The mill on the FlossClassic Books, 1909 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Aunt Glegg Aunt Pullet beautiful better boat Bob's brother conscious cousin cribbage Deane Deane's dear deep notes Dodson dread egoism everything eyes father feeling Fibb's Floss friends Gainsborough Garum GEORGE ELIOT girl give glance hand happiness heart hope hurried Jakin Kenn knew lady look Lucy Lucy's Maggie felt Magsie marriage marry Mill mind Miss Tulliver Morton Hall mother Mumps muslin nature never niver Ogg's once pain passion perhaps Philip Wakem pity poor Red Deeps river River Trent round seated seemed sense silent sister smiling soon sort speak Stephen Guest strong sudden sure talk tell there's thing thought told Tom's tone trembling Tulliver's turned Uncle voice walked wife wish words world's wife young
Populaire passages
Pagina 293 - Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine.
Pagina 224 - Philip — you play the accompaniment," said Lucy, " and then I can go on with my work. You will like to play, shan't you]" she added, with a pretty inquiring look, anxious, as usual, lest she should have proposed what was not pleasant to another ; but with yearnings towards her unfinished embroidery. Philip had brightened at the proposition, for there is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music — that does not make a man sing or play the better...
Pagina 349 - The great problem of the shifting relation between passion and duty is clear to no man who is capable of apprehending it: the question whether the moment has come in which a man has fallen below the possibility of a renunciation that will carry any efficacy, and must accept the sway of a passion against which he had struggled as a trespass, is one for which we have no master key that will fit all cases.
Pagina 350 - The casuists have become a byword of reproach; but their perverted spirit of minute discrimination was the shadow of a truth to which eyes and hearts are too often fatally sealed — the truth, that moral judgments must remain false and hollow, unless they are checked and enlightened by a perpetual reference to the special circumstances that mark the individual lot.
Pagina 207 - I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out. I f this goes on much longer, the bonds of society will be dissolved." " Well, it will not go on much longer," said Lucy, laughing, " for the bazaar is to take place on Monday week.
Pagina 18 - Uncles and aunts paid only short visits now ; of course, they could not stay to meals, and the constraint caused by Mr. Tulliver's savage silence, which seemed to add to the hollow resonance of the bare uncarpeted room when the aunts were talking, heightened the unpleasantness of these family visits on all sides, and tended to make them rare. As for other acquaintances — there is a chill air...
Pagina 55 - I don't think any of the strongest effects our natures are susceptible of can ever be explained. We can neither detect the process by which they are arrived at, nor the mode in which they act on us. The greatest of painters only once painted a mysteriously divine child ; he couldn't have told how he did it, and we can't tell
Pagina 8 - The right thing was to correct them severely, if they were other than a credit to the family, but still not to alienate from them the smallest rightful share in the family shoebuckles and other property. A conspicuous quality in the Dodson character was its genuineness; its vices and virtues alike were phases of a proud honest egoism, which had a hearty dislike to whatever made against its own credit and interest, and would be frankly hard of speech to inconvenient "kin...
Pagina 97 - I did n't finish the book," said Maggie. "As soon as I came to the blond-haired young lady reading hi the park, I shut it up, and determined to read no further. I foresaw that that light-complexioned girl would win away all the love from Corinne and make her miserable. I'm determined to read no more books where the blond-haired women carry away all the happiness.
Pagina 51 - It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.