 You held out your hand for an egg, and fate put into it a scorpion. Show no consternation: close your fingers firmly upon the gift; let it sting through your palm. Never mind : in time, after your hand and arm have swelled and quivered long with torture,...  The Makers of English Fiction - Strana 132autor/autoři: William James Dawson - 1905 - 316 str.Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1849 - 316 str.
...scorpion. Show no consternation : close your fingers firmly upon the gift ; let it sting through your palm. Never mind: in time, after your hand and arm...it — you will be stronger, wiser, less sensitive. This you are not aware of, perhaps, at the time, and so cannot borrow courage of that hope. Nature,... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1859 - 582 str.
...elose your fingers firmly upon the gift; let it sting through your palm. Never mind : in time, alter your hand and arm have swelled and quivered long with...remnant of your life, if you survive the test—. •ome, it is said, die under it—you will be stronger, wiser, less sensitive. This you are not aware... | |
 | 1867 - 894 str.
...yet must show no consternation, but close her fingers firmly on the gift, let it «tine; through her palm. " Never mind : in time, after your hand and...the squeezed scorpion will die, and you will have learnt the great lesson how to endure without a sob Nature is an excellent friend in such cases; sealing... | |
 | 1867 - 514 str.
...yet must show no consternation, but close her fingers firmly on the gift, let it sting through her palm. "Never mind: in time, after your hand and arm...the squeezed scorpion will die, and you will have learnt the great lesson how to endure without a sob Nature is an excellent friend in such cases; sealing... | |
 | 1870 - 588 str.
...it sting through your palm. Never mind : in time, after your hand has swelled and quivered with the torture, the squeezed scorpion will die, and you will...— you will be stronger, wiser, less sensitive." And yet it is very easy now for us to see that, without the suffering that mnketh wise and strong,... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1870 - 550 str.
...scorpion. Show no consternation: close your fingers firmly upon the gift ; let it sting through your palm. Never mind : in time, after your hand and arm...have learned the great lesson how to endure without a eob. For the whole remnant of your life, if you survive the test — some, it is said, die under it... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1872 - 608 str.
...scorpion. Show no consternation : close your gers firmly upon the gift ; let it sting through your palm. Never mind : in time, after your hand and arm...it — you will be stronger, wiser, less sensitive. This you are not aware of, perhaps, at the time, and so cannot borrow courage of that hope. Nature,... | |
 | Peter Bayne - 1881 - 428 str.
...scorpion. Show no consternation : close your fingers firmly upon the gift ; let it sting through your palm. Never mind. In time, after your hand and arm...learned the great lesson how to endure without a sob." This is the ethical lesson which Charlotte Bronte never tires of enforcing, but necessity generally... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë, Laura Carter Holloway - 1883 - 168 str.
...scorpion. Show no consternation. Close your fingers firmly upon the gift : let it sting through your palm. Never mind. In time, after your hand and arm...it — you will be stronger, wiser, less sensitive. This you are not aware of, perhaps, at the time, and so cannot borrow courage of that hope. Nature,... | |
 | AUGUSTINE BIRREL - 1887 - 204 str.
...scorpion. Show no consternation ; close your fingers firmly upon the gift; let it sting through your palm. Never mind: in time, after your hand and arm...the whole remnant of your life, if you survive the test—some, it is said, die under it—you will be stronger, wiser, less sensitive. This you are not... | |
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