 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.  Gems - Pagina 511897 - 167 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | 1926 - 538 pagine
...(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,...of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity." HAHMATOFEBOS. /CHENEY (cli. 100, 135. 142. 177).— The folio*\J ing references... | |
 | 1872 - 796 pagine
...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 - 444 pagine
...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 - 864 pagine
...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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1873 - 826 pagine
...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...quickest of us walk about well-wadded with stupidity." — Vol. i., ' P- 35 «• " Character is not cut in marble — it is not something solid and unalterable.... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1873 - 432 pagine
...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...of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity. However, Dorothea was crying, and if she had been required to state the... | |
 | George Eliot, Alexander Main - 1873 - 444 pagine
...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...of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity. To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1873 - 308 pagine
...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...of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity. However, Dorothea was crying, and if she had been required to state the... | |
 | 1873 - 590 pagine
...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 pagine
...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...of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity." Had George Eliot been gifted with faith as with reason, she could not... | |
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