 I remember her grave, earnest way of saying, "I trust God will take from me whatever power of invention or expression I may have, before He lets me become blind to the sense of what is fitting or unfitting to be said!  Fresh Leaves - Page 299by Fanny Fern - 1857 - 336 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1857 - 352 pages
...to whom reference had been made. I remember her grave, earnest way of saying, "I trust God will take from me whatever power of invention or expression...the sense of what is fitting or unfitting to be said ! " Again, she was invariably shocked and distressed when she heard of any disapproval of " Jane Eyre... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1857 - 640 pages
...to whom reference had been made. I remember her grave, earnest way of saying, "I trust God will take from me whatever power of invention or expression...sense of what is fitting or unfitting to be said!" Again, she was invariably shocked and distressed when she heard of any disapproval of "Jane Eyre" on... | |
 | Benjamin John Wallace, Albert Barnes - 1858 - 720 pages
...courage which overcomes it. She was once -con versing on this subject and said, " I trust God will take from me whatever power of invention or expression...the sense of what is fitting or unfitting to be said !" Mrs. Gaskell makes the following feeling remarks on the subject: I do not deny for myself the existence... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1859 - 316 pages
...to whom reference had been made. I remember her grave, earnest way of saying, "I trust God will take from me whatever power of invention or expression I may have, before He lets EEPBOACH OF COAUSIMBSS IN HEH WOBKS. 257 me become blind to the sense of what is fitting or unfitting... | |
 | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1862 - 612 pages
...whom reference had been made. I remember her grave, earnest way of saying, " I trust God will take from me whatever power of invention or expression...sense of what is fitting or unfitting to be said!" Again, she was invariably shocked and distressed when she heard of any disapproval of " Jane Eyre "... | |
 | 1873 - 808 pages
...and brave as a lion, was yet pure and tender as that of a child. She said, " I trust God will take from me whatever power of invention or expression...sense of what is fitting or unfitting to be said." And it is on record that she was deeply grieved and long distressed by the remark made to her on one... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1873 - 492 pages
...whom reference had been made. I remember her grave, earnest way of saying, " I trust God will take from me whatever power of invention or expression...the sense of what is fitting or unfitting to be said ! " Again she was invariably shocked and distressed when she heard of any disapproval of Jane Eyre... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1873 - 840 pages
...and brave as a lion, was yet pure and tender as that of a child. She said, " I trust God will take from me whatever power of invention or expression...sense of what is fitting or unfitting to be said." And it is on record that she was deeply grieved and long distressed by the remark made to her on one... | |
 | 1873 - 842 pages
...and brave as a lion, was yet pure ana tender as that of a child. She said, " 1 trust God will take from me whatever power of invention or expression...sense of what is fitting or unfitting to be said." And it is on record that she was deeply grieved and long distressed by the remark made to her on one... | |
 | 1873 - 746 pages
...and brave as a lion, was yet pure and tender as that of a child. She said, " I trust God will take from me whatever power of invention or expression...sense of what is fitting or unfitting to be said." And it is on record that she was deeply grieved and long distressed by the remark made to her on one... | |
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