| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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."... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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."... | |
| 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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