Novels of George Eliot, Issue 35, Volume 5William Blackwood & Sons, 1867 |
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... hear the tinkling of their bells on this very highway . In those days there were pocket boroughs , a Birmingham unrepresented in Parliament and compelled to make strong representations out of it , unrepealed corn - laws , three - and ...
... hear the tinkling of their bells on this very highway . In those days there were pocket boroughs , a Birmingham unrepresented in Parliament and compelled to make strong representations out of it , unrepealed corn - laws , three - and ...
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... hear the gentle knocking at the door to which she had been deaf before . Notwithstanding her activity and the fewness of her servants , she had never dressed herself without aid ; nor would that small , neat , exquisitely clean old ...
... hear the gentle knocking at the door to which she had been deaf before . Notwithstanding her activity and the fewness of her servants , she had never dressed herself without aid ; nor would that small , neat , exquisitely clean old ...
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... hear all about the game and the North Loamshire hunt . I'm fond of sport ; we had a great deal of it at Smyrna , and it keeps down my fat . " The Reverend John Lingon became very talkative over his second bottle of port , which was ...
... hear all about the game and the North Loamshire hunt . I'm fond of sport ; we had a great deal of it at Smyrna , and it keeps down my fat . " The Reverend John Lingon became very talkative over his second bottle of port , which was ...
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... hear and see what they said and did with preternatural acuteness , and yet she was also seeing and hearing what had been said and done many years before , and feeling a dim terror about the future . There were piteous sensibilities in ...
... hear and see what they said and did with preternatural acuteness , and yet she was also seeing and hearing what had been said and done many years before , and feeling a dim terror about the future . There were piteous sensibilities in ...
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... hear The tiny bleat of new - yeaned lambs , or see The children bend beside the hedgerow banks To pluck the primroses . TREBY MAGNA , on which the Reform Bill had thrust the new honour of being a polling - place , had been , at the ...
... hear The tiny bleat of new - yeaned lambs , or see The children bend beside the hedgerow banks To pluck the primroses . TREBY MAGNA , on which the Reform Bill had thrust the new honour of being a polling - place , had been , at the ...
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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.