Agnes GreyJ. Grant, 1905 - Počet stran: 301 Drawing directly on her own experiences, Anne Brontë describes the isolation and dark ambiguity of the governes's life as lived by her fictional heroine Agnes Grey. Mature, insightful, and edged with a quiet irony, this first novel by the youngest of the Brontë displays her keen sense of moral responsibility and sharp eye for bourgeois attitudes and behavior. |
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Strana 40 - permitted to depart, but first, with great pomp, he plucked a polyanthus and presented it to me, as one conferring a prodigious favour. I observed, on the grass about his garden, certain apparatus of sticks and cord, and asked what they were. "Traps for birds." " Why do you catch them ? " " Papa says they do harm.
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Strana 34 - among its strange inhabitants. But how was it to be done ? True, I was near nineteen, but, thanks to my retired life and the protecting care of my mother and sister, I well knew that many a girl of fifteen, or under, was gifted with a more womanly address, and greater ease and self-possession, than
Strana 267 - shadow of the distant hills, or of the earth itself; and, in sympathy for the busy citizens of the rookery, I regretted to see their habitation, so lately bathed in glorious light, reduced to the sombre, work-aday hue of the lower world, or of my own world within. For a moment, such birds as
Strana 212 - CHAPTER XVII. CONFESSIONS. As I am in the way of confessions, I may as well acknowledge that, about this time, I paid more attention to dress than ever I had done before. This is not saying much; for hitherto I had been a little neglectful in that particular: but now, also, it
Strana 145 - Oh, she's a canting old fool.' "And I was very ill grieved, Miss Grey ! But I went to my seat, and I tried to do my duty as aforetime : but I like got no peace. An' I even took the sacrament; but I felt as though I were eating and drinking
Strana 73 - got my supper, in spite of you : and I haven't picked up a single thing !" The only person in the house who had any real sympathy for me was the nurse; for she had suffered like afflictions, though in a smaller degree ; as she had not the task of teaching, nor was she
Strana 204 - Fix that man." " What in the world do you mean ? " " I mean that he will go home and dream of me. I have shot him through the heart! " " How do you know ? " "By many infallible proofs: more especially the look he gave me when he went away. It was not an impudent look—I
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The Belgian Essays Charlotte Brontë,Emily Brontë,Sue Lonoff de Cuevas Náhled není k dispozici. - 1996 |