Novels of George Eliot, Issue 35, Volume 5William Blackwood & Sons, 1867 |
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... regard , his family relations entirely without scandal . He knew that affairs had been unpleasant in his youth — that there had been ugly lawsuits — and that his scapegrace brother Durfey had helped to lower still farther the depressed ...
... regard , his family relations entirely without scandal . He knew that affairs had been unpleasant in his youth — that there had been ugly lawsuits — and that his scapegrace brother Durfey had helped to lower still farther the depressed ...
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... regard him as a gentleman and their equal . He had known no evil of the man ; but he saw now that if he were really a covetous upstart , there had been a temptation for him in the management of the Transome affairs ; and it was clear ...
... regard him as a gentleman and their equal . He had known no evil of the man ; but he saw now that if he were really a covetous upstart , there had been a temptation for him in the management of the Transome affairs ; and it was clear ...
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... regard of any other kind . Wise Dissenting matrons were divided between fear lest their sons should want to marry her and resentment that she should treat those " undeniable " young men with a dis- tant scorn which was hardly to be ...
... regard of any other kind . Wise Dissenting matrons were divided between fear lest their sons should want to marry her and resentment that she should treat those " undeniable " young men with a dis- tant scorn which was hardly to be ...
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... regards : he prayed and pleaded for her with tears , humbling himself for her spir- itual deficiencies in the privacy of his study ; and then came down - stairs to find himself in timorous subjection to her wishes , lest , as he ...
... regards : he prayed and pleaded for her with tears , humbling himself for her spir- itual deficiencies in the privacy of his study ; and then came down - stairs to find himself in timorous subjection to her wishes , lest , as he ...
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... regard it as the voice of the tempter : the conviction which had been the law of his better life remained within him as a conscience . The struggle of that night was an abridgment of all the struggles that came after . Quick souls have ...
... regard it as the voice of the tempter : the conviction which had been the law of his better life remained within him as a conscience . The struggle of that night was an abridgment of all the struggles that came after . Quick souls have ...
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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.