Novels of George Eliot, Issue 35, Volume 5William Blackwood & Sons, 1867 |
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... seated on the box from the dawn to the gloaming gathered enough stories of English life , enough of English labours in town and country , enough aspects of earth and sky , to make episodes for a modern Odyssey . Suppose only that his ...
... seated on the box from the dawn to the gloaming gathered enough stories of English life , enough of English labours in town and country , enough aspects of earth and sky , to make episodes for a modern Odyssey . Suppose only that his ...
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... seated herself each time she re - entered , there hung a picture of a youthful face which bore a strong resemblance to her own : a beardless but masculine face , with rich brown hair hanging low on the forehead , and un- dulating beside ...
... seated herself each time she re - entered , there hung a picture of a youthful face which bore a strong resemblance to her own : a beardless but masculine face , with rich brown hair hanging low on the forehead , and un- dulating beside ...
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... seated himself with Nimrod the retriever on an ottoman . Peep- ing at him again , a few minutes after , she saw that he had his arm round Nimrod's neck , and was uttering his thoughts to the dog in a loud whisper , as little children do ...
... seated himself with Nimrod the retriever on an ottoman . Peep- ing at him again , a few minutes after , she saw that he had his arm round Nimrod's neck , and was uttering his thoughts to the dog in a loud whisper , as little children do ...
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... seated in his distant Smyrna home , considered that he was taking a rational view of what things must have become by this time at the old place in England , when he figured his mo- ther as a good elderly lady , who would necessarily be ...
... seated in his distant Smyrna home , considered that he was taking a rational view of what things must have become by this time at the old place in England , when he figured his mo- ther as a good elderly lady , who would necessarily be ...
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... seated . She was a tall elderly woman , dressed in black , with a light - brown front and a black band over her forehead . She moved the chair a little and seated herself in it with some emphasis , looking fixedly at the opposite wall ...
... seated . She was a tall elderly woman , dressed in black , with a light - brown front and a black band over her forehead . She moved the chair a little and seated herself in it with some emphasis , looking fixedly at the opposite wall ...
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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.