Wise, Witty and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse,: Selected from the Works of George EliotW. Blackwood and sons, 1875 - 417 pagini |
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Pagina 9
... beauty ; and the trivial erring life which we visit with our harsh blame , may be but as the unsteady motion of a man whose best limb is withered . 0 Alas , alas ! we poor mortals are often little better than wood - ashes - there is ...
... beauty ; and the trivial erring life which we visit with our harsh blame , may be but as the unsteady motion of a man whose best limb is withered . 0 Alas , alas ! we poor mortals are often little better than wood - ashes - there is ...
Pagina 10
... beauty to beauty , which to the happy is like the flow 事 of a melody , measures for many a human ΙΟ George Eliot ( in propria persona ) .
... beauty to beauty , which to the happy is like the flow 事 of a melody , measures for many a human ΙΟ George Eliot ( in propria persona ) .
Pagina 11
... beauty . The stars were rushing in their eternal courses ; the tides swelled to the level of the last expectant weed ; the sun was making brilliant day to busy nations on the other side of the swift earth . The stream of human thought ...
... beauty . The stars were rushing in their eternal courses ; the tides swelled to the level of the last expectant weed ; the sun was making brilliant day to busy nations on the other side of the swift earth . The stream of human thought ...
Pagina 27
... see it , it startles us as if we had suddenly waked into the real world of which this everyday one is but a puppet - show copy . . Janet had that enduring beauty which belongs to pure George Eliot ( in propria persona ) . 27.
... see it , it startles us as if we had suddenly waked into the real world of which this everyday one is but a puppet - show copy . . Janet had that enduring beauty which belongs to pure George Eliot ( in propria persona ) . 27.
Pagina 28
... beauty which belongs to pure majestic outline and depth of tint . Sorrow and neglect leave their traces on such beauty , but it thrills us to the last , like a glorious Greek temple , which , for all the loss it has suffered from time ...
... beauty which belongs to pure majestic outline and depth of tint . Sorrow and neglect leave their traces on such beauty , but it thrills us to the last , like a glorious Greek temple , which , for all the loss it has suffered from time ...
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Pagina 23 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
Pagina 109 - We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, — if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass — the same hips and haws on the autumn hedgerows — the same redbreasts that we used to call ' God's birds,' because they did no harm to the precious crops.
Pagina 211 - We can only have the highest happiness, such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts, and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves ; and this sort of happiness often brings so much pain with it that we can only tell it from pain by its being what we would choose before every thing else, because our souls see it is good.
Pagina 155 - In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads, them forth gently toward a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child's.
Pagina 42 - And I would not, even if I had the choice, be the clever novelist who could create a world so much better than this, in which we get up in the morning to do our daily work, that you would be likely to turn a harder, colder eye on the dusty streets and the common green fields — on the real breathing men and women, who can be chilled by your indifference or injured by your prejudice ; who can be cheered and helped onward by your fellow-feeling, your forbearance, your outspoken, brave justice.
Pagina 65 - Look there, now! I can't abide to see men throw away their tools i' that way, the minute the clock begins to strike, as if they took no pleasure i' their work, and was afraid o