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" Madonna, turning her mild face upward and opening her arms to welcome the divine glory; but do not impose on us any aesthetic rules which shall banish from the region of Art those old women scraping carrots with their work-worn hands, those heavy clowns... "
Rose-Belford's Canadian Monthly and National Review - Page 264
1881
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Women of Worth: A Book for Girls

Women - 1863 - 316 pages
...should be able to admire — for whom you should cherish all possible hopes, all possible patience. In this world there are so many of these common, coarse...who have no picturesque sentimental wretchedness! It is so needful we should remember their existence, else we may happen to leave them quite out of...
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The Year-book of Photography and Photographic News Almanac for ...

Photography - 1889 - 1582 pages
...their work-worn hands ; those heavy clowns taking holiday in a dingy pothouse ; those rounded backa and stupid, weather-beaten faces, that have bent over the spade and done the rough work of the field." The French school of painters is not likely to set all its interpretation of landscape in a...
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The Year-book of Photography and Photographic News Almanac for ...

Photography - 1889 - 1004 pages
...their work-worn hands ; those heavy clowns taking holiday in a dingy pothouse ; those rounded backs aud stupid, weather-beaten faces, that have bent over the spade and done the rough work of the field." The French school of painters is not likely to set all its interpretation of landscape in a...
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Novels of George Eliot, Issue 35, Volume 1

George Eliot - 1867 - 486 pages
...scraping carrots with their work-worn hands, those heavy clowns taking holiday in a dingy pot-house, those rounded backs and stupid weather-beaten faces...who have no picturesque sentimental wretchedness! It is so needful we should remember their existence, else we may happen to leave them quite out of...
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Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works ...

George Eliot, Alexander Main - Aphorisms and apothegms in literature - 1873 - 444 pages
...scraping carrots with their work-worn hands, those heavy clowns taking holiday in a dingy pothouse, those rounded backs and stupid weather-beaten faces...people, who have no picturesque sentimental wretchedness ! It is so needful we should remember their existence, else we may happen to leave them quite out of...
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Wise, Witty and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse,: Selected from the Works ...

George Eliot - 1875 - 460 pages
...scraping carrots with their work-worn hands, those heavy clowns taking holiday in a dingy pothouse, those rounded backs and stupid weather-beaten faces...people, who have no picturesque sentimental wretchedness ! It is so needful we should remember their existence, else we may happen to leave them quite out of...
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How They Strike Me, These Authors

Joseph Converse Heywood - American literature - 1877 - 326 pages
...with quart pots in their hands, but with an expression of unmistakable contentment and good- will. '- In this world there are so many of these common, coarse...people who have no picturesque sentimental wretchedness ! It is so needful we should remember their existence, else we may happen to leave them quite out of...
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The Works of George Eliot: Adam Bede

George Eliot - 1878 - 456 pages
...scraping carrots with their work-worn hands, those heavy clowns taking holiday in a dingy pot-house, those rounded backs and stupid weather-beaten faces...pans, their brown pitchers, their rough curs, and then- clusters of onions. In this world there are so many of these common coarse people, who have no...
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Fraser's Magazine, Volume 102

1880 - 868 pages
...scraping carrots with their work-worn hands, those heavy clowns taking holiday in a dingy pot-house, those rounded backs and stupid, weatherbeaten faces...who have no picturesque, sentimental wretchedness. It is so needful we should remember their existence, else we may happen to leave them quite out of...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 32

American literature - 1880 - 798 pages
...scraping carrots with their work-worn hands, those heavy clowns taking holiday in a dingy pot-house, those rounded backs and stupid, weather-beaten faces...who have no picturesque, sentimental wretchedness. It is so needful we should remember their existence, else we may happen to leave them quite out of...
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