Novels of George Eliot, Issue 35, Volume 5William Blackwood & Sons, 1867 |
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... close by her , and as often , when its young brown eyes met hers , turning away again with self - checking resolution . At last , prompted by some sudden thought or by some sound , she rose and went hastily beyond the tapestry curtain ...
... close by her , and as often , when its young brown eyes met hers , turning away again with self - checking resolution . At last , prompted by some sudden thought or by some sound , she rose and went hastily beyond the tapestry curtain ...
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... close to it and looking at her face with hard scrutiny , as if it were unrelated to herself . No elderly face can be handsome , looked at in that way ; every little detail is startlingly prominent , and the effect of the whole is lost ...
... close to it and looking at her face with hard scrutiny , as if it were unrelated to herself . No elderly face can be handsome , looked at in that way ; every little detail is startlingly prominent , and the effect of the whole is lost ...
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... close connection with the family affairs - a - I have never considered that connection simply in the light of business - a- 99 " Damn him , I'll soon let him know that I do , ” thought Har- old . But in proportion as he found Jermyn's ...
... close connection with the family affairs - a - I have never considered that connection simply in the light of business - a- 99 " Damn him , I'll soon let him know that I do , ” thought Har- old . But in proportion as he found Jermyn's ...
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... close relations with the local landed interest — and took on the more complex life brought by mines and manufactures , which belong more directly to the great circulating system of the nation than to the local system to which they have ...
... close relations with the local landed interest — and took on the more complex life brought by mines and manufactures , which belong more directly to the great circulating system of the nation than to the local system to which they have ...
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... close to Felix and laying a hand on his shoulder , " speak not lightly of the Divine operations , and restrain un- seemly words . " " I'm not speaking lightly , " said Felix . " If I had not seen that I was making a hog of myself very ...
... close to Felix and laying a hand on his shoulder , " speak not lightly of the Divine operations , and restrain un- seemly words . " " I'm not speaking lightly , " said Felix . " If I had not seen that I was making a hog of myself very ...
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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.