 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1859 - 672 pages
...they requite them by praise : they call them devoted and virtuous. " Is this enough ? Is it to live ? Is there not a terrible hollowness, mockery, want,...of your own to bestow it on ? I suspect there is." And later we are told that Caroline felt with pain that the life (we have seen what that was) which... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1849 - 316 pages
...then they requite them by praise : they call them devoted and virtuous. Is this enough? Is it to live? Is there not a terrible hollowness, mockery, want,...makes tyranny ; weak concession creates selfishness. The Romish religion especially teaches renunciation of self, submission to others, and nowhere are... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1849 - 422 pages
...call them devoted and virtuous. Is this enough? Is it to live? Is there not a terrible hollo wness, mockery, want, craving, in that existence which is...makes tyranny; weak concession creates selfishness. The Romish religion especially teaches renunciation of self, submission to others, and nowhere are... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1850 - 588 pages
...they requite them by praise : they call them devoted and virtuous. Is this enough ? Is it to live ? Is there not a terrible hollowness, mockery, want, craving, in that existence which is jlven away to others, for want of something of your own to bestow it on ? I suspect there is. Does... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1872 - 610 pages
...then they requite them by praise : they call them devoted and virtuous. Is this enough? Is it to live? Is there not a terrible hollowness, mockery, want,...makes tyranny ; weak concession creates selfishness. The Romish religion especially teaches renunciation of self, submission to others, and nowhere are... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1872 - 608 pages
...then they requite them by praise : they call them devoted and virtuous. Is this enough? Is it to live? Is there not a terrible hollowness, mockery, want, craving, in that existence which is given away to SHIRLEY. others, for want of something of your own to bestow it on ? I suspect there is. Does virtue... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë, Laura Carter Holloway - 1883 - 168 pages
...they requite them by praise ; they call them devoted and virtuous. Is this enough ? Is it to live ? Is there not a terrible hollowness, mockery, want,.... . . " Each human being has his share of rights. I suspect it would conduce to the happiness and welfare of all if each knew his allotment, and held... | |
 | 1886 - 548 pages
...they requite them by praise : they call them devoted and virtuous. Is this enough ? Is it to live? Is there not a terrible hollowness, mockery, want,...selfishness. Each human being has his share of rights. I suspect it would conduce to the happiness and welfare of all if each knew his allotment and held... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1893 - 560 pages
...they requite them by praise : they call them devoted and virtuous. Is this enough ? Is it to live ? Is there not a terrible hollowness, mockery, want,...selfishness. Each human being has his share of rights. I suspect it would conduce to the happiness and welfare of all if each knew his allotment and held... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1893 - 396 pages
...they requite them by praise : they call them devoted and virtuous. Is this enough ? Is it to live ? Is there not a terrible hollowness, mockery, want,...makes tyranny ; weak concession creates selfishness. The Romish religion especially teaches renunciation of self, submission to others, and nowhere are... | |
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Is there not a terrible hollowness, mockery, want, craving, in that existence which is given away to others, for want of something of your own to bestow it on? 
