 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...  Felix Holt, the Radical ... - Page 50by George Eliot - 1893Full view - About this book
 | George Eliot - 1867 - 446 pages
...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. But let us understand that...walking a moment longer, and then said to Jermyn, "You smoker' " No, I always defer to the ladies. Mrs Jermyn is peculiarly sensitive in such matters, and... | |
 | George Eliot - 1869 - 568 pages
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 | George Eliot - 1871 - 568 pages
...the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless ; nav, the speech they have resolved not to utter. Harold..." No, I always defer to the ladies. Mrs. Jermyn is particularly sensitive in such matters, and doesn't like tobacco." • Harold, who, underneath all... | |
 | Quotations - 1873 - 530 pages
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 | George Eliot, Alexander Main - Aphorisms and apothegms in literature - 1873 - 444 pages
...dingy house of the minister in Malthouse Yard, there was a light-footed, sweet-voiced Queen Esther. Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they...useless— nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter. In this way poor women, whose power lies solely in their influence, make themselves like music out... | |
 | George Eliot - 1875 - 460 pages
...dingy house of the minister in Malthouse Yard, there was a light-footed, sweet-voiced Queen Esther. Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they...— nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter, [ In this way poor women, whose power lies solely in their influence, make themselves like music out... | |
 | Methodism - 1881 - 790 pages
...needle-case always at hand.' ' A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams ; a shadow annihilates them.' ' Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they...nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter.' A woman's love is always freezing with fear. She wants everything ; she is secure of nothing.' ' When... | |
 | American literature - 1881 - 408 pages
...— the* looke weel enoof, but the' woon t wear, the woon't wear. — Mr. Giljiis Love Story. 70. " Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they...nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter." — FeHjc Holt. 7!.. " She could not reconcile the anxieties of a spiritual life, involving eternal... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Women - 1882 - 448 pages
...vanquishes the grave, and transfigures death itself into life. — Gail Hamilton. 2050 2052 Half the sorrow of women would be averted if they could repress the...— nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter. — George Eliot. Love gives no account of itself ; it acknowledges no higher court ; it obeys the... | |
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