 | George Eliot - Domestic fiction - 1866 - 200 pages
...somehow or other, Felix was going to reproach her. "I wonder," he went on, still looking at her, f whether the subtle measuring of forces will ever come...one current with all the great aims of his life." Esther's eyes got hot and smarting. It was no use trying to be dignified. She had turned away her head,... | |
 | George Eliot - 1867 - 446 pages
...somehow or other, Felix was going to reproach her. " I wonder," he went on, still looking at her, " whether the subtle measuring of forces will ever come...one current with all the great aims of his life." Esther's eyes got hot and smarting. It was no -use trying to be dignified. She had turned away her... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1868 - 548 pages
...that, somehow or other, Felix was going to reproach her. " I wonder," he went on, still looking at her, "whether the subtle measuring of forces will ever...one current with all the great aims of his life." Esther's eyes got hot and smarting. It was no use trying to be dignified. She had turned away her head,... | |
 | George Eliot - 1869 - 568 pages
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 | George Eliot, Alexander Main - Aphorisms and apothegms in literature - 1873 - 444 pages
...that you should add one more to the women who hinder men's lives from having any nobleness in them. I wonder whether the subtle measuring of forces will...in one current with all the great aims of his life. Felix. — I don't measure my force by the negations in me, and think my soul must be a mighty one... | |
 | George Eliot - 1875 - 460 pages
...that you should add one more to the women who hinder^ men's lives from having any nobleness in them. I wonder whether the subtle measuring of forces will...in one current with all the great aims of his life. | Felix. — I don't measure my force by. the negations in me, and think my soul must be a mighty one... | |
 | George Eliot - Novelists, English - 1878 - 378 pages
..."whether the subtle measuring of forces will ever come to measuring the force there would be in ono beautiful woman whose mind was as noble as her face...one current with all the great aims of his life." Esther's eyes got hot and smarting. It was no use trying to be dignified. She had turned away her head,... | |
 | Richard Heber Newton - Social Science - 1880 - 334 pages
...suggested by the type rather than by the image. ... 'I wonder,' he went on, still looking at her, ' whether the subtle measuring of forces will ever come...one current with all the great aims of his life?' "—Felix Holt, ii. 3. A man's love for a woman may divert his energies from the great aims which are... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Women - 1882 - 448 pages
...force there would be in one beautiful woman whose mind was as noble as her face was beautiful, — jwho made a man's passion for her rush in one current with all the great aims of his life. — George Eliot. "5 121 126 A woman ought to turn like a flash of light from a foul page, a coarse... | |
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I wonder," he went on, still looking at her, "whether the subtle measuring of forces will ever come to measuring the force there would be in one beautiful woman whose mind was as noble as her face was beautiful — who made a man's passion for her rush... 
