 | George Eliot - Elections - 1866 - 538 pages
...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..."That is true, my dear," said Mr. Lyon, laying down D2 c the book on the small table behind him. He saw that his daughter was angry. "Ho, ho!" thought... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1866 - 352 pages
...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...would certainly be made worse by being greased with bread-and-butter." " That is true, my dear," said Mr Lyon, laying down the book on the small table... | |
 | George Eliot - Domestic fiction - 1866 - 200 pages
...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...objectionable Mr. Holt may find its pages, they would -ertainly be made worse by being greased with bread-and-butter." " That is true, my dear," said Mr.... | |
 | George Eliot - 1867 - 446 pages
...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...would certainly be made worse by being greased with bread-and-butter." "That is true, my dear," said -Mr Lyon, laying down the book on the small table... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1868 - 548 pages
...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...would certainly be made worse by being greased with bread-and-butter." "That is true, my dear," said Mr Lyon, laying down the book on the small table behind... | |
 | George Eliot - 1878 - 368 pages
...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...would certainly be made worse by being greased with bread-andbutter." " That is true, my dear," said Mr Lyon, laying down the book on the small table behind... | |
 | John Milner Fothergill - Will - 1885 - 232 pages
...Strathmore are infinitely more mischievous, as are the Laras and Corsairs of a by-past time, " the veriest puppets that were ever pulled by the strings of lust and pride," said one of those very " schoolmistresses in trousers." That so much moral garbage is devoured by the... | |
 | George Eliot - 1893 - 364 pages
...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...would certainly be made worse by being greased with bread-and-butter." " That is true, my dear," said Mr. Lyon, laying down the book on the small table... | |
 | George Eliot - 1905 - 728 pages
...'. 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." • <•> ' " Hand the 'foibok'lfco me^' said. Mr Lyoh. , . i " Let me beg of you to put it aside till after tea, father,"... | |
 | Barbara Hardy - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 258 pages
...the book down and picked it up to abuse it. Felix's denunciation of the Byronic heroes as 'the most paltry puppets that were ever pulled by the strings of lust and pride' echoes Mrs Transome's reading list, 'She was interested in stories of illicit passion'. The insistent... | |
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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... 
