I've held every tree sacred on the demesne, as I told you, Harold. I trusted to your getting the estate some time, and releasing it ; and I determined to keep it worth releasing. A park without fine timber is no better than a beauty without teeth and... The Works of George Eliot: Felix Holt - Page 28by George Eliot - 1878Full view - About this book
| George Eliot - 1893 - 364 pages
...without teeth and hair." " Bravo, mother ! " said Harold, putting his hand on her shoulder. " Ah, you 've had to worry yourself about things that don't properly belong to a woman, — my father being weakly. We 'll set all that right. You shall have nothing to do now but to be grandmamma on satin cushions."... | |
| Charles D. Campbell - English language - 1905 - 156 pages
...grandmother. 0 Discretion ! thou'rt a jewel. Or our grand-mammas mistake. -Brit. Mag. IV, 495. (1763) NED. You shall have nothing to do now but to be grandmamma on satin cushions. —George Eliot, Felix Holt, I, 34. NED. . p) in combination with great: Describing Donna Julia, Byron... | |
| Charles D. Campbell - English language - 1905 - 156 pages
...grandmother. 0 Discretion ! thou'rt a jewel. Or our grand-mammas mistake. -Brit. Mag. IV, 495. (1763) NED. Yon shall have nothing to do now but to be grandmamma on satin cushions. —George Eliot, Felix Holt, I, 34. NED. [}) in combination with great: • Describing Donna Julia,... | |
| George Eliot - 1907 - 364 pages
...every tree sacred on the demesne, as I told you, Harold. I trusted to your getting the estate sometime, and releasing it; and I determined to keep it worth...properly belong to a woman — my father being weakly. We '11 set all that right. You shall have nothing to do now but to be grandmamma on satin cushions."... | |
| George Eliot - 1907 - 372 pages
...every tree sacred on the demesne, as I told you, Harold. I trusted to your getting the estate sometime, and releasing it; and I determined to keep it worth...properly belong to a woman — my father being weakly. We '11 set all that right. You shall have nothing to do now but to be grandmamma on satin cushions."... | |
| Barbara Hardy - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 258 pages
...— this is a moral struggle rather than an amorous one. Harold has dismissed his mother's energy — -'Ah, you've had to worry yourself about things that...We'll set all that right. You shall have nothing to do but to be grandmamma on satin cushions', and 'a woman ought to be a Tory, and graceful, and handsome,... | |
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