...Nor could I pass unnoticed the suggestion of the bleak shores of Lapland, Siberia, Spitzbergen, Nova Zembla, Iceland, Greenland, with "the vast sweep of...pole, and concentre the multiplied rigors of extreme cold."4 Here is an epic roll-call of the coldest and loneliest places on earth, in all their frigid... | |
 | Nancy Armstrong - 1987 - 318 pages
...of British Birds. Self-conscious of the process, she describes the plates portraying arctic birds: "Of these death-white realms I formed an idea of my own: shadowy, like all the half-comprehended notions that float through children's brains, but strangely impressive" (p. 6). Of... | |
 | Eugenia C. DeLamotte - 1990 - 367 pages
...images of solitude, persecution, melancholy, and death. "[T]he solitary rocks and promontories" . . . "the vast sweep of the Arctic Zone, and those forlorn...reservoir of frost and snow, where firm fields of ice ... concentre the multiplied rigours of extreme cold". . . . death- white realms. . . . the rock standing... | |
 | Richard W. Bevis - 1999 - 442 pages
..."Autumn"] pass unnoticed the suggestion of the bleak shores of Lapland, Siberia, Spitzbergen, Nova Zembla, Iceland, Greenland, with "the vast sweep of...death-white realms I formed an idea of my own: shadowy . . . but strangely impressive (C. Bronte, nd, 2). There are no tales of warmth at the Pole here: scene... | |
 | Gavriel Reisner - 2003 - 286 pages
..."those forlorn regions of dreary space—that reservoir of frost and snow, where firm fields of ice ... surround the pole, and concentre the multiplied rigors...I formed an idea of my own: shadowy, like all the half-comprehended notions that float dim through children's brains, but strangely impressive. The words... | |
 | Sidney I. Dobrin, Kenneth B. Kidd - 2004 - 326 pages
...young heroine poring over the pages of Bewick's British Birds as Jane ponders the images of the North: Of these death-white realms I formed an idea of my own; shadowy, like all the half comprehended notions that float dim through children's brains, but strangely impressive. The words... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, Emily Brontë - 2005 - 1384 pages
...Nor could I pass unnoticed the suggestion of the bleak shores of Lapland, Siberia, Spitzbergen, Nova Zembla, Iceland, Greenland, with 'the vast sweep of...heights, surround the pole and concentre the multiplied rigours of extreme cold.' Of these death-white realms I formed an idea of my own: shadowy, like all... | |
 | Wordsworth - 2005 - 1310 pages
...Nor could I pass unnoticed the suggestion of the bleak shores of Lapland, Siberia, Spitsbergen, Nova Zembla, Iceland, Greenland, with 'the vast sweep of...heights, surround the pole and concentre the multiplied rigours of extreme cold.' Of these death-white realms I formed an idea of my own: shadowy, like all... | |
 | Jennifer Phegley, Janet Badia - 2005 - 313 pages
...succeeding vignettes,' she explains (5, italics mine). Jane translates the verbal text into visual images: 'Of these death-white realms I formed an idea of my own: shadowy, like all the half-comprehended notions that float dim through children's brains' (6). In the introductory pages... | |
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