 Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy : its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.  Jane Eyre - Page 48by Charlotte Brontë - 1890Full view - About this book
 | Australia - 1858 - 668 pages
...deglutition. — Ckarlotte Bronte. THE SWEETS OF BEVENOE. " Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time. As aromatic wine, it seemed on swallowing, warm and racy ; its after-flavor, metalic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned." — Ibid. LIFI A TBCST. Life... | |
 | English language - 1859 - 684 pages
...and the dreariness of my hated and hating position. Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time ; as aromatic wine it seemed on swallowing, warm...I now have gone and asked Mrs. Reed's pardon ; but 4 knew, partly from experience and partly from Instinct, that was the way to make her repulse me with... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1872 - 520 pages
...the dreariness of my hatred and hating position. Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy : its afterflavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned. Willingly would... | |
 | Francis Jacox - Bible - 1876 - 628 pages
...vengeance, " as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy," she says ; " its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned." The confession reads like a paraphrase of Dryden's lines, indicating how, were sounder principles received... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - Authors, English - 1893 - 372 pages
...and the dreariness of my hated and hating position. Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy : its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned. Willingly would... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1905 - 356 pages
...and the dreariness of my hated and hating position. Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time ; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy : its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned. Willingly would... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1905 - 450 pages
...and the dreariness of my hated and hating position. Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time. As aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy ; its after flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned. Willingly would... | |
 | John Malham-Dembleby - 1911 - 194 pages
...vengeance I had tasted. ... As aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy; its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned. ... I would fain exercise some better faculty than that of fierce speaking — fain find nourishment... | |
 | Les and Leslie Parrott - Religion - 2009 - 196 pages
...Bronte in jane Eyre, "as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned." Our advice is to learn from Bronte's insight. Don't get even. Get over it. You'll be the better and... | |
 | Marianne Thormählen - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 301 pages
...and the dreariness of my hated and hating position. Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned. Willingly would... | |
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