 | Charlotte Brontë - 1846 - 218 pages
...inward essence feels : Its wings are almost free—its home, its harbour found, Measuring the gulph, it stoops, and dares the final bound. Oh, dreadful...robed in fires of hell, or bright with heavenly shine, If it but herald death, the vision is divine !" She ceased to speak, and we, unanswering, turned to... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1846 - 182 pages
...found, Measuring the gulph, it stoops, and dares the final bound. Oh, dreadful is the check — intense the agony — When the ear begins to hear, and the...robed in fires of hell, or bright with heavenly shine, If it but herald death, the vision is divine !" She ceased to speak, and we, unanswering, turned to... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1870 - 454 pages
...Measuring the gulph, it stoops and dares the final bound. " Oh ! dreadful is the check — intense the agony — When the ear begins to hear, and the...in fires of hell, or bright -with heavenly shine, If it but herald death, the vision is divine ! " She ceased to speak, and we, unanswering, turned to... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1873 - 540 pages
...Measuring the gulph, it stoops and dares the final bound. " Oh ! dreadful is the check — intense the agony — When the ear begins to hear, and the...robed in fires of hell, or bright with heavenly shine, If it but herald death, the vision is divine !" She ceased to speak, and we, unanswering, turned to... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1876 - 544 pages
...Measuring the gulph, it stoops and dares the final bound. " Oh ! dreadful is the check — intense the agony — • When the ear begins to hear, and the eye begins to see ; When th a pulse begins to throb, the brain to think again ; The soul to feel the flesh, and the flesh to... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 650 pages
...no peace or happiness to the fiery soul that bore it. For her, in her own wonderful words, ' intense the agony — When the ear begins to hear, and the...feel the flesh, and the flesh to feel the chain.' Under such a strain of being, no wonder that the pale and slender physical frame declined, and that... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 648 pages
...no peace or happiness to the fiery soul that bore it. For her, in her own wonderful words, 'intense the agony — When the ear begins to hear, and the...feel the flesh, and the flesh to feel the chain.' Under such a strain of being, no wonder that the pale and slender physical frame declined, and that... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1881 - 654 pages
...no peace or happiness to the fiery soul that bore it. For her, in her own wonderful words, 'intense the agony — When the ear begins to hear, and the...feel the flesh, and the flesh to feel the chain.' Under such a strain of being, no wonder that the pale and slender physical frame declined, and that... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1883 - 686 pages
...no peace or happiness to the fiery soul that bore it. For her, in her own wonderful words, ' intense the agony — When the ear begins to hear, and the...feel the flesh, and the flesh to feel the chain.' • Under such a strain of being, no wonder that the pale and slender physical frame declined, and... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1883 - 734 pages
...no peace or happiness to the fiery 'soul that bore it. For her, in her own wonderful words, 'intense the agony— When the ear begins to hear, and the...feel the flesh, and the flesh to feel the chain.' Under such a strain of being, no wonder that the pale and slender physical frame declined, and that... | |
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Oh, dreadful is the check — intense the agony — When the ear begins to hear, and the eye begins to see; When the pulse begins to throb, the brain to think again, The soul to feel the flesh, and the flesh to feel the chain. 
