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EBEmily Brontë

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Emily Brontë

Life dates: 1818 AD — 1848 AD

Emily Brontë’s novel gives memorable words to different generations and narrators. Read Catherine’s declaration about Heathcliff beside Nelly’s response to the younger Cathy, preserving the distinction between feeling and conduct.

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The catalogue identifies Emily Brontë with lifetime years 1818–1848 and credits David Price for the electronic text. Wuthering Heights places stories inside other people’s recollections, so a sentence’s speaker matters. This checked English edition supplies local context for two existing extracts. Its catalogue HTML ISBN identifies the digital edition; neither the print publisher nor a composition date for the archive passages is established here.

In Chapter IX, Catherine Earnshaw tells Nelly that she and Heathcliff share a nature. Heathcliff leaves after overhearing an earlier part of the conversation, before hearing this declaration. Chapter XXII concerns the younger Catherine and her ill father: Nelly asks that promises made in fear be supported by deeds. The selected extracts match this text under limited normalization. They belong to different speakers and generations, rather than a single statement of the author’s personal advice.

Reading this voice

Read Chapter IX through Heathcliff’s departure, then Chapter XXII through Nelly’s reply. Keep Catherine Earnshaw distinct from her daughter. Notice how an overheard fragment and a fearful promise change what words can accomplish in their scenes.

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1833 AD
When weary with the long day’s care,And earthly change from pain to pain,And lost, and ready to despair,Thy kind voice calls me back againO my true friend, I am not loneWhile thou canst speak with such a tone!So hopeless is the world without,The world within I doubly prize;Thy world where guile and hate and doubtAnd cold suspicion never rise;Where thou and I and LibertyHave undisputed sovereignty.What matters it that all aroundDanger and grief and darkness lie,If but within our bosom’s boundWe hold a bright unsullied sky,Warm with ten thousand mingled raysOf suns that know no winter days?Reason indeed may oft complainFor Nature’s sad reality,And tell the suffering heart how vainIts cherished dreams must always be;And Truth may rudely trample downThe flowers of Fancy newly blown.But thou art ever there to bringThe hovering visions back and breatheNew glories o’er the blighted springAnd call a lovelier life from death,And whisper with a voice divineOf real worlds as bright as thine.I trust not to thy phantom bliss,Yet still in evening’s quiet hourWith never-failing thankfulness Iwelcome thee, benignant power,Sure solacer of human caresAnd brighter hope when hope despairs.
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14c. 1833 AD
He leant his two elbows on his knees, and his chin on his hands and remained rapt in dumb meditation. On my inquiring the subject of his thoughts, he answered gravely 'I'm trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back. I don't care how long I wait, if I can only do it at last. I hope he will not die before I do!''For shame, Heathcliff!' said I. 'It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.''No, God won’t have the satisfaction that I shall,' he returned. 'I only wish I knew the best way! Let me alone, and I'll plan it out: while I'm thinking of that I don't feel pain.
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