Novels of George Eliot, Issue 35, Volume 5William Blackwood & Sons, 1867 |
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... Suppose only that his journey took him through that central plain , watered at one extremity by the Avon , at the other by the Trent . As the morning silvered the meadows with their long lines of bushy willows marking the watercourses ...
... Suppose only that his journey took him through that central plain , watered at one extremity by the Avon , at the other by the Trent . As the morning silvered the meadows with their long lines of bushy willows marking the watercourses ...
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... suppose I should have spent more in buying an English estate some time or other . I always meant to be an Englishman , and thrash a lord or two who thrashed me at Eton . " " I hardly thought you could have meant that , Harold , when I ...
... suppose I should have spent more in buying an English estate some time or other . I always meant to be an Englishman , and thrash a lord or two who thrashed me at Eton . " " I hardly thought you could have meant that , Harold , when I ...
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... suppose you have been used to great luxury ; these rooms look miserable to you , but you can soon make any alteration you like . " " O , I must have a private sitting - room fitted up for myself down - stairs . And the rest are bedrooms ...
... suppose you have been used to great luxury ; these rooms look miserable to you , but you can soon make any alteration you like . " " O , I must have a private sitting - room fitted up for myself down - stairs . And the rest are bedrooms ...
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... suppose if I ring there's some fellow who can act as valet and learn to attend to my hookah ? " " There is Hickes the butler , and there is Jabez the footman ; those are all the men in the house . They were here when you left . " " O ...
... suppose if I ring there's some fellow who can act as valet and learn to attend to my hookah ? " " There is Hickes the butler , and there is Jabez the footman ; those are all the men in the house . They were here when you left . " " O ...
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... suppose we should leave off shoes and stockings , and walk about like cranes - whence it followed plainly enough that , in these hopeless times , nothing was left to men of sense and good family but to retard the national ruin by ...
... suppose we should leave off shoes and stockings , and walk about like cranes - whence it followed plainly enough that , in these hopeless times , nothing was left to men of sense and good family but to retard the national ruin by ...
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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.