 | George Eliot - Domestic fiction - 1866 - 200 pages
...a daughter so little in his own likeness ? Married foolishly, I suppose. I'll never marry, thougji I should have to live on raw turnips to subdue my...children — I must lie and simper a little, else they'll starve ;' or, ' my wife is nice, she must have her bread well buttered, and her feelings will... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1866 - 352 pages
...spirit did he come to have a daughter so little in his own likeness 1 Married foolishly, I suppose. I'll never marry, though I should have to live on raw turnips...in the face; but pray excuse me, I have a wife and children—I must lie and simper a little, else they'll starve;' or, ' My wife is nice, she must have... | |
 | George Eliot - 1867 - 446 pages
...spirit did he come to have a daughter so little in his own likeness? Married foolishly, I suppose. I'll never marry, though I should have to live on raw turnips...children — I must lie and simper a little, else they'll starve ;' or ' My wife is nice, she must have her bread well buttered, and her feelings will... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1868 - 548 pages
...spirit did he come to have a daughter so little in his own likeness? Married foolishly, I suppose. I'll never marry, though I should have to live on raw turnips...children — I must lie and simper a little, else they'll starve ; ' or ' My wife is nice, she must have her bread well buttered, and her feelings will... | |
 | George Eliot - 1871 - 568 pages
...spirit did he come to have a daughter so little in his own likeness ? Married foolishly, I suppose. I'll never marry, though I should have to live on raw turnips...children — I must lie and simper a little, else they'll starve ;' or, ' my wife is nice, she must have her bread well buttered, and her feelings will... | |
 | George Eliot, Alexander Main - Aphorisms and apothegms in literature - 1873 - 444 pages
...notions, about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest. I '11 never marry, though I should have to live on raw turnips to subdue my flesh. I '11 never look back and say, ' I had a fine purpose once — I meant to keep my hands clean, and... | |
 | George Eliot - 1875 - 460 pages
...as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest. — o — I '11 never marry, though I should have to live on raw turnips to subdue my flesh. I '11 never look back and say, ' I had a fine purpose once — I meant to keep my hands clean, and... | |
 | George Eliot - 1878 - 368 pages
...spirit did he come to have a daughter so little in his own likeness? Married foolishly, I suppose. I'll never marry, though I should have to live on raw turnips...children — I must lie and simper a little, else they'll starve ; ' or ' My wife is nice, she must have her bread well buttered, and her feelings will... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1880 - 494 pages
...about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest. I 'll never marry, though I should have to live on raw turnips to subdue my flesh. I 'll never look back and say, ' I had a fine purpose once — I meant to keep my hands clean, and... | |
 | George Eliot - 1893 - 364 pages
...spirit did he come to have a daughter so little in his own likeness ? Married foolishly, I suppose I 'll never marry, though I should have to live on raw turnips to subdue my flesh. I 'll never look back and say, ' I had a fine purpose once, — I meant to keep my hands clean and... | |
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I'll never marry, though I should have to live on raw turnips to subdue my flesh. I'll never look back and say, ' I had a fine purpose once — I meant to keep my hands clean, and my soul upright, and to look truth in the face ; but pray excuse me, I... 
