 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 - 1900 - 320 pages
...corn-lauds, 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 tinsoftened by long corridors. Under such circumstances, there are many among its myriads of souls... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter, William Tenney Brewster - 1904 - 504 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 - 1908 - 422 pages
...cornlands, 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...needed an emphatic belief: life in this unpleasurable shape^demanding some solution even to unspeculative minds; just as you inquire into the [ 35 ] stuffing... | |
 | George Eliot - 1911 - 520 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...demanding some solution even to unspeculative minds ;jjust as you inquire into the stuffing of your couch when anything galls you there, whereas eider-down... | |
 | George Eliot - 1914 - 598 pages
...where the rainy days look dreary. This wide national life is based en- 10 tirely on emphasis, — the emphasis of want, which urges it into all the activities...circumstances, there are many among its myriads of souls 15 who have absolutely needed an emphatic belief, life in this unpleasurable shape demanding some solution... | |
 | George Eliot - 1914 - 600 pages
...where the rainy days look dreary. This wide national life is based en- 10 tirely on emphasis, — the emphasis of want, which urges it into all the activities...a chill, uncarpeted fashion, amidst family discord unsof tened by long corridors. Under such circumstances, there are many among its myriads of souls... | |
 | Harry Morgan Ayres, Frederick Morgan Padelford - 1924 - 942 pages
...corn-lands, where the rainy days look dreary. This wide national life is based entirely on emphasis — the nswer, nor theyr eccho ring. But let stil Silence...assurance rayne, And tymely Sleep, when it is tyme to amid family discord unsoftened by long corridors. Under such circumstances, there are many among its... | |
 | George Eliot - 1916 - 520 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...absolutely needed an emphatic belief : life in this unpleasurahle shape demanding some solution even to unspeculative minds ; just as you inquire into... | |
 | Raymond Williams - 1975 - 356 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...for the maintenance of good society and light irony. . . . This striking paragraph from The Mill on the Floss is at once the problem and the response. The... | |
 | Harold James Dyos - 1982 - 284 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...necessary for the maintenance of good society and light irony.7 We cannot fail to notice in passing that this kind of connection is one that can be made even... | |
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