 A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills : to know that high initiation, she must often tread where it is hard to...  The Works of George Eliot: Felix Holt - Page 338by George Eliot - 1878Full view - About this book
 | George Eliot - 1867 - 446 pages
...lightly backward and forward, and leaned against the window-frame, and shook back her brown curls as she looked at something not visible, had lived hardly...must often tread where it is hard to tread, and feel the chill air, and watch through darkness. It is not true that love makes all things easy: it makes... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1868 - 548 pages
...lightly backward and forward, and leaned against the window-frame, and shook back her brown curls as she looked at something not visible, had lived hardly...must often tread where it is hard to tread, and feel the chill air, and watch through darkness. It is not true that love makes all things easy: it makes... | |
 | George Eliot - 1869 - 568 pages
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 | George Eliot - 1871 - 568 pages
...looked at something not visible, was scarcely changed, for the outward eye, in the last six months. But life is measured by the rapidity of change, the...must often tread where it is hard to tread, and feel the chill air, and watch through darkness. It is not true that love makes all things easy : it makes... | |
 | George Eliot, Alexander Main - Aphorisms and apothegms in literature - 1873 - 444 pages
...our life have changed less than our manners ; we wrestle with the old sorrows, but more decorously. A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm...must often tread where it is hard to tread, and feel the chill air, and watch through darkness. It is not true that love makes all things easy : it makes... | |
 | George Eliot - 1875 - 460 pages
...our life have changed less than our manners ; we wrestle with the old sorrows, but more decorously. A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm...must often tread where it is hard to tread, and feel the chill air, and watch through darkness. It is not true that love makes all things easy : it makes... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Women - 1882 - 448 pages
...as there are races. To the English woman it is a duty, to the French woman a propriety. — Tainc. A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm...must often tread where it is hard to tread, and feel the chill air, and watch through darkness. — George Eliot. 830 831 Married in haste to repent at... | |
 | George Eliot - 1883 - 802 pages
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 | George Willis Cooke - Biography & Autobiography - 1883 - 470 pages
...she accepted the distrust of friends- and the coldness of the world which her marriage brought her. A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm...partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had when and how she will : to know that high initiation, she must often tread where it is hard to tread,... | |
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