All 4 Uses of
fortitude
in
Bleak House
- They went on in their own wild way for a little while—I never stopped them; I enjoyed it too much myself— and then we gradually fell to considering how young they were, and how there must be a lapse of several years before this early love could come to anything, and how it could come to happiness only if it were real and lasting and inspired them with a steady resolution to do their duty to each other, with constancy, fortitude, and perseverance, each always for the other's sake.†
Chpt 13-15
- So patient she was, so uncomplaining, and inspired by such a gentle fortitude that very often as I sat by Charley holding her head in my arms—repose would come to her, so, when it would come to her in no other attitude—I silently prayed to our Father in heaven that I might not forget the lesson which this little sister taught me.†
Chpt 31-33
- It inspired me with new fortitude and new calmness to find that it was I who was under the necessity of reassuring him.†
Chpt 43-45 *
- His love, in all its constancy and generosity, had come so suddenly upon me that he had not left me a minute when my fortitude gave way again and the street was blotted out by my rushing tears.†
Chpt 61-63
Definition:
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(fortitude) strength of mind that enables one to endure adversity with courage