Novels of George Eliot, Issue 35, Volume 5William Blackwood & Sons, 1867 |
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George Eliot. NOVELS OF GEORGE ELIOT VOL . V. FELIX HOLT WITH JLLUSTRATIONS LITTLE TREBY . WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS EDINBURGH AND LONDON ENGLISH OXFORD LIBRARY FELIX HOLT THE RADICAL BY GEORGE ELIOT " Upon the.
George Eliot. NOVELS OF GEORGE ELIOT VOL . V. FELIX HOLT WITH JLLUSTRATIONS LITTLE TREBY . WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS EDINBURGH AND LONDON ENGLISH OXFORD LIBRARY FELIX HOLT THE RADICAL BY GEORGE ELIOT " Upon the.
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George Eliot. FELIX HOLT THE RADICAL BY GEORGE ELIOT " Upon the midlands now the industrious muse doth fall , The shires which we the heart of England well may call . • My native country thou , which so brave spirits hast bred , If there ...
George Eliot. FELIX HOLT THE RADICAL BY GEORGE ELIOT " Upon the midlands now the industrious muse doth fall , The shires which we the heart of England well may call . • My native country thou , which so brave spirits hast bred , If there ...
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... . Price 3s . 6d . III . SILAS THE MARNER : RAVELOE . WEAVER OF WITH THREE ILLUSTRATIONS . Price 3s . IV . SCENES OF CLERICAL LIFE . WITH SIX ILLUSTRATIONS . Price 3s . FELIX HOLT , THE RADICAL . INTRODUCTION . FIVE -
... . Price 3s . 6d . III . SILAS THE MARNER : RAVELOE . WEAVER OF WITH THREE ILLUSTRATIONS . Price 3s . IV . SCENES OF CLERICAL LIFE . WITH SIX ILLUSTRATIONS . Price 3s . FELIX HOLT , THE RADICAL . INTRODUCTION . FIVE -
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... Radical ; and how , the parson having one Sunday preached from the words , " Break up your fal- low - ground , " the people thought he had made the text out of his own head , otherwise it would never have come " so pat " on a matter of ...
... Radical ; and how , the parson having one Sunday preached from the words , " Break up your fal- low - ground , " the people thought he had made the text out of his own head , otherwise it would never have come " so pat " on a matter of ...
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... for it , they were welcome . However , Lawyer Jermyn had sat on that box - seat many and many a time . He had made the wills of most people thereabout . The coachman would not say that Lawyer Jermyn was choose to make THE RADICAL . 7.
... for it , they were welcome . However , Lawyer Jermyn had sat on that box - seat many and many a time . He had made the wills of most people thereabout . The coachman would not say that Lawyer Jermyn was choose to make THE RADICAL . 7.
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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.