Novels of George Eliot, Issue 35, Volume 5William Blackwood & Sons, 1867 |
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... or had the rare advantage of a lease , and could afford to keep their corn till prices had risen . The coach would be sure to overtake some of them on their way to their outlying fields or to the market - town , THE RADICAL . 3.
... or had the rare advantage of a lease , and could afford to keep their corn till prices had risen . The coach would be sure to overtake some of them on their way to their outlying fields or to the market - town , THE RADICAL . 3.
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... sure that old England was the best of all 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 ...
... sure that old England was the best of all 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 ...
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... sure of being fretted by bad news about her dissolute eldest son than of hearing anything to cheer her from Harold . She had begun to live merely in small imme- diate cares and occupations , and , like all eager - minded women who ...
... sure of being fretted by bad news about her dissolute eldest son than of hearing anything to cheer her from Harold . She had begun to live merely in small imme- diate cares and occupations , and , like all eager - minded women who ...
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... sure that she should clasp her son again , and feel that he was the same who had been her boy , her little one , the loved child of her passionate youth . An hour seemed to have changed everything for her . A woman's hopes are woven of ...
... sure that she should clasp her son again , and feel that he was the same who had been her boy , her little one , the loved child of her passionate youth . An hour seemed to have changed everything for her . A woman's hopes are woven of ...
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... sure that his uncle would thoroughly retain this satisfactory thread of argument in the uninspired hours of the morning ; but the old gentleman was sure to take the facts easily in the end , and there was no fear of family coolness or ...
... sure that his uncle would thoroughly retain this satisfactory thread of argument in the uninspired hours of the morning ; but the old gentleman was sure to take the facts easily in the end , and there was no fear of family coolness or ...
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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.