Novels of George Eliot, Issue 35, Volume 5William Blackwood & Sons, 1867 |
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... expected at Transome Court . As early as two o'clock in the afternoon the aged lodge - keeper had opened the heavy gate , green as the tree trunks were green with nature's powdery paint , deposited year after year . Already in the ...
... expected at Transome Court . As early as two o'clock in the afternoon the aged lodge - keeper had opened the heavy gate , green as the tree trunks were green with nature's powdery paint , deposited year after year . Already in the ...
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... expected . But on the west side , where the carriage entrance was , the gates under the stone archway were thrown open ; and so was the double door of the entrance - hall , letting in the warm light on the scagliola pillars , the marble ...
... expected . But on the west side , where the carriage entrance was , the gates under the stone archway were thrown open ; and so was the double door of the entrance - hall , letting in the warm light on the scagliola pillars , the marble ...
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... expected only her son , she would have trembled less ; she expected a little grandson also : and there were reasons why she had not been enraptured when her son had written to her only when he was on the eve of returning that he already ...
... expected only her son , she would have trembled less ; she expected a little grandson also : and there were reasons why she had not been enraptured when her son had written to her only when he was on the eve of returning that he already ...
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... expected to be liberal in that wider sense which commands majorities . " " I wish this man were not so much of a talker , " thought Harold ; " he'll bore me . We shall see , " he said aloud , " what can be done in the way of combination ...
... expected to be liberal in that wider sense which commands majorities . " " I wish this man were not so much of a talker , " thought Harold ; " he'll bore me . We shall see , " he said aloud , " what can be done in the way of combination ...
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... indifference , which was perhaps exaggerated by the fact that he was inwardly surprised . The minister's daughter was not the sort of person he expected . She was quite incongruous with his notion of ministers ' daughters in 60 FELIX HOLT ,
... indifference , which was perhaps exaggerated by the fact that he was inwardly surprised . The minister's daughter was not the sort of person he expected . She was quite incongruous with his notion of ministers ' daughters in 60 FELIX HOLT ,
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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.