Novels of George Eliot, Issue 35, Volume 5William Blackwood & Sons, 1867 |
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... poor - rates . But as the day wore on the scene would change : the land would begin to be blackened with coal - pits , the rattle of handlooms to be heard in hamlets and villages . Here were powerful men walking queerly with knees bent ...
... poor - rates . But as the day wore on the scene would change : the land would begin to be blackened with coal - pits , the rattle of handlooms to be heard in hamlets and villages . Here were powerful men walking queerly with knees bent ...
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... poor , half - witted a fellow as you'd wish to see ; but she was master , had come of a high family , and had a spirit - you might see it in her eye and the way she sat her horse . Forty years ago , when she came into this country ...
... poor , half - witted a fellow as you'd wish to see ; but she was master , had come of a high family , and had a spirit - you might see it in her eye and the way she sat her horse . Forty years ago , when she came into this country ...
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... poor father is ! Paralysis , eh ? Ter- ribly shrunk and shaken - crawls about among his books and beetles as usual , though . Well , it's a slow and easy death . But he's not much over sixty - five , is he ? ” " Sixty - seven , counting ...
... poor father is ! Paralysis , eh ? Ter- ribly shrunk and shaken - crawls about among his books and beetles as usual , though . Well , it's a slow and easy death . But he's not much over sixty - five , is he ? ” " Sixty - seven , counting ...
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... poor to keep servants for uninhabited rooms . " " What ! you've been rather pinched , eh ? " " You find us living as we have been living these twelve years . " 66 Ah , you've had Durfey's debts as well as the lawsuits -confound them ...
... poor to keep servants for uninhabited rooms . " " What ! you've been rather pinched , eh ? " " You find us living as we have been living these twelve years . " 66 Ah , you've had Durfey's debts as well as the lawsuits -confound them ...
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... poor sticks of young trees and iron hurdles . " " Yes , but the Radical sticks are growing , mother , and half the Tory oaks are rotting , " said Harold , with gay carelessness . " You've arranged for Jermyn to be early to - morrow ...
... poor sticks of young trees and iron hurdles . " " Yes , but the Radical sticks are growing , mother , and half the Tory oaks are rotting , " said Harold , with gay carelessness . " You've arranged for Jermyn to be early to - morrow ...
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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.