 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...  Novels [of George Eliot] - Page 23by George Eliot - 1870Full view - About this book
 | 1860 - 600 pages
...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...that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known ? " The wood I walk in on this mild May day, with the young yellow-brown... | |
 | George Eliot - Fiction - 1860 - 382 pages
...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...that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known ? The wood I walk in on this mild May day, with the young yellow-brown foliage... | |
 | George Eliot - Brothers and sisters - 1860 - 478 pages
...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...crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where every thing is known, and loved because it is known ? The wood I walk in on this mild May day, with... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1860 - 606 pages
...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...crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where every thing is known, and loved because it is known ? " The wood I walk in on this mild May-day, with... | |
 | 1860 - 656 pages
...— if it were not the earth where the same flowers uome up again every spring that we used to guther with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves...that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known ? "The wood I walk in on this mild May day, with the young yellow-brown foliage... | |
 | George Eliot - Fiction - 1860 - 384 pages
...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...tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass—the same hips and haws on the autumn hedgerows—the same redbreasts that we used to call "... | |
 | English literature - 1860 - 598 pages
...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...tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass—the same hips aud haws on the autumn hedgerows—the same redbreasts that we used to call '... | |
 | George Eliot - Brothers and sisters - 1860 - 476 pages
...as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass—the same hips and haws on the autumn hedgerows—the same redbreasts that we used to call " God's birds,"...crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where every thing is known, and loved because it is known ? The wood I walk in on this mild May day, with... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1867 - 628 pages
...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...that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known ? The wood I walk in on this mild May day, with the young yellow-brown foliage... | |
 | George Eliot, Alexander Main - Aphorisms and apothegms in literature - 1873 - 444 pages
...history. — o — 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...that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known ? grove of tropic palms, what strange ferns or splendid broad-petalled blossoms,... | |
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