I understand the difficulty there is in your vindicating yourself. And that all this should have come to you who had meant to lead a higher life than the common, and to find out better ways I cannot bear to rest in this as unchangeable. Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life - Стр. 236авторы: George Eliot - 1872Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| Mary Ann Evans - 1873 - Страниц: 308
...to you who had meant to lead a higher life than the common, and to find out better ways—I can not bear to rest in this as unchangeable. I know you meant...There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that—to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail." "Yes," said Lydgate, feeling that... | |
| George Eliot, Alexander Main - 1873 - Страниц: 444
...may seem idle and weak because they are growing. We should be very patient with each other, I think. There is no sorrow I have thought more about than...what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail. — o — • Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough... | |
| George Eliot - 1875 - Страниц: 460
...idle and weak because they are growing. We should be very patient with each other, I think. — o — There is no sorrow I have thought more about than...what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail. — o — Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough... | |
| 1881 - Страниц: 410
...Daniel Deronda. 40. " Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest." — Romola. 41. " There is no sorrow I have thought more about than...what is great, and try to reach it and yet to fail." — Middfcmarch. 42. *' A kind Providence furnishes the limpest personality with a little gum or starch... | |
| Annie S. Swan - 1884 - Страниц: 202
...Dorothea's lips, and from that moment each was at home with the other. CHAPTEE III. MARY FENWICK. " There is no sorrow I have thought more about than...what is great and try to reach it, and yet to fail." —GEORGE ELIOT. 'OST people were disappointed in Robert Western. He was not a brilliant conversationalist,... | |
| Susan Coolidge - 1890 - Страниц: 382
...and then they would shine of course. HORACE BUSHNELL. THERE is no sorrow I have thought about more than that, to love what is great and, try to reach it, and yet to fail. GEORGE ELIOT. O PRAISE the Lord, for it is a. good thing to sing praises unto our God; yea, a joyful... | |
| Lilian Whiting - 1901 - Страниц: 432
...come to you who had meant to lead a higher life than the common, and to find out better ways. . . . There is no sorrow I have thought more about than...what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.' " In all that vast and vivid dramatization of life so impressively presented in the novels of George... | |
| Tryon Edwards - 1908 - Страниц: 774
...attain to what thou art not, for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest. — Quartes. — George Eliot. The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for... | |
| Tryon Edwards - 1908 - Страниц: 788
...attain to what thou art not, for where thon hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest. — Quartes. evenge is a common — George Eliot. The heart is a small thing, but desireth créât mattere. It is not sufficient for... | |
| Lilian Whiting - 1917 - Страниц: 414
...to Lydgate, in the great novel of MidcUemarch ; and the heroine adds: " There is no sorrow I h^ive thought more about than that — to love what is great and try to reach it and then fail." Lord Selkirk took this experience greatly to heart. However much to be regretted is the... | |
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