 ... a creature full of eager, passionate longings for all that was beautiful and glad ; thirsty for all knowledge; with an ear straining after dreamy music that died away and would not come near to her ; with a blind, unconscious yearning for something...  Bygone Warwickshire - Pàgina 268editat per - 1893 - 284 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1860 - 834 pàgines
...for all knowledge; with an ear straining after dreamy music that died away and would not come near to her ; with a blind, unconscious yearning for something...mysterious life, and give her soul a sense of home in it." She has recourse to books— again of a strange kind for such a reader. Virgil, Euclid, and Aldrich's... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - 1860 - 606 pàgines
...all knowledge, with an ear streaming after dreamy music that died away, and would not come near to her — with a blind, unconscious yearning for something...mysterious life, and give her soul a sense of home in it." She has recourse to books. She meets with a well-worn, antiquated copy of " The Imitation of Christ,"... | |
 | George Eliot - 1860 - 478 pàgines
...straining after dreamy music that died away and would not come near to her ; with a blind, imconscious yearning for something that would link together the...mysterious life, and give her soul a sense of home in it. No wonder, when there is this contrast between the outward and the inward, that painful collisions... | |
 | George Eliot - 1860 - 476 pàgines
...all knowledge; with an ear straining after dreamy music that died away and "would not come near to her; with a blind, unconscious yearning for something that would link together the wonderful imTheir mother came in now, and Maggie rushed away, that her burst of tears, which she felt must come,... | |
 | 1866 - 566 pàgines
...for knowledge ; with an ear straining after dreamy music that died away and would not come near to her ; with a blind unconscious yearning for something...that would link together the wonderful impressions of thi< mysterious life, and give her soul a sense of home in it." Her childhood was happy, but her youth... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1867 - 628 pàgines
...all knowledge ; with an ear straining after dreamy music that died away and would not come near to her; with a blind, unconscious yearning for something...mysterious life, and give her soul a sense of home in it. No wonder, when there is this contrast between the outward and the inward, that painful collisions... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1863 - 550 pàgines
...straining after dreamy ' music that died away, and would not come near her,' and her vague longings for ' something that would link together the ' wonderful impressions of this mysterious life, and give the soul ' a sense of home in it.' Nothing is more natural than that brother and sister should misunderstand... | |
 | George Eliot - 1870 - 816 pàgines
...for all knowledge; with an ear straining after dreamy music that died away and would not come near to her ; with a blind, unconscious yearning for something...mysterious life, and give her soul a sense of home in it. No wonder, when there is this contrast between the outward and the inward, that painful collisions... | |
 | George Eliot, Alexander Main - 1873 - 444 pàgines
...all knowledge ; with an ear straining after dreamy music that died away and would not come near to her ; with a blind unconscious yearning for something...mysterious life, and give her soul a sense of home in it. No wonder, when there is this contrast between the outward and the inward, that painful collisions... | |
 | George Eliot - 1875 - 460 pàgines
...all knowledge ; with an ear straining after dreamy music that died away and would not come near to her ; with a blind unconscious yearning for something...mysterious life, and give her soul a sense of home in it. No wonder, when there is this contrast between the outward and the inward, that painful collisions... | |
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