Novels of George Eliot, Issue 35, Volume 5William Blackwood & Sons, 1867 |
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... heard in hamlets and villages . Here were powerful men walking queerly with knees bent outward from squatting in the mine , going home to throw themselves down in their blackened flannel and sleep through the daylight , then rise and ...
... heard in hamlets and villages . Here were powerful men walking queerly with knees bent outward from squatting in the mine , going home to throw themselves down in their blackened flannel and sleep through the daylight , then rise and ...
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... heard louder than a sleepy hum , and the soft monotony of running water hurrying on to the river that divided the park . Standing on the south or east side of the house , you would never have guessed that an arrival was expected . But ...
... heard louder than a sleepy hum , and the soft monotony of running water hurrying on to the river that divided the park . Standing on the south or east side of the house , you would never have guessed that an arrival was expected . But ...
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... heard herself called " Mother ! " and felt a light kiss on each cheek ; but stronger than all that sensation was the consciousness which no previous thought could prepare her for , that this son who had come back to her was a stranger ...
... heard herself called " Mother ! " and felt a light kiss on each cheek ; but stronger than all that sensation was the consciousness which no previous thought could prepare her for , that this son who had come back to her was a stranger ...
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... heard ? But this is what you do : when the servant of God stands up to deliver his message , do you lay your souls beneath the Word as you set out your plants beneath the falling rain ? No ; one of you sends his eyes to all corners , he ...
... heard ? But this is what you do : when the servant of God stands up to deliver his message , do you lay your souls beneath the Word as you set out your plants beneath the falling rain ? No ; one of you sends his eyes to all corners , he ...
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... heard most of the preachers once , but I never wanted to hear them twice . " The good Rufus was not without a slight rising of resent- ment at this young man's want of reverence . It was not yet plain whether he wanted to hear twice the ...
... heard most of the preachers once , but I never wanted to hear them twice . " The good Rufus was not without a slight rising of resent- ment at this young man's want of reverence . It was not yet plain whether he wanted to hear twice 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.