 Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that...  George Eliot and Thomas Hardy: A Contrast - Page 145by Lina Wright Berle - 1917 - 174 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Women - 448 pages
...is unavoidable — was past, we grew apart and tended different ways. It has been well said, that " family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature,...blends yearning and repulsion, and ties us by our heart strings to beings that jar us at every movement." This was quite true of George and myself: our... | |
 | George Eliot - Carpenters - 1859 - 524 pages
...was not from her that Adam got his well-filled brow and his expression of large-hearted intelligence. Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature,...and repulsion ; and ties us by our heartstrings to the beings that jar us at every movement. We hear a voice with the very cadence of our own uttering... | |
 | English literature - 1859 - 586 pages
...the mysteries of human character. ' Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that grot tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle,...and repulsion ; and ties us by our heartstrings to the beings that jar us at every movement. We hear a voice with the very cadence of our own uttering... | |
 | George Eliot - 1867 - 486 pages
...was not from her that Adam got his well-filled brow and his expression of large-hearted intelligence. Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature,...and repulsion ; and ties us by our heartstrings to the beings that jar us at every movement. We hear a voice with the very cadence of our own uttering... | |
 | Henry Schütz Wilson - 1873 - 430 pages
...is unavoidable — was past, we grew apart and tended different ways. It has been well said that " family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature,...heart-strings to beings that jar us at every movement." This was quite true of George and myself; our natures were antipathetic. I had a strong latent affection... | |
 | George Eliot, Alexander Main - Aphorisms and apothegms in literature - 1873 - 444 pages
...say nothing; just as a. national language may be instinct with poetry unfelt by the lips that use it. Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature,...and repulsion ; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement. We hear a voice with the very cadence of our own uttering... | |
 | George Eliot - 1875 - 460 pages
...say nothing ; just as a national language may be instinct with poetry unfelt by the lips that use it. Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature,...and repulsion ; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement. We hear a voice with -the very cadence of our own uttering... | |
 | George Eliot - 1878 - 452 pages
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 | Frederick Charles Woodhouse - Devotional literature - 1881 - 392 pages
...often a deep sadness in it. Nature links us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtle web of our brains ; blends yearning and repulsion, and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every moment. Thus we hear a voice, with the very cadence of our own, uttering... | |
 | George Eliot - 1883 - 742 pages
...was not from her that Adam got his well-filled brow and his expression of large-hearted intelligence. Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature,...and repulsion, and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement. \Ve hear a voice with the very cadence of our own uttering... | |
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