 | George Eliot - 1871 - 432 pagini
...be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity. However, Dorothea was crying, and if she had been required to state the cause, she could only have... | |
 | 1872 - 444 pagini
...be like hearing the grass grow and 'he squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded intb. stupidity.— George Elliott. I think half the troubles for which men go slouching in prayer... | |
 | George Eliot, Alexander Main - 1873 - 444 pagini
...be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity. To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1873 - 432 pagini
...be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity. However, Dorothea was crying, and if she had been required to state the cause, she could only have... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1873 - 308 pagini
...be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity. However, Dorothea was crying, and if she had been required to state the cause, she could only have... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1873 - 826 pagini
...be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well-wadded with stupidity." — Vol. i., ' P- 35 «• " Character is not cut in marble — it is... | |
 | 1874 - 900 pagini
...be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity." Had George Eliot been gifted with faith as with reason, she could not have written that paragraph without... | |
 | George Eliot - 1875 - 460 pagini
...be like . hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity. To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any... | |
 | 1878 - 598 pagini
...squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side, of silence," and that " As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity. " Jin San FrancUeo Mlcroncoplcml Society. — A regular meeting of the San Francisco MicroscopiI cal... | |
 | 1881 - 902 pagini
...be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity." — (xx.) " Lydgate was at present too ill acquainted with disaster to enter into the pathos of a lot... | |
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If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well... 
