| 1857 - 878 pągines
...men of complexions more or less muddy, whose conversation is more or less bald and disjointed. Yet these commonplace people — many of them — bear...joys; their hearts have perhaps gone out towards their firet-born, and they have mourned over the irreclaimable dead. Nay, is VOL. LXXXL — NO. CCCCXCVL... | |
| Frederic William Farrar - 1833 - 142 pągines
...simply men of complexions more or less muddy, whose conversation is more or less bald or disjointed. Yet these commonplace people, many of them, bear a conscience,...and they have mourned over the irreclaimable dead. Nay, is there not a pathos in their very insignificance, in our comparison of their dim and narrow... | |
| 1857 - 818 pągines
...men of complexions more or less muddy, whose convereation is more or less bald and disjointed. Yet these commonplace people — many of them — bear...; their hearts have perhaps gone out towards their first born, and they have mourned over the irreclaimable dead. Nay, is VOL. LXXXr. 11 their dim and... | |
| 1857 - 804 pągines
...complexions more or less muddy, whoso conversation is more or less bald and disjointed. Yet these commouplace people — many of them — bear a conscience, and...joys; their hearts have perhaps gone out towards their first born, and they have mourned over the irreclaimable dead. Nay, is VOL. LXXXL 11 there not a pathos... | |
| 1902 - 902 pągines
...thought and experience portrayed! Yet, in George Eliot's own words, "these commonplace people have a conscience, and have felt the sublime prompting to do the painful right. " They take on dignity from their moral struggle, whether the struggle ends in victory or defeat. By an infinite... | |
| George Eliot - 1858 - 382 pągines
...men of complexions more or less muddy, whose conversation is more or less bald and disjointed. Yet these commonplace people — many of them — bear...and they have mourned over the irreclaimable dead. Nay, is there not a pathos in their very insignificance,- — in our comparison of their dim and narrow... | |
| George Eliot - 1858 - 196 pągines
...men of complexions more or less muddy, whose conversation is more or less bald and disjointed. Yet these commonplace people — many of them — bear a conscience, and have felt the tuhlime prompting to do the painful right'; they have their unspoken sorrows, and their tacred joys... | |
| 1859 - 824 pągines
...men of complexions more or leas muddy, whose conversation is more or less bald and disjointed. Yet these commonplace people — many of them — bear...prompting to do the painful right; they have their unspokeifsorrows, and their sacrtd joys; their hea*s have perhaps gone out towards their first-born,... | |
| 1859 - 1036 pągines
...disjointed. Yet these commonplace people — many of them — hear a conscience, and have felt the suhlime prompting to do the painful right ; they have their...; their hearts have perhaps gone out towards their first-horn, and they have mourned over the irreclaimahle dead. Nay, is there not a pathos in their... | |
| 1859 - 662 pągines
...men of complexions more or less muddy, whose conversation is more or less bald and disjointed. Yet these common-place people — many of them — bear...sublime prompting to do the painful right ; they have thcir unspoken sorrows, and thcir sacred joys ; thcir hearts have perhaps gone out towards their first-born,... | |
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