 A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills : to know that high initiation, she must often tread where it is hard to...  George Eliot and Thomas Hardy: A Contrast - Page 73by Lina Wright Berle - 1917 - 174 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Eliot - Domestic fiction - 1866 - 200 pages
...not to be had without paying a heavy price for it, such as we must pay for all that is greatly good. A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm...she wills : to know that high initiation, she must often tread where it is hard to tread, and feel the chill air, and watch through darkness. It is not... | |
 | George Eliot - 1867 - 446 pages
...not to be had without paying a heavy price for it, such as we must pay for all that is greatly good. A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm...she wills : to know that high initiation, she must often tread where it is hard to tread, and feel the chill air, and watch through darkness. It is not... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1868 - 548 pages
...not to be had without paying a heavy price for it, such as we must pay for all that is greatly good. A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm...she wills : to know that high initiation, she must often tread where it is hard to tread, and feel the chill air, and watch through darkness. It is not... | |
 | George Eliot - 1869 - 568 pages
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 | George Eliot, Alexander Main - Aphorisms and apothegms in literature - 1873 - 444 pages
...our life have changed less than our manners ; we wrestle with the old sorrows, but more decorously. A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm...she wills : to know that high initiation, she must often tread where it is hard to tread, and feel the chill air, and watch through darkness. It is not... | |
 | George Eliot - 1875 - 460 pages
...our life have changed less than our manners ; we wrestle with the old sorrows, but more decorously. A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm...she wills : to know that high initiation, she must often tread where it is hard to tread, and feel the chill air, and watch through darkness. It is not... | |
 | George Eliot - 1878 - 378 pages
...not to be had without paying a heavy price for it, such as we must pay for all that is greatly good. A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm...she wills : to know that high initiation, she |must often tread where it is hard to tread, and feel lithe chill air, and watch through darkness. It is... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Women - 1882 - 448 pages
...as there are races. To the English woman it is a duty, to the French woman a propriety. — Tainc. A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm...she wills : to know that high initiation, she must often tread where it is hard to tread, and feel the chill air, and watch through darkness. — George... | |
 | George Eliot - 1883 - 802 pages
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 | George Willis Cooke - Biography & Autobiography - 1883 - 470 pages
...she accepted the distrust of friends- and the coldness of the world which her marriage brought her. A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm...partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had when and how she will : to know that high initiation, she must often tread where it is hard to tread,... | |
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