Novels of George Eliot, Issue 35, Volume 5William Blackwood & Sons, 1867 |
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... wish to see ; but she was master , had come of a high family , and had a spirit - you might see it in her eye and the way she sat her horse . Forty years ago , when she came into this country , they said she was a pictur ' but her ...
... wish to see ; but she was master , had come of a high family , and had a spirit - you might see it in her eye and the way she sat her horse . Forty years ago , when she came into this country , they said she was a pictur ' but her ...
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... wish opposed to filial kindness , but his busy thoughts were imperiously determined by habits which had no reference to any woman's feeling ; and even if he could have conceived what his mother's feeling was , his mind , after that ...
... wish opposed to filial kindness , but his busy thoughts were imperiously determined by habits which had no reference to any woman's feeling ; and even if he could have conceived what his mother's feeling was , his mind , after that ...
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... wishes . The return was still looked for with longing ; affection and satisfied pride would again warm her later years . She was ignorant what sort of man Harold had become now , and of course he must be changed in many ways ; but ...
... wishes . The return was still looked for with longing ; affection and satisfied pride would again warm her later years . She was ignorant what sort of man Harold had become now , and of course he must be changed in many ways ; but ...
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... wish that every one about him should like his mas- tery ; not caring greatly to know other people's thoughts , and ready to despise them as blockheads if their thoughts differed from his , and yet solicitous that they should have no ...
... wish that every one about him should like his mas- tery ; not caring greatly to know other people's thoughts , and ready to despise them as blockheads if their thoughts differed from his , and yet solicitous that they should have no ...
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... up . It doesn't signify what they think - they are not called upon to judge or to act . You must really leave me to take my own course in these matters , which properly belong to men . Beyond that , I will gratify any wish 34 FELIX HOLT ,
... up . It doesn't signify what they think - they are not called upon to judge or to act . You must really leave me to take my own course in these matters , which properly belong to men . Beyond that , I will gratify any wish 34 FELIX HOLT ,
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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.