 A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills : to know that high initiation, she must often tread where it is hard to...  Felix Holt, the Radical - Page 448by George Eliot - 1890 - 440 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Eliot, Alexander Main - Aphorisms and apothegms in literature - 1873 - 444 pages
...wrestle with the old sorrows, but more decorously. A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership...things easy : it makes us choose what is difficult. At that time, when faith in the efficacy of political change was at fever-heat in ardent Reformers,... | |
 | George Eliot - 1875 - 460 pages
...wrestle with the old sorrows, but more decorously. A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership...things easy : it makes us choose what is difficult. At that time, when faith in the efficacy of political change was at fever-heat in ardent Reformers,... | |
 | George Eliot - 1878 - 378 pages
...such as we must pay for all that is greatly good. A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership...|must often tread where it is hard to tread, and feel lithe chill air, and watch through darkness. It is not true that love makes all things easy : it makes... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Women - 1882 - 448 pages
...duty, to the French woman a propriety. — Tainc. A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership...and feel the chill air, and watch through darkness. — George Eliot. 830 831 Married in haste to repent at leisure. — Congrne. 832 Women are as lavish... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - Novelists, English - 1883 - 454 pages
...exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had when and how she will : to know that high initiation, she must often tread...things easy ; it makes us choose what is difficult. Throughout her novels she exalts marriage, never casts any slur upon it, treats it as one of the most... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - Biography & Autobiography - 1883 - 470 pages
...coldness of the world which her marriage brought her. A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had when and how she will : to know that high initiation, she must often tread where it is hard to tread,... | |
 | George Eliot - 1885 - 404 pages
...miseries is to go and look at their pleasures. A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership...things easy : it makes us choose what is difficult. The man who has failed in the use of some indirectness, is helped very little by the fact that his... | |
 | Martha Louise Rayne - American literature - 1885 - 578 pages
...persons, a cunning one in none. — Ninon de Lenclos. A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership...she must often tread where it is hard to tread, and to feel the chill air, and watch through darkness. — George Eliot. A woman's whole life is a history... | |
 | Susan Coolidge - Calendars - 1890 - 382 pages
...motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the world's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she...things easy ; it makes us choose what is difficult. GEORGE ELIOT. HE that keepeth thy soul, doth not He know it? — PROV. xxiv. 12. GOD speaks Himself... | |
 | Oscar Browning - English literature - 1890 - 200 pages
...and did not fail to inculcate in private life. " A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership...where it is hard to tread and feel the chill air, and walk through darkness. It is not true that love makes all things easy : it makes us choose what is... | |
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