 | Neil Hertz - 2003 - 198 pagini
...self-possession. In the opening pages of The Mill, what begins as an aerial description of a landscape — "A wide plain, where the broadening Floss hurries on between its green banks to the sea" (MF 53) — rapidly zooms in on the spot where a tributary flows into the river and Mr.... | |
 | L. Piccoli Calvi - 2003 - 300 pagini
...toil, but the evening repaid it with vacant hilarity. (From The Vicar of Wakefield by OLIVER GOLDSMITH) A wide plain, where the broadening Floss hurries on between its green banks to the sea, and the loving tide, rushing to meet it, checks its passage with impetuous embrace. On... | |
 | Kathleen George - 2005 - 244 pagini
...sentence but a place description — reads like a location description for a Victorian screenplay: "A wide plain, where the broadening Floss hurries on between its green banks to the sea, and the loving tide, rushing to meet it, checks its passage •with an impetuous embrace"... | |
 | Gillian Mary Hanson - 2005 - 189 pagini
...he stopped. He got a little frightened. "This must be the sea," he thought [The Water Babies, 82]. A wide plain, where the broadening Floss hurries on between its green banks to the sea, and the loving tide, rushing to meet it, checks its passage with an impetuous embrace [The... | |
 | George Eliot - 2006 - 522 pagini
...IV 472 Chapter I 473 Chapter II 481 Chapter III 490 Book I Boy and Girl Chapter I Outside Dorlcote A wide plain, where the broadening Floss hurries on between its green banks to the sea, and the loving tide, rushing to meet it, checks its passage with an impetuous embrace.... | |
 | 152 pagini
...shelter which it afforded to the plunderer and his plunder. Lord MACAULAY, History of England. 42.** THE FLOSS. A wide plain, where the broadening Floss hurries on between its green banks to the sea, and the loving tide, rushing to meet it, checks its passage with an impetuous embrace.... | |
 | 1885 - 316 pagini
...unfold a scene easily recognised by anyone familiar with that ancient town St. Ogg's (Gainsborough) : " A wide plain, where the broadening Floss hurries on between its green banks to the sea, and the loving tide, rushing to meet it, checks its passage with an impetuous embrace.... | |
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A wide plain, where the broadening Floss hurries on between its green banks to the sea, and the loving tide, rushing to meet it, checks its passage with an impetuous embrace. 
