Ocupation: Novelist
Life: July 30, 1818 - December 19, 1848
Birthday: July 30
Death: December 19
I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
source: Wuthering Heights ch. 34 (1847)
topic: Wind, Sky, Breathing, Benign, Heathcliff, Sleepers, Fluttering