Works of George Eliot, Zväzok 3

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Century Company, 1910
 

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Strana 364 - God rest you, merry gentlemen, Let nothing you dismay, For Jesus Christ our Saviour Was born on Christmas-day.' Dolly listened with a devout look, glancing at Marner in some confidence that this strain would help to allure him to church. 'That's Christmas music,' she said, when Aaron had ended, and had secured his piece of cake again.
Strana 242 - ... from that thread, was not quite sure that this trade of weaving, indispensable though it was, could be carried on entirely without the help of the Evil One. In that far-off time superstition clung easily round every person or thing that was at all unwonted, or even intermittent and occasional merely, like the visits of the pedlar or the knife-grinder.
Strana 374 - Justice is like the Kingdom of God — it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning. CHAPTER LXVIII. ROMOLA'S WAKING. ROMOLA in her boat passed from dreaming into long deep sleep, and then again from deep sleep into busy dreaming, till at last she felt herself stretching out her arms in the court of the Bargello, where the flickering flames of the tapers seemed to get stronger and stronger...
Strana 420 - Marner took her on his lap, trembling with an emotion mysterious to himself, at something unknown dawning on his life. Thought and feeling were so confused within him, that if he had tried to give them utterance, he could only have said that the child was come instead of the gold — that the gold had turned into the child. lie took the garments from Dolly, and put them on under her teaching; interrupted, of course, by Baby's gymnastics. "There, then! why, you take to it quite easy, Master Marner,"...
Strana 241 - IN the days when the spinning-wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses — and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread-lace, had their toy spinningwheels of polished oak — there might be seen in districts far away among the lanes, or deep in the bosom of the hills, certain pallid undersized men, who, by the side of the brawny country-folk, looked like the remnants of a disinherited race.
Strana 306 - ... em. There may be two opinions, I hope." " Ay, ay," said Mr. Macey, who felt very well satisfied with this attack on youthful presumption ; "you're right there, Tookey : there's allays two 'pinions ; there's the 'pinion a man has of himsen, and there's the 'pinion other folks have on him. There'd be two 'pinions about a cracked bell, if the bell could hear itself.
Strana 391 - In Florence the simpler relations of the human being to his fellow-men had been complicated for her with all the «special ties of marriage, the State and religious discipleship, and when these had disappointed her trust the shock seemed to have shaken her aloof from life and stunned her sympathy. But now she said, " It was mere baseness in me to desire death. If everything else is doubtful, this suffering that I can help is certain; if the glory of the cross is an illusion, the sorrow is only the...

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