 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 - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | George Eliot - 1885 - 404 pages
...and of love ; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness. 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... | |
 | American literature - 1885 - 184 pages
...Hindoo saying. IN the meanest hut is a romance, if you knew the hearts there I Varnhagen von Ense. HALF the sorrows of women would be averted, if they...— nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter. Greorge Eliot. THE word that escapes thee is thy master ; that which thou retainest, thy slave. Arabian.... | |
 | John Thomas Dale - Conduct of life - 1887 - 650 pages
...Eliot has said that " Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech which they know to be useless — nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter." An old lady was known among her neighbors as " Grindstone," because, as they explained, " All the tempers... | |
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