 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1857 - 512 pages
...describe any thing which had not fallen within her own experience ; she had thought intently on it for many and many a night before falling to sleep, wondering...experience, and then could describe it, word for word, as it had happened. I cannot account for this psychologically ; I only am sure that it was so, because she... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1857 - 352 pages
...describe anything which had not fallen within her own experience ; she had thought intently on it for many and many a night before falling to sleep, —...experience, and then could describe it, word for word, as it had happened. I cannot account for this psychologically ; I only am sure that it was so, because she... | |
 | 1857 - 510 pages
...describe any thing which had not fallen within her own experience; she had thought intently on it for many and many a night before falling to sleep, wondering...up in the morning with all clear before her, as if sbe had in reality gone through the experience, and then could describe it, word for word, as it had... | |
 | 1858 - 592 pages
...describe anything which had not fallen within her own experience. She had thought intensely on it for many and many a night before falling to sleep — wondering what it was like, or what it would be — till at length, sometimes after the progress of her story had been arrested at... | |
 | 1858 - 460 pages
...describe anything which had not fallen within. her own experience. She had thought intensely on it for many and many a night before falling to sleep — wondering what it was like, or what it would be — till at length, sometimes after the progress of her story had been arrested at... | |
 | William Caldwell Roscoe - 1860 - 576 pages
...thing which had not fallen within her own experience; she had thought intently on it for many and mariy a night before falling to sleep, wondering what it...experience, and then could describe it, word for word, as it had happened. I cannot account for this psychologically ; I only am sure that it was so, because she... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1862 - 612 pages
...many and many a night before falling to sleep,—wondering what it was like or how it would be,—till at length, sometimes after the progress of her story...experience, and then could describe it, word for word, as it had happened. I cannot account for this psychologically; I only am sure that it was so, because she... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1873 - 492 pages
...describe anything which had not fallen within her own experience ; she had thought intently on it for many and many a night before falling to sleep —...experience, and then could describe it, word for word, as it had happened. I cannot account for this psychologically ; I only am sure that it was so, because she... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1883 - 816 pages
...being at such times more present to her mind than her actual life itself. "—(Life, p. 234.) 6. " Whenever she had to describe anything which had not...experience, and then could describe it word for word as it had happened." — (Life, p. 425.) So of the late Mr. Appold — the inventor of the centrifugal pump,... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1884 - 362 pages
...describe anything which had not fallen within her own experience ; she had thought intently on it for many and many a night before falling to sleep —...experience, and then could describe it word for word, as it had happened. Charlotte was more than commonly tender in her treatment of all dumb creatures, and they,... | |
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... till at length, sometimes after the progress of her story had been arrested at this one point for weeks, she wakened up in the morning with all clear before her, as if she had in reality gone through the experience, and then could describe it, word... 
