I was only going to say that heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth ; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing... Through Violet Eyes: A Novelby Stephen Woodworth - 2004 - 368 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| Printing - 1837 - 738 pages
...were in heaven, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable. [. ..] I dreamt once that I was there. [. . .] Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my...of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy. [. ..] I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven' (72-73). Tegen de achtergrond... | |
| American literature - 1857 - 602 pages
...weeping to come back to earth, and wakens sobbing for joy because " the angry angels have cast her out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights;" the perverse, fervent, untamed coquette, alternating between love and pride, hell and heaven, our admiration... | |
| Emily Brontė - England - 1848 - 308 pages
...miserable." " But it is not for that. I dreamed, once, that I was there." " 1 tell you I won't hearken to your dreams, Miss Catherine ! I'll go to bed,"...Wuthering Heights ; where I woke sobbing for joy. That will do to explain my secret, as well as the other. I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton... | |
| Emily Brontė - England - 1848 - 308 pages
...I'll go to bed," I interrupted again. " This is nothing," cried she; "I was only going to say t!:nt heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my...of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy. That will do to explain my secret, as well as the other. I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton... | |
| Emily Bronte - 1858 - 300 pages
...to go there," I answered. " All sinners would be miserable in heaven." " I tell you I won't hearken to your dreams, Miss Catherine ! I'll go to bed,"...Wuthering Heights ; where I woke sobbing for joy. That will do to explain my secret, as well as the other. I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton... | |
| Emily Brontė - 1870 - 488 pages
...dreamt once that I was there." " I tell you I won't hearken to your dreams, Miss Catherine 1 I '11 go to bed," I interrupted again. She laughed, and...of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy. That will do to explain my secret, as well as the other. I 've no more business to marry Edgar Linton... | |
| Charlotte Brontė - 1873 - 534 pages
...in heaven." " But it is not for that. I dreamt once that I was there." " I tell you I won't hearken to your dreams, Miss Catherine ! Ill go to bed," I...Wuthering Heights ; where I woke sobbing for joy. That will do to explain my secret, as well as the other. I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton... | |
| William Wirt Kinsley - Biology - 1881 - 392 pages
...horizon-line to shut them in. This phenomenal love found expression in Catherine Earnshaw's dream : " I was only going to say that heaven did not seem to...the top of Wuthering Heights, where I woke sobbing with joy." Swinburne says that " this love exhales, as a fresh wild odor from a bleak shrevvd soil,... | |
| Peter Bayne - English poetry - 1881 - 426 pages
...If I were in heaven, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable I dreamt once that I was there. . . . . Heaven did not seem to be my home ; and I broke my...Wuthering Heights, where I woke sobbing for joy." The reader will do well to remember that Emily Bronte could not live away from the moors, could not... | |
| Agnes Mary F. Duclaux - 1883 - 254 pages
...chair. " ' This is nothing,' cried she ; ' I was only going to say that heaven did not seem to be any home ; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back...of Wuthering Heights, where I woke sobbing for joy. That will do to explain my secret as well as the other. I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton... | |
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