Novels of George Eliot, Issue 35, Volume 5William Blackwood & Sons, 1867 |
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Page 62
... Esther was recovering all the other articles . " The Dream ' -he'd better have been asleep and snoring . stuff your memory with Byron , Miss Lyon ? " What ! do you Felix , on his side , was led at last to look straight at Esther , but ...
... Esther was recovering all the other articles . " The Dream ' -he'd better have been asleep and snoring . stuff your memory with Byron , Miss Lyon ? " What ! do you Felix , on his side , was led at last to look straight at Esther , but ...
Page 63
... Esther . " You have such strong words at command , that they make the smallest argument seem formidable . If I had ever met the giant Cormoran , I should have made a point of agreeing with him in his literary opinions . " Esther had ...
... Esther . " You have such strong words at command , that they make the smallest argument seem formidable . If I had ever met the giant Cormoran , I should have made a point of agreeing with him in his literary opinions . " Esther had ...
Page 64
... Esther . " I heard Miss Jermyn tell her sister that she had seen him going out of her father's room . " " ' Tis strange , " said Mr Lyon . " Something extraordinary must have happened , " said Esther , " for Mr Jermyn to intend courting ...
... Esther . " I heard Miss Jermyn tell her sister that she had seen him going out of her father's room . " " ' Tis strange , " said Mr Lyon . " Something extraordinary must have happened , " said Esther , " for Mr Jermyn to intend courting ...
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... Esther , hastily , dreading a discourse on the pilgrim fathers . 66 66 " O they were an ugly lot ! " Felix burst in ... Esther . " Then , doubtless , you could have been more polite to me , Mr Holt , " said Esther , rising and placing ...
... Esther , hastily , dreading a discourse on the pilgrim fathers . 66 66 " O they were an ugly lot ! " Felix burst in ... Esther . " Then , doubtless , you could have been more polite to me , Mr Holt , " said Esther , rising and placing ...
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... Esther bowed very slightly , without speaking . " That is a singular young man , Esther , " said the minister , walking about after Felix was gone . " I discern in him a love for whatsoever things are honest and true , which I would ...
... Esther bowed very slightly , without speaking . " That is a singular young man , Esther , " said the minister , walking about after Felix was gone . " I discern in him a love for whatsoever things are honest and true , which I would ...
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Page 328 - ... good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Page 8 - But these things are often unknown to the world ; for there is much pain that is quite noiseless ; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence.
Page 44 - ... there is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life, from the time when the primeval milkmaid had to wander with the wanderings of her clan, because the cow she milked was one of a herd which had made the pastures bare.
Page 55 - My father was ignorant," said Felix, bluntly. "He knew neither the complication of the human system, nor the way in which drugs counteract each other. Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm. I know something about these things.
Page 166 - For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities — a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces — a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life.
Page 64 - A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs, and small notions, about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest. Ask your father what those old persecuted emigrant Puritans would have done with fine-lady wives and daughters.
Page 335 - Fond -man, remember that thou hast a wife ; Then how can Margaret be thy paramour ? Mar.
Page 274 - Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand Henceforward in thy shadow. Nevermore Alone upon the threshold of my door Of individual life, I shall command The uses of my soul, nor lift my hand Serenely in the sunshine as before, Without the sense of that which I forbore — Thy touch upon the palm.
Page 167 - It is a good and soothfast saw;' Half-roasted never will be raw; No dough is dried once more to meal No crock new-shapen by the wheel; You can't turn curds to milk again, Nor Now, by wishing, back to Then; And having tasted stolen honey, You can't buy innocence for money.