If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. The Essays of "George Eliot." - Page 19by George Eliot - 1883 - 288 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1926 - 538 pages
...(12 S. xii. 353: cxlvi. 398).— The passage is from • Middle march ' and runs : — " If we had » keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life,...squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity."... | |
| 1872 - 444 pages
...camel weighs ten pounds, and is worth ;£20. The Bismuth mine in Utah is the only one in the world. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary...life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and 'he squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.... | |
| 1872 - 796 pages
...wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind : and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary...life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the~squirrcl's heart beat, and we should die ¡,f that roar which lies on the other sidr of silence.... | |
| 1872 - 864 pages
...itself into the coarse emotion of mankind ; imd perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If wo had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would bei liko hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we ehould die of that ruar which... | |
| Mary Ann Evans - 1873 - 432 pages
...wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind ; and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary...squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.... | |
| George Eliot, Alexander Main - 1873 - 444 pages
...wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind ; and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a. keen vision and feeling of all ordinary...squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1873 - 826 pages
...wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind : and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary...squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well-wadded with stupidity."... | |
| Mary Ann Evans - 1873 - 308 pages
...wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind; and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary...squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.... | |
| 1873 - 590 pages
...keen, and that a single step would bring her to the bound she feared to reach when she wrote, <• If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary...and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of the woe which lies the other side of silence/' HEH ENGLISH AND AMERICAN GENTLEWOMEN. Human nature is... | |
| 1874 - 900 pages
...wrought itself into the coarse emotions of mankind; and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary...squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity."... | |
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