 I have seen many an excellent matron, who could never in her best days have been handsome, and yet she had a packet of yellow love-letters in a private drawer, and sweet children showered kisses on her sallow cheeks. And I believe there have been plenty...  Adam Bede, by George Eliot - Page 8by Mary Ann Evans - 1859Full view - About this book
 | George Eliot - Carpenters - 1859 - 524 pages
...hands, but with an expression of unmistakable contentment and good-will. " Fob. !" says my idealist!'', friend, " what vulgar details ! What good is there...with resistless force and brings beauty with it. All honor and reverence to the divine beauty of form ! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women,... | |
 | George Eliot - Carpenters - 1859 - 520 pages
...all these pains to give an exact likeness of old women and clowns ? What a low phase of life i — what clumsy, ugly people !" But, bless us, things...with resistless force and brings beauty with it. All honor and reverence to the divine beauty of form ! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women,... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1859 - 390 pages
...who could never in her best days have been handsome, and yet she had a packet of yellow lore-letters in a private drawer, and sweet children showered kisses...rivers that bless the earth : it does not wait for beauty—it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. All honour and reverence to the... | |
 | George Eliot - Carpenters - 1859 - 468 pages
...heroes, of middle stature and feeble beards, who have felt quite sure they could never love any thing more insignificant than a Diana, and yet have found...rivers that bless the earth; it does not wait for beauty—it flows with resistless force, and brings beauty with it. All 1; .nor and reverence to the... | |
 | George Eliot - Carpenters - 1860 - 452 pages
...heroes, of middle stature and feeble beards, who have felt quite sure they could never love any thing more insignificant than a Diana, and yet have found...with resistless force, and brings beauty with it. All honor and reverence to the divine beauty of form ! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women,,... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1867 - 562 pages
...have been handsome, and yet she tad a packet of yellow love-letters in a private drawer, and Bweet children showered kisses on her sallow cheeks. And...flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. AH honour and reverence to the divine beauty of form ! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women,... | |
 | Manchester Literary Club - Literature - 1880 - 772 pages
...of yellow love-letters in a private drawer and sweet children showered kisses on her sallow checks. And I believe there have been plenty of young heroes,...honour and reverence to the divine beauty of form I Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women, and children— in our gardens and in our houses.... | |
 | American literature - 1880 - 798 pages
...plenty of young heroes of middle station and feeble beards, who have felt quite sure that they would never love anything more insignificant than a Diana,...resistless force and brings beauty with it. " All honor and reverence to the divine beauty of form ' Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women,... | |
 | 1880 - 868 pages
...plenty of young heroes of middle station and feeble beards, who have felt quite sure that they would never love anything more insignificant than a Diana,...earth : it does not wait for beauty ; it flows with re^istless force and brings beauty with it. All honour and reverence to the Divine beauty of form !... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1880 - 1614 pages
...in middle life happily settled «ili wife who waddles. Yes, thank God, human feeling is like the nip rivers that bless the earth : it does not wait for beauty ; it flows with <®' less force and brings beauty with it. All honour and reverence to the Divine beauty of form !... | |
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