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" Day by day, when I saw with what a front she met suffering, I looked on her with an anguish of wonder and love. I have seen nothing like it; but, indeed, I have never seen her parallel in anything. Stronger than a man, simpler than a child, her nature... "
The Christian reformer; or, Unitarian magazine and review [ed. by R. Aspland]. - Page 296
edited by - 1857
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 1

English literature - 1851 - 902 pages
...met suffering, I looked on her with an anguish of wonder and love. I have seen nothing like it ; but, indeed, I have never seen her parallel in anything....stood alone. The awful point was, that, while full of truth for others, on herself she had no pity ; the spirit was inexorable to the flesh ; from the trembling...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 22

American periodicals - 1851 - 606 pages
...parallel in anything. Stronger than a man, simpler than a chifd, her nature stood alone. The awful iioint was, that, while full of ruth for others, on herself...spirit was inexorable to the flesh : from the trembling hand, the unnerved limite, the faded eyes, the same service was exacted as they had rendered in health....
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 35

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1855 - 590 pages
...met suffering, I looked on her with an anguibh of wonder and love. I have seen nothing like it ; but, indeed, I have never seen her parallel in anything....spirit was inexorable to the flesh ; from the trembling hand, the unnerved limbs, the faded eyes, the same service was exacted as they had rendered in health."...
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The Life of Charlotte Brontė, Volume 2

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Novelists, English - 1857 - 306 pages
...suffering, I looked o» her with an anguish of wonder and love. I have seen nothing like it ; but, indeed, I have never seen her parallel in anything....unnerved limbs, the fading eyes, the same service wag exacted as they had rendered in health. To stand by and witness this, and not dare to remonstrate,...
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The Life of Charlotte Brontė, Volume 1

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1857 - 640 pages
...met suffering, I looked on her with an anguish of wonder and love. I have seen nothing like it; but, indeed, I have never seen her parallel in anything....the flesh; from the trembling hands, the unnerved limhs, the fading eyes, the same service was exacted as they had rendered in health. To stand by and...
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The National Review, Volume 5

1857 - 624 pages
...frame to continue independent of all assistance from others. " The awful point," says Charlotte, " was, that while full of ruth for others, on herself...spirit was inexorable to the flesh ; from the trembling hand, the unnerved limbs, the faded eyes, the same service was exacted as they had rendered in health....
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National Review, Volume 5

Great Britain - 1857 - 510 pages
...frame to continue independent of all assistance from others. " The awful point," says Charlotte, " was, that while full of ruth for others, on herself...spirit was inexorable to the flesh; from the trembling hand, the unnerved limbs, the faded eyes, the same service was exacted as they had rendered in health....
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The North American Review, Volume 85

North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1857 - 608 pages
...unsurpassed in tragic pathos ; we read almost with horror of her struggle against her inevitable doom. " Stronger than a man, simpler than a child, her nature...stood alone. The awful point was, that, while full of truth for others, on herself she had no pity ; the spirit was inexorable to the flesh ; from the trembling...
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The Presbyterian Quarterly Review, Volume 6

Benjamin John Wallace, Albert Barnes - Presbyterian Church - 1858 - 720 pages
...suffering, I looked on her with an anguish of wonder and love. I have seen nui. mi ' like it; but, indeed, I have never seen her parallel in anything....the same service was exacted as they had rendered in hcalth. To stand by and witness this, and not dare to remonstrate, was a pain no words can render."...
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The Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology, Volume 11

1858 - 754 pages
...wound with a red-hot iron, actually occurred to Emily. In her illness her sister thus writes of her: "Stronger than a man, simpler than a child, her nature...spirit was inexorable to the flesh ; from the trembling hand, the unnerved limbs, the fading eyes, the same service was exacted as they had rendered in health....
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