 Ideas are often poor ghosts ; our sun-filled eyes cannot discern them ; they pass athwart us in thin vapor, and cannot make themselves felt. But sometimes they are made flesh, they breathe upon us with warm breath, they touch us with soft responsive hands,...  George Eliot and the Politics of National Inheritance - Page 11by Bernard Semmel - 1994 - 176 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Scotland - 1857 - 922 pages
...tiny seed is quickened, and bursts forth into tall stem and broad leaf, and glowing tasselled flower. Ideas are often poor ghosts ; our sun-filled eyes cannot discern them ; they pass athwart us in thin vapour, and cannot make themselves felt. But sometimes they are made flesh ; they breathe upon us with... | |
 | American periodicals - 1857 - 850 pages
...tiny seed is quickened, and bursts forth into tall stem and broad leaf, and glowing taaselled flower. Ideas are often poor ghosts ; our sun-filled eyes...vapor, and cannot make themselves felt. But sometimes they are made flesh ; they breathe upon us with warm breath, they touch us with soft respon«ve hands,... | |
 | Scotland - 1857 - 992 pages
...tiny seed is quickened, and bursts forth into tall stein and broad leaf, and glowing tasselled flower. Ideas are often poor ghosts; our sun-filled eyes cannot discern them ; they pas athwart us in thin vapour, and cannot make themselves felt But some468 460 times they are made... | |
 | George Eliot - English fiction - 1858 - 196 pages
...tiny seed is quickened, and bursts forth into tall stem and broad leaf, and glowing tasselled flower. Ideas are often poor ghosts ; our sun-filled eyes...vapor, and cannot make themselves felt. But sometimes they are made flesh ; they breathe upon us with warm breath, they touch us with soft responsive hands,... | |
 | George Eliot - Clergy - 1858 - 398 pages
...tiny seed is quickened, and bursts forth into tall stem and broad leaf, and glowing tasselled flower. Ideas are often poor ghosts ; our sun-filled eyes cannot discern them ; they pass athwart us in thin vapour, and cannot make themselves felt. But sometimes they are made flesh ; they breathe upon us with... | |
 | 1858 - 588 pages
...seed is quickened, and bursts forth into tall stem and broad leaf, and glowing, tasseled flower. Idea* are often poor ghosts ; our sun-filled eyes cannot discern them ; they pass athwart us in thin vapour, and cannot make themselves felt. But sometimes they breathe upon us with warm breath, they... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1913 - 872 pages
...tiny seed is quickened, i , I bursts forth into tall stem and broad leaf, and glowing tasseled flower. Ideas are often poor ghosts ; our sunfilled eyes cannot discern them ; they pass athwart us in thin vapour, and cannot make themselves felt. But sometimes they are made flesh; they breathe upon us with... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - Commonplace-books - 1863 - 254 pages
...buried seed is quickened, and burst forth into tall stem and broad leaf, and glowing tasselled flower. Ideas are often poor ghosts ; our sunfilled eyes cannot...vapor, and cannot make themselves felt. But sometimes they are made flesh ; they bieathe upon us with warm breath, they touch us with soft responsive hands,... | |
 | Universalism - 1867 - 978 pages
...tiny seed is quickened, and bursts forth into tall stem and broad leaf, and glowing tasselled flower. Ideas are often poor ghosts ; our sun-filled eyes...discern them ; they pass athwart us in thin vapor, and eannot make themselves felt. But sometimes they are made flesh ; they breathe upon us with warm breath... | |
 | 1869 - 878 pages
...tiny seed is quickened, and bursts forth into tall stem, and broad leaf, and glowing tasseled flower. Ideas are often poor ghosts ; our sun-filled eyes...vapor, and cannot make themselves felt. But sometimes they are made of flesh ; they touch us with soft, responsive hands ; they look at us with sad, sincere... | |
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