 Meantime, my younger sister quietly produced some of her own compositions, intimating that, since Emily's had given me pleasure, I might like to look at hers. I could not but be a partial judge, yet I thought that these verses, too, had a sweet sincere...  The Eclectic Review - Page 2041851Full view - About this book
 | 1851 - 604 pages
...that these were not common effusions, nor at all like the poetry women generally write. * * Meantime, my younger sister quietly produced some of her own...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... | |
 | 1855 - 784 pages
...genuine. To my ear, they had also a peculiar music — wild, melancholy, and elevating. . . . Meantime, my younger sister quietly produced some of her own...verses, too, had a sweet, sincere pathos of their own. We had very early cherished the dream of one day becoming authors. This dream, never relinquished,... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1857 - 376 pages
...to the discovery I had made, and days to persuade her that such poems merited publication Meantime, my younger sister quietly produced some of her own...verses too had a sweet sincere pathos of their own. We had very early cherished the dream of one day being authors We agreed to arrange a small selection... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1857 - 384 pages
...to the discovery I had made, and days to persuade her that such poems merited publication Meantime, my younger sister quietly produced some of her own...verses too had a sweet sincere pathos of their own. We had very early cherished the dream of one day being authors We agreed to arrange a small selection... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1857 - 324 pages
...to the discovery I had made, and days to persuade her that such poems merited publication Meantime, my younger sister quietly produced some of her own...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
...discovery I had made, and days to persuade her that such poems merited publication. Meantime, my youuger sister quietly produced some of her own compositions,...verses too had a sweet sincere pathos of their own. We had very early cherished the dream of one day being authors We agreed to arrange a small selection... | |
 | John Tomlinson - 1865 - 246 pages
...honourable ambition, and refused to be discouraged in my attempts to fan that spark to flame. " Meantime, my younger sister quietly produced some of her own...verses, too, had a sweet sincere pathos of their own. " We had very early cherished the dream of becoming authors. This dream, never relinquished even when... | |
 | Emily Brontë - 1870 - 488 pages
...honourable ambition, and refused to be discouraged in my attempts to fan that spark to flame. Meantime, my younger sister quietly produced some of her own...Emily's had given me pleasure, I might like to look at hera. 1 could not but be a partial judge, yet I thought that these T?rsies, too, had a sweet sincere... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1873 - 492 pages
...discovery I had made, and days to persuade her that such poems merited publication. . . . Meantime, my younger sister quietly produced some of her own...verses too had a sweet sincere pathos of their own. We had very early cherished the dream of one day being authors. . . . We agreed to arrange a small... | |
 | Peter Bayne - 1881 - 428 pages
...poems. They were produced, and again the judgment proved favourable. " I thought," says Charlotte, " that these verses too had a sweet, sincere pathos of their own." If to " sweet, sincere pathos " we add unaffected and graceful feeling, and correct, easy, not unmelodious... | |
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