Patrick Bronte
Who is Patrick Bronte
Patrick Brontë (, commonly ; born Patrick Brunty; 17 March 1777 – 7 June 1861) was an Irish Anglican priest and author who spent most of his adult life in England. He was the father of the writers Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë, and of Branwell Brontë, his only son. Patrick outlived his wife, the former Maria Branwell, by forty years, by which time all of their six children had died as well.
Origins
Brontë was born Patrick Brunty at Drumballyroney, near Rathfriland, County Down (now in Northern Ireland), the eldest of the ten children of "farmhand, fence-fixer and road-builder" Hugh Brunty, an Anglican, and Elinor Alice (née McClory) an Irish Catholic. The family was "large and very poor", owning four books (including two copies of the Bible) and subsisti...
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Patrick Bronte Poems
- The Rainbow.
The shower is past, and the sky
O'erhead is both mild and serene,
Save where a few drops from on high,
Like gems, twinkle over the green:
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- Epistle To A Young Clergyman.
"Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." 2 TIMOTHY ii. 15.
My youthful brother, oft I long
To write to you in prose or song;
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- The Spider And The Fly.
The sun shines bright, the morning's fair,
The gossamers float on the air,
The dew-gems twinkle in the glare,
The spider's loom
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- To The Rev. J. Gilpin, On His Improved Edition Of The "pilgrim's Progress."
When, Reverend Sir, your good design,
To clothe our Pilgrim gravely fine,
And give him gentler mien and gait,
First reached my ear, his doubtful fate
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- Verses Sent To A Lady On Her Birthday.
The joyous day illumes the sky
That bids each care and sorrow fly
To shades of endless night:
E'en frozen age, thawed in the fires
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Comments about Patrick Bronte
- Wutheringhikes: i'd previously expressed my doubts of the story of patrick bronte causing the holes in haworth church tower with his flintlock pistol. there are several reasons for this namely the distance between the parsonage & church, power of the gun and the disrespect it might have shown.
- Haworthbrontes: has the mystery of patrick brontë, his flintlock pistol and holes in st michaels church tower been solved ?
- Nick_holland_: the first school the eldest bronte siblings maria & elizabeth attended was crofton hall, wakefield. it was an exclusive, expensive school that patrick couldn't afford so they were soon sent to cowan bridge, the lowood of jane eyre, with tragic results.
- Branwellbronte: my father, patrick brontë, was born today in 1777. despite what many believe, he was a kind and attentive father.
- Hburpday: march 17
today is the anniversary of the birth of
patrick bronte (1777)
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