Emily Bronte
Emily Bronte
Emily Jane Brontë was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. Emily was the third eldest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell. She wrote under the pen name Ellis Bell...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 July 1818
CityWest Yorkshire, England
among bank bees blue bright evening heath high hot humming july lying manner middle morning shining singing sky spending steadily sun till
He said the pleasantest manner of spending a hot July day was lying from morning till evening on a bank of heath in the middle of the moors, with the bees humming dreamily about among the bloom, and the larks singing high up overhead, and the blue sky and bright sun shining steadily and cloudlessly.
afternoon half heath instead mind mud spend study wuthering yesterday
Yesterday afternoon set in misty and cold. I had half a mind to spend it by my study fire, instead of wading through heath and mud to Wuthering Heights.
country heathers gone
I have fled my country and gone to the heather.
gothic heathcliff destruction
I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.
girl heathers wish
I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free... Why am I so changed? I'm sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills.
world heathcliff lost
The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.
life soul heathcliff
I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!
soul mind heathcliff
That is how I'm loved! Well, never mind. That is not my Heathcliff. I shall love mine yet; and take him with me: he's in my soul.
long may heathcliff
May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then.
would-be slave heathcliff
If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave.
altered changed colour dreams dreamt english-novelist gone life stayed wine
I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.
agony begins brain check dreadful ear eye flesh intense pulse soul
Oh! dreadful is the check - intense the agony - / When the ear begins to hear, and the eye begins to see; / When the pulse begins to throb, the brain to think again; / The soul to feel the flesh, and the flesh to feel the chain.
believe comfort cry eye foot good happened meant might oblige quiet seldom slip sweetest
A wild, wick slip she was - but, she had the bonniest eye and sweetest smile, and lightest foot in the parish: and, after all, I believe she meant no harm; for when once she made you cry in good earnest, it seldom happened that she would not keep you company, and oblige you to be quiet that you might comfort her.
above cold deep dreary earth snow
Cold in the earth - and the deep snow piled above thee, / Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave!