 | George Eliot - City and town life - 1871 - 432 pages
...afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings. We belated historians must not linger after his example ; and if we did...if delivered from a camp-stool in a parrot-house. I at least have so much to do in unravelling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1873 - 308 pages
...afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings. We belated historians must not linger after his example; and if we did so,...if delivered from a camp-stool in a parrot-house. I, at least, have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1873 - 432 pages
...afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter erenings. We belated historians must not linger after his example ; and if we did...if delivered from a camp-stool in a parrot-house. I at least have so much to do in unravelling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and... | |
 | George Eliot, Alexander Main - Aphorisms and apothegms in literature - 1873 - 444 pages
...afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings. We belated historians must not linger after his example ; and if we did...if delivered from a camp-stool in a parrot-house. — 0 — There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind... | |
 | George Eliot - 1875 - 460 pages
...afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings. We belated historians must not linger after his example; and if we did so,...if delivered from a camp-stool in a parrot-house. — o — There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1874 - 454 pages
...afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings. We belated historians must not linger after his example"; and if we did...if delivered from a camp-stool in a parrot-house. I, at least, have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing 356 how they were woven... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1877 - 454 pages
...afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings. We belated historians must not linger after his example ; and if we did...if delivered from a camp-stool in a parrot-house. I, at least, have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and... | |
 | Manchester Literary Club - Literature - 1880 - 772 pages
...afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings. We belated historians must not linger after his example, and if we did so it is possible that our chat would be then as eager as if delivered from a camp stool in a parrot house.... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - Biography & Autobiography - 1883 - 470 pages
...afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings. We belated historians must not linger after his example ; and if we did...as if delivered from a campstool in a parrot-house. I. at least, have so much to do in unravelling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and... | |
 | George Eliot - 1883 - 756 pages
...spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings. We belated historians must not linger his example ; and if we did so, it is probable that...as if delivered from a campstool in a parrot-house. I at least have so much to do in unravelling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and... | |
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... ticked slowly in the winter evenings. We belated historians must not linger after his example ; and if we did so, it is probable that our chat would be thin and eager, as if delivered from a campstool in a parrot-house. 
