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 xi
... light upon something which is either wise , or witty , or tender , or humorous . If this endeavour has been attended with any measure of success I have my reward . A classification of subjects was found to be out of the question ; yet ...
... light upon something which is either wise , or witty , or tender , or humorous . If this endeavour has been attended with any measure of success I have my reward . A classification of subjects was found to be out of the question ; yet ...
Pagina xii
... light there is in it streams from her alone as its source . It is scarcely necessary to add , that this little work by no means professes to have drained George Eliot's writings of the riches with which they so abound . Of course , only ...
... light there is in it streams from her alone as its source . It is scarcely necessary to add , that this little work by no means professes to have drained George Eliot's writings of the riches with which they so abound . Of course , only ...
Pagina 3
... light answers we returned to their plaints or their pleadings , for the little reverence we showed to that sacred human soul that lived so close to us , and was the divinest thing God had given us to know ! -0- Love is frightened at the ...
... light answers we returned to their plaints or their pleadings , for the little reverence we showed to that sacred human soul that lived so close to us , and was the divinest thing God had given us to know ! -0- Love is frightened at the ...
Pagina 13
... light ; for an instant they show the inward semi - con- sciousness of an infant's ; then , with a little start , they open wider and begin to look ; the present is visible , but only as a strange writing , and the interpreter George ...
... light ; for an instant they show the inward semi - con- sciousness of an infant's ; then , with a little start , they open wider and begin to look ; the present is visible , but only as a strange writing , and the interpreter George ...
Pagina 18
... light thing to fail in love and reverence to the brother who has to climb the whole toilsome steep with us , and all our tears and tenderness were due to the one who is spared that hard journey . Mighty is the force of motherhood ! says ...
... light thing to fail in love and reverence to the brother who has to climb the whole toilsome steep with us , and all our tears and tenderness were due to the one who is spared that hard journey . Mighty is the force of motherhood ! says ...
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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