Novels of George Eliot, Issue 35, Volume 5William Blackwood & Sons, 1867 |
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... possible countries , and that if there were any facts which had not fallen under their own observation , they were facts not worth observing : the district of clean little market - towns without manufactures , of fat livings , an ...
... possible countries , and that if there were any facts which had not fallen under their own observation , they were facts not worth observing : the district of clean little market - towns without manufactures , of fat livings , an ...
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... possible to the lingering gaze of the portrait , had travelled quickly over the room , alighting on her again as she said , 66 see . " Everything is changed , Harold . I am an old woman , you " But straighter and more upright than some ...
... possible to the lingering gaze of the portrait , had travelled quickly over the room , alighting on her again as she said , 66 see . " Everything is changed , Harold . I am an old woman , you " But straighter and more upright than some ...
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... possible . Gad , what fine oaks those are opposite ! Some of them must come down , though . " " I've held every tree sacred on the demesne , as I told you , Harold . I trusted to your getting the estate some time , and releasing it ...
... possible . Gad , what fine oaks those are opposite ! Some of them must come down , though . " " I've held every tree sacred on the demesne , as I told you , Harold . I trusted to your getting the estate some time , and releasing it ...
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... possible fortune still made some ground for his mother to plant her hopes in . His luck had not failed him ; yet nothing had turned out accord- ing to her expectations . Her life had been like a spoiled shabby pleasure - day , in which ...
... possible fortune still made some ground for his mother to plant her hopes in . His luck had not failed him ; yet nothing had turned out accord- ing to her expectations . Her life had been like a spoiled shabby pleasure - day , in which ...
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... possible quiver discernible across Jermyn's face . Otherwise he sat as he had done before , with his eyes fixed abstractedly on the frill of a ham before him , and his hand trifling with his fork . He did not answer C immediately , but ...
... possible quiver discernible across Jermyn's face . Otherwise he sat as he had done before , with his eyes fixed abstractedly on the frill of a ham before him , and his hand trifling with his fork . He did not answer C immediately , but ...
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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.