 These familiar flowers, these well-remembered bird-notes, this sky with its fitful brightness, these furrowed and grassy fields, each with a sort of personality given to it by the capricious hedgerows — such things as these are the mother tongue of...  Novels [of George Eliot] - Page 23by George Eliot - 1870Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 1860 - 598 pages
...furrowed and grassy fields, each with a sort of personality given to it by the capricious hedgerows—such things as these are the mother tongue of our imagination,...the grass in the far-off years, which still live in as, and transform our perception into love." WINTER TIME. " Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair... | |
 | 1860 - 660 pages
...fitful brightness, these furrowed and grassy fields, each with a sort of personality given to it by the capricious hedgerows — such things as these...left behind them. Our delight in the sunshine on the deep bladed grass to-day, might be no more than the faint perception of wearied souls, if it were not... | |
 | George Eliot - Fiction - 1860 - 384 pages
...furrowed and grassy fields, each with a sort of personality given to it by the capricious hedgerows—such things as these are the mother tongue of our imagination,...fleeting hours of our childhood left behind them. 0ur delight in the sunshine on the deepbladed grass to-day, might be no more than the faint perception... | |
 | English literature - 1866 - 566 pages
...-such things as these are tho mother tongue of our imagination, the language that is laden with all tho subtle inextricable associations the fleeting hours...wearied souls, if it were not for the sunshine and tho gras* in the far-off jears, which still live in us, and transform our perception into love." It... | |
 | Henry H. Lancaster - English literature - 1876 - 512 pages
...fitful brightness, these furrowed and grassy fields, each with a sort of personality given to it by the capricious hedgerows, — such things as these...grass in the far-off years, which still live in us, aiid transform our perception into love." It ia not too much to say, that from few novelists in the... | |
 | George Eliot - 1877 - 494 pages
...fitful brightness, these furrowed and grassy fields, each with a sort of personality given to it by the capricious hedgerows — such things as these...it were not for the sunshine and the grass in the far-oif years, which still live in us, and transform our perception into love. CHAPTER VI. THE AUNTS... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1881 - 634 pages
...fitful brightness, these furrowed and grassy fields, each with a sort of personality given to it by the capricious hedgerows — such things as these...fleeting hours of our childhood left behind them. And so Maggie Tulliver, when she read about Christiana passing " the river over which there is no bridge,"... | |
 | George Eliot - 1883 - 850 pages
...fitful brightness, these furrowed and grassy fields, each with a sort of personality given to it by the capricious hedgerows— such things as these are...Our delight in the sunshine on the deep-bladed grass to day might be no more than the faint perception of wearied souls, if it were not for the sunshine... | |
 | Lay preaching - 1886 - 296 pages
...of personality given to it by the capricious hedge-rows—such things as these are the mothertongue of our imagination, the language that is laden with...left behind them. Our delight in the sunshine on the deep bladed grass to-day might be no more than the faint perception of wearied souls, if it were not... | |
 | George Eliot - 1887 - 512 pages
...fitful brightness, these furrowed and grassy fields, each with a sort of personality given to it by the capricious hedgerows — such things as these...fleeting hours of our childhood left behind them, v Our delight in the sunshine on the deep-bladed grass to-day, might be no more than the faint perception... | |
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