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" We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, - if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass; the same... "
Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works ... - Page 109
by George Eliot, Alexander Main - 1873 - 417 pages
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The Mill on the Floss, Volume 1

George Eliot - Fiction - 1860 - 384 pages
...in believing that the thoughts and loves of these first years would always make part of their lives. We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it,—if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather...
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The North British Review, Volume 33

English literature - 1860 - 598 pages
...in believing that the thoughts and loves of these first years would always make part of their lives. We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it,—if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather...
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The Mill on the Floss, Volume 1

George Eliot - Brothers and sisters - 1860 - 476 pages
...believing that the thoughts and'loves of these first years would always make part of their lives. We eould never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it—if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather...
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The North British Review, Volumes 32-33

1860 - 660 pages
...in believing that the thoughts and loves of these flrst years would always make part of their lives. We could never have loved the earth so well if we had hart no childhood in it, — if it were not the earth where the same flowers uome up again every spring...
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Novels [of George Eliot], Volume 2

George Eliot - 1870 - 816 pages
...and loves of these first years would always make part of their lives. We could never have loved th* earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, — if it " // ivas one rf fh'h' Ji.tjty tnirnings.* were not the earth where the same flowers come up again...
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St. Nicholas, Volume 47

Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1920 - 596 pages
...home rooted in her affections. With supreme tenderness George Eliot touches all her early memories : "We could never have loved the earth so well if we...— if it were not the earth where the same flowers came up every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves in...
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Wise, Witty and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse,: Selected from the Works ...

George Eliot - 1875 - 460 pages
...French springs excite no question. The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history. " We could never have loved the earth so well if we...hedgerows — the same redbreasts that we used to call c God's birds,' because they did no harm to the precious crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony...
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Essays and Reviews

Henry H. Lancaster - English literature - 1876 - 510 pages
...in believing that the thoughts and loves of these first years would always make part of their lives. We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it,—if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather...
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Papers of the Manchester Literary Club, Volumes 6-7

Manchester Literary Club - Literature - 1880 - 772 pages
...early associations of childhood is displayed in the following passage from The Mill on the Floss : — We could never have loved the earth so well if we...had no childhood in it— if it were not the earth, whore the same flowers come up again every spring, that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 7-8

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1881 - 856 pages
...never have loved the enrth ro wen if ire bad had no childhood in it— if it were not the eurth «her« the same flowers come up again every spring, that we used to gather with our tiny fingere им we sat lisping to ourselves on the ^raas — the same redbreasts that we used to call...
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