 | George Eliot - Brothers and sisters - 1860 - 478 pages
...in believing that the thoughts and loves of these first years would always make part of their lives. We could never have loved the earth so well if we...hedgerows — the same redbreasts that we used to call " God's birds," because they did no harm to the precious crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony... | |
 | 1860 - 600 pages
...in believing that the thoughts and loves of these first years would always make part of their lives. We could never have loved the earth so well if we...hedgerows — the same redbreasts that we used to call ' God's birds,' because they did no harm to the precious crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1860 - 606 pages
...in believing that the thoughts and loves of these first years would always make part of their lives. We could never have loved the earth so well if we...hedgerows — the same redbreasts that we used to call ' God's birds,' because they did no harm to the precious crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony... | |
 | George Eliot - Brothers and sisters - 1860 - 384 pages
...in believing that the thoughts and loves of these first years would always make part of their lives. We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it,—if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather... | |
 | English literature - 1860 - 598 pages
...in believing that the thoughts and loves of these first years would always make part of their lives. We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it,—if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather... | |
 | George Eliot - Brothers and sisters - 1860 - 476 pages
...believing that the thoughts and'loves of these first years would always make part of their lives. We eould never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it—if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather... | |
 | 1860 - 656 pages
...in believing that the thoughts and loves of these flrst years would always make part of their lives. We could never have loved the earth so well if we had hart no childhood in it, — if it were not the earth where the same flowers uome up again every spring... | |
 | English literature - 1866 - 566 pages
...first years would always make part of their lives. We could never have loved the earth so well ift we had had no childhood in it, — if it were not...hedgerows — the same red-breasts that we used to call " God's birds," because they did no harm to the precious crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1867 - 628 pages
...in believing that the thoughts and loves of these first years would always make part of their lives. We could never have loved the earth so well if we...hedgerows — the same redbreasts that we used to call " God's birds," because they did no harm to the precious crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony... | |
 | George Eliot - 1870 - 816 pages
...and loves of these first years would always make part of their lives. We could never have loved th* earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, — if it " // ivas one rf fh'h' Ji.tjty tnirnings.* were not the earth where the same flowers come up again... | |
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, — if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass — the... 
