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 6
... woman go to make sunshine and a soft pillow for the poor devil whose legs are not models , whose efforts are often blunders , and who in general gets more kicks than halfpence . : What mortal is there of us , who would find 6 George ...
... woman go to make sunshine and a soft pillow for the poor devil whose legs are not models , whose efforts are often blunders , and who in general gets more kicks than halfpence . : What mortal is there of us , who would find 6 George ...
Pagina 9
... , or a wizened old woman , but I see also , with my mind's eye , that Past of which they are the shrunken rem- nant , and the unfinished romance of rosy cheeks and 9 MR GILFIL'S LOVE-STORY George Eliot (in propria persona),
... , or a wizened old woman , but I see also , with my mind's eye , that Past of which they are the shrunken rem- nant , and the unfinished romance of rosy cheeks and 9 MR GILFIL'S LOVE-STORY George Eliot (in propria persona),
Pagina 12
... woman's love is always overshadowed by fear . -0- In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness ; he gives out again those beams of protecting fondness which were shed on him as he lay on his ...
... woman's love is always overshadowed by fear . -0- In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness ; he gives out again those beams of protecting fondness which were shed on him as he lay on his ...
Pagina 13
... woman who has learned to submit , carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission , and looks down with severe superiority on all feminine assumption as ' unbecoming . ' · 0 · With the poisoned garment upon him , the victim ...
... woman who has learned to submit , carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission , and looks down with severe superiority on all feminine assumption as ' unbecoming . ' · 0 · With the poisoned garment upon him , the victim ...
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... necessary condition . And an unloving , tyrannous , brutal man needs no motive to prompt his cruelty he needs only the perpetual presence of a ... woman he can call his own . A whole George Eliot ( in propria persona ) . 29.
... necessary condition . And an unloving , tyrannous , brutal man needs no motive to prompt his cruelty he needs only the perpetual presence of a ... woman he can call his own . A whole George Eliot ( in propria persona ) . 29.
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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