In these midland districts the traveller passed rapidly from one phase of English life to another ; after looking down on a village dingy with coal-dust, noisy with the shaking of looms, he might 1823.] Coaching Days. 7 skirt a parish all of fields, high... Works of George Eliot ...: Felix Holt - Page 5by George Eliot - 1901Full view - About this book
| Dublin city, univ - 1883 - 510 pages
...le dossier contenait des procea-verbaux de contraventions a la police de la voirie. Translate : — In these midland districts the traveller passed rapidly...rattled over the pavement of a manufacturing town, the scenes of riots and trades-union meetings, it would take him in another ten minutes into a rural region,... | |
| George Eliot - Literary Criticism - 1885 - 540 pages
...fine old woods covering a rising ground, or stretching far by the roadside, allowing only peeps at the park and mansion which they shut in from the working-day...life to another : after looking down on a village ding)' with coal - dust, noisy with the shaking of looms, he might skirt a parish all of fields, high... | |
| George Eliot - Literary Criticism - 1885 - 396 pages
...fine old woods covering a rising ground, or stretching far by the roadside, allowing only peeps at the park and mansion which they shut in from the working-day world. In these midland districts the I traveller passed rapidly from one phase of English life "l another ; after looking down on a village... | |
| S. Parkinson - Literary landmarks - 1888 - 158 pages
...old woods covering a rising ground, or stretching far by the road side, allowing only peeps at the park and mansion which they shut in from the working-day...districts the traveller passed rapidly from one phase of life to another ; after looking down on a village dingy with coal-dust, noisy with the shaking of looms,... | |
| George Eliot - Readers - 1895 - 298 pages
...fine old woods covering a rising ground, or stretching far by the roadside, allowing only peeps at the park and mansion which they shut in from the working-day...one phase of English life to another ; after looking on a village dingy with coal-dust, noisy with the shaking of looms, he might skirt a parish all of... | |
| George Eliot - English fiction - 1895 - 272 pages
...fine old woods covering a rising ground, or stretching far by the roadside, allowing only peeps at the park and mansion which they shut in from the working-day...one phase of English life to another ; after looking on a village dingy with coal,dust, noisy with the shaking of looms, he might skirt a parish all of... | |
| George Eliot - 1905 - 728 pages
...stretching far by the roadside, allowing only peeps at the park and mansion which they shut in fmni the working-day world. In these midland districts...lanes; after the coach had rattled over the pavement of n manufacturing town, the scene of riots and trades-union meetings, it would take him in another ten... | |
| Mary Hannah Deakin - Authors, English - 1913 - 244 pages
...and of dissent. " Here was a population not convinced that old England was as good as possible." " In these Midland districts the traveller passed rapidly...another. After looking down on a village dingy with coal dust, noisy with the shaking of looms, he might skirt a parish all of fields, high hedges, and... | |
| George Eliot - England - 1913 - 364 pages
...fine old woods covering a rising ground, or stretching far by the roadside, allowing only peeps at the park and mansion which they shut in from the working-day...districts the traveller passed rapidly from one phase of Eng-- lish life to another : after looking down on a village dingy with coal-dust, noisy with the shaking... | |
| 1928 - 398 pages
...multitudinous men and women aware that their religion was not exactly the religion of their rulers. . . . In these midland districts the traveller passed rapidly from one phase of English life to another." Times were changing. It was in this transition period that Robert Peel grew up. He belonged to the... | |
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