 | Charlotte Brontë - 1848 - 316 pages
...Christmas frost had come at midsummer ; a white December storm had whirled over June ; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses ; on...the tropics, now spread, waste, wild, and white as pine-forests in wintry Norway. My hopes were all dead — struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one... | |
 | English language - 1859 - 684 pages
...Christmas frost had come at midsummer ; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses ; on...the tropics, now spread, waste, wild, and white as pineforests in wintry Norway. My hopes were all dead — struck with a subtile doom, such as, in one... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1864 - 506 pages
...; a white December storm had » whirled over June ; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed ihe blowing roses ; on hay-field and corn-field lay a...the tropics, now spread, waste, wild, and white as pine-forests in wintry Norway. My hopes were all dead — struck with a subtile doom, such as, in one... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1872 - 520 pages
...Christmas frost had come at midsummer ; a white December storm had whirled over June ; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses ; on...the tropics, now spread, waste, wild, and white as pine-forests in wintry Norway. My hopes were all dead — struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one... | |
 | Peter Bayne - English poetry - 1881 - 428 pages
...Christmas frost had come at Midsummer ; a white December storm had whirled over June ; * ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses ; on...the tropics, now spread waste, wild, and white as pine-forests in wintry Norway. My hopes were all dead, — struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one... | |
 | Theology - 1881 - 524 pages
...Christmas frost had come at midsummer ; a white December storm had whirled over June, ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses ; on...the tropics, now spread waste, wild, and white as pine-forests in wintry Norway." Y mae y cyferbyniad rhwng hapusrwydd a mwyniant cariad, a'r ymdeimlad... | |
 | Peter Bayne - English poetry - 1881 - 426 pages
...Midsummer ; a white December storm had whirled over June ; * ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crashed the blowing roses ; on hayfield and cornfield lay...the tropics, now spread waste, wild, and white as pine-forests in wintry Norway. My hopes were all dead, — struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë, Laura Carter Holloway - 1883 - 168 pages
...Christmas frost had come at midsummer ; a white December storm had whirled over June ; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses ; on...as pine forests in wintry Norway. My hopes were all dead — struck with a subtile doom, such as in one night fell on all the first-born in the land of... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1885 - 410 pages
...December storm had whirled over June ; loe glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses ; /m hayfield and cornfield lay a frozen shroud ; lanes...as pine forests in wintry Norway. My hopes were all dead: — struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first born in the land... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1890 - 494 pages
...Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses; on...as pine forests in wintry Norway. My hopes were all dead — struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night fell on all the first-born in the land of... | |
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Jane Eyre, who had been an ardent, expectant woman - almost a bride, was a cold, solitary girl again: her life was pale; her prospects were desolate. A Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the... 
