 The great rivercourses which have shaped the lives of men have hardly changed; and those other streams, the life-currents that ebb and flow in human hearts, pulsate to the same great needs, the same great loves and terrors. As our thought follows close...  Romola: Impressions of Theophrastus Such - Page 5by George Eliot - 1883Full view - About this book
 | SMITH - 1862 - 924 pages
...needs, the same great loves and terrors. As our thought follows close in the slow wake of the dawn, we are impressed with the broad sameness of the human...in the main headings of its history — hunger and labour, seed-time and harvest, love and death. Even if, instead of following the dim daybreak, our... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1863 - 272 pages
...needs, the same great loves and terrors. As our thought follows close in the slow wake of the dawn, we are impressed with the broad sameness of the human...imagination pauses on a certain historical spot, and awaits the fuller morning, we may see a world-famous city, which has hardly changed its outline since... | |
 | George Eliot - Domestic fiction - 1863 - 348 pages
...sameness of the human lot, which never alters in the main headings of its history — hunger and labour, seed-time and harvest, love and death. Even if, instead...imagination pauses on a certain historical spot, and awaits the fuller morning, we may see a world-famous city, which has hardly changed its outline since... | |
 | William Brighty Rands - 1869 - 346 pages
...needs, the same great loves and terrors. As our thoughts follow close in the slow wake of the dawn, we are impressed with the broad sameness of the human...alters in the main headings of its history, hunger and labour, seed-time and harvest, love and death.' Let us take to heart this thought, of the essential... | |
 | George Eliot - 1870 - 816 pages
...needs, the same great loves and terrors. As our thought follows close in the slow wake of the dawn, we are impressed with the broad sameness of the human...dim daybreak, our imagination pauses on a certain liistorical ' spot, and awaits the fuller morning, we may see a world-famous city, which has hardly... | |
 | George Eliot, Alexander Main - Aphorisms and apothegms in literature - 1873 - 444 pages
...needs, the same great loves and terrors. As our thought follows close in the slow wake of the dawn, we are impressed with the broad sameness of the human...in the main headings of its history — hunger and labour, seedtime and harvest, love and death. Even if, instead of following the dim daybreak, our imagination... | |
 | Thomas Best Woodward - Philosophy - 1874 - 294 pages
...needs, " the same great loves and terrors. As our thought " follows close in the slow wake of the dawn, we are " impressed with the broad sameness of the...the main headings of its history " — hunger and labour, seed-time and harvest, love " and death. "Even if, instead of following the dim daybreak, "... | |
 | Thomas Best Woodward - Philosophy - 1874 - 296 pages
...of the human lot, " which never alters in the main headings of its history " — hunger and labour, seed-time and harvest, love " and death. " Even if,...our imagination pauses on a certain historical spot, we 1 vide Proem to Romola. — George Eliot. " may see a world-famous city, which has hardly " changed... | |
 | 1875 - 738 pages
...; and the hand may be a little child's. As our thoughts follow close in the slow wake of the dawn, we are impressed with the broad sameness of the human...and labor, seed-time and harvest, love and death. In the man whose childhood has known caresses, there is always a fibre of memory that can be touched... | |
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