5/21/2023 0 Comments 1849 novel charlotte bronte![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() How much finer the feeling-how much truer the feeling-how much more delicate the mind here revealed! I was struck by the contrast offered in her manner of treating the topic to that of Miss Rigby in the Quarterly. Good and intelligent women write well on such subjects. I have read with pleasure a little book on English Social Life by the wife of Archbishop Whately. Hare’s Guesses At Truth, a book containing things that in depth and far-sought wisdom sometimes recall the Thoughts of Pascal, only it is as the light of the sun recalls that of the moon. Reading has, of late, been my great solace and recreation. With the heavy suspicion on my mind that all may not be right, I yet feel forced to put up with the inevitable wrong. I can work indefatigably at the correction of a work before it leaves my hands, but when once I have looked on it as completed and submitted to the inspection of others, it becomes next to impossible to alter or amend. I ask this though I well know it cannot now be altered. Taylor censured it he considers as defective all that portion which relates to Shirley’s nervousness-the bite of the dog, etc. My Dear Sir,-I want to know your opinion of the subject of this proof-sheet. ![]()
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