Felix Holt, the Radical ...Estes and Lauriat, 1893 |
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... mothers gave their strength to the loom , pious Dissenting women , perhaps , who took life patiently , and thought that salvation depended chiefly on predestination , and not at all on cleanliness . The gables of Dissenting chapels now ...
... mothers gave their strength to the loom , pious Dissenting women , perhaps , who took life patiently , and thought that salvation depended chiefly on predestination , and not at all on cleanliness . The gables of Dissenting chapels now ...
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... the eldest son had been just such another as his father , only worse , a wild sort of half - natural , who got into bad company . They - - said his mother hated him , and wished him dead 12 FELIX HOLT , THE RADICAL .
... the eldest son had been just such another as his father , only worse , a wild sort of half - natural , who got into bad company . They - - said his mother hated him , and wished him dead 12 FELIX HOLT , THE RADICAL .
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George Eliot. said his mother hated him , and wished him dead ; for she'd got another son , quite of a different cut , who had gone to foreign parts when he was a youngster , and she wanted her favourite to be heir . But heir or no heir ...
George Eliot. said his mother hated him , and wished him dead ; for she'd got another son , quite of a different cut , who had gone to foreign parts when he was a youngster , and she wanted her favourite to be heir . But heir or no heir ...
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... mother , do not grieve , " he said ; " I will be great , and build our fortunes high , And you shall wear the longest train at court , And look so queenly , all the lords shall say , ' She is a royal changeling : there's some crown ...
... mother , do not grieve , " he said ; " I will be great , and build our fortunes high , And you shall wear the longest train at court , And look so queenly , all the lords shall say , ' She is a royal changeling : there's some crown ...
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... Mother ! and felt a light kiss on each cheek ; but stronger than all that sensation was the consciousness which no previous thought could prepare her for , that this son who had come back to her was a stranger . Three minutes before ...
... Mother ! and felt a light kiss on each cheek ; but stronger than all that sensation was the consciousness which no previous thought could prepare her for , that this son who had come back to her was a stranger . Three minutes before ...
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Page 82 - For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool : for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me.
Page 62 - Holt as a basic statement of what this book is about: . . . there is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life, from the time when the primeval milkmaid had to wander with the wanderings of her clan, because the cow she milked was one of a herd which had made the pasture bare.
Page 50 - Women, very properly, don't change their views, but keep to the notions in which they have been brought up. It does n't signify what they think, — they are not called upon to judge or to act. You must really leave me to take my own course in these matters, which properly belong to men. Beyond that I will gratify any wish you choose to mention. You shall have a new carriage and a pair of bays all to yourself; you shall have the house done up in first-rate style, and I am not > thinking of marrying,...
Page 79 - ll take no employment that obliges me to prop up my chin with a high cravat, and wear straps, and pass the livelong day with a set of fellows who spend their spare money on shirtpins.
Page 88 - A misanthropic debauchee," said Felix, lifting a chair with one hand, and holding the book open in the other, "whose notion of a hero was that he should disorder his stomach and despise mankind. His corsairs and renegades, his Alps and Manfreds, are the most paltry puppets that were ever pulled by the strings of lust and pride.
Page 78 - This world is not a very fine place for a good many of the people in it. But I've made up my mind it shan't be the worse for me, if I can help it. They may tell me I can't alter the world — that there must be a certain number of sneaks and robbers in it, and if I don't lie and filch somebody else will. Well, then, somebody else shall, for I won't. That's the upshot of my conversion, Mr Lyon, if you want to know it.
Page 63 - Even in the conservatory existence where the fair Camellia is sighed for by the noble young Pineapple, neither of them needing to care about the frost or rain outside, there is a nether apparatus of hotwater pipes liable to cool down on a strike of the gardeners or a scarcity of coal. And the lives we are about to look back upon do not belong to those conservatory species; they are rooted in the common earth, having to endure all the ordinary chances of past and present weather.
Page 80 - That's why I set myself to learn the watch-making trade. My father was a weaver first of all. It would have been better for him if he had remained a weaver. I came home through Lancashire and saw an uncle of mine who is a weaver still. I mean to stick to the class I belong to — people who don't follow the fashions.
Page 50 - She, poor woman, knew quite well that she had been unwise, and that she had been making herself disagreeable to Harold to no purpose. But half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless; nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter.
Page 233 - Comprehensive talkers are apt to be tiresome when we are not athirst for information, but, to be quite fair, we must admit that superior reticence is a good deal due to the lack of matter. Speech is often barren ; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest.