 But good society, floated on gossamer wings of light irony, is of very expensive production; requiring nothing less than a wide and arduous national life condensed in unfragrant deafening factories, cramping itself in mines, sweating at furnaces, grinding,...  The National Review - Page 200edited by - 1860Full view - About this book
 | George Eliot - 1860 - 476 pages
...has its claret and its velvet carpets, its dinner-engagements six weeks deep, its opera and its faery ball-rooms; rides off its ennui on thorough-bred horses,...heavy years often in a chill, uncarpeted fashion, amid family discord unsoftened by long corridors. Under such circumstances, there are many among its... | |
 | George Eliot - 1860 - 340 pages
...corn-lands, where the rainy days look dreary. This wide national life is based entirely on emphasis — the emphasis of want, which urges it into all the activities...: life in this unpleasurable shape demanding some salution even to unspeculative minds ; just as you inquire into the stuffing of your couch when anything... | |
 | George Eliot - 1860 - 478 pages
...corn-lands, where the rainy days look dreary. This wide national life is based entirely on emphasis — the emphasis of want, which urges it into all the activities...heavy years often in a chill, uncarpeted fashion, amid family discord unsoftened by long corridors. Under such circumstances, there are many among its... | |
 | George Eliot - 1860 - 418 pages
...corn-lands, where the rainy days look dreary. This wide national Jife is based entirely on emphasis — the emphasis of want, which urges it into all the activities...irony : it spends its heavy years often in a chill, "Vuncarpeted fashion, amidst family discord unsoftened by long corridors. Under such circumstances,... | |
 | 1860 - 528 pages
...corn-lands,^ where the rainy days look dreary. This wide national life is based, entirely on emphasis — the emphasis of want, which urges it into all the activities...irony: it spends its heavy years often In a chill, tincarpeted fashion, amidst family discord unsoftened by long corridors. Under such cir- . cnmstnnces,... | |
 | 1869 - 590 pages
...ironically of ' good society,' says, ' This wide national life is based entirely on emphasis — the emphasis of want, which urges it into all the activities...irony ; it spends its heavy years often in a chill, nncarpeted fashion, amidst family discord, unsoftened by long corridors. Under such circumstances there... | |
 | George Eliot - 1870 - 816 pages
...corn-lands, where the rainy days look dreary. This wide national life is based entirely on emphasis, — the emphasis of want, which urges it into all the activities...light irony : it spends its heavy years often in a chili, uncarpeted fashion, amidst family discord unsoftened by long corridors. Under such circumstances,... | |
 | George Eliot - 1883 - 850 pages
...lands, where the rainy days look dreary. This wide national life is based entirely on emphasis — the emphasis of want, which urges it into all the activities...heavy years often in a chill, uncarpeted fashion, amid family discord unsoftened by long corridors. Under such circumstances, there are many among its... | |
 | George Eliot - 1886 - 516 pages
...corn-lands, where the rainy days look dreary. This wide national life is based entirely on emphasis — the emphasis of want — which urges it into all the activities...a chill, uncarpeted fashion amidst family discord nnsoftened by long corridors. Under such circumstances, there are many among its myriads of souls who... | |
 | Ontario. Legislative Assembly - 1899 - 964 pages
...emphasis — the emphasis of want, which urges it into the activities necessary for the maintainence of good society and light irony ; it spends its heavy years often in a chill, uncarpeted fashion, amid family discord unsof tened by long corridors. Under such circumstances, there are many among its... | |
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