 Depend upon it, you would gain unspeakably if you would learn with me to see some of the poetry and the pathos, the tragedy and the comedy, lying in the experience of a human soul that looks out through dull grey eyes, and that speaks in a voice of quite...  The Universal review - Page 2081859Full view - About this book
 | Scotland - 1857 - 878 pages
...share I Depend upon it, my dear lady, you would gain unspeakably if you would learn with me to see some of the poetry and the pathos, the tragedy and...experience of a human soul that looks out through dull {*rey eyes^ and that speaks in a voice of quite ordinary tones. In that case, I should have no fear... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - Christian life - 1833 - 142 pages
...of that human nature which they share ? Depend upon it, we should gain unspeakably if we would learn some of the poetry and the pathos, the tragedy and...lying in the experience of a human soul, that looks at us through dull eyes, and that speaks in quite ordinary tones." This, then — this earthly insignificance... | |
 | England - 1857 - 820 pages
...it, my dear lady, yon would gain unspeakably if yon would lenrn with me to see some of the pt>etry and the pathos, the tragedy and the comedy, lying...ordinary tones. In that case I should have no fear of yonr not caring to know what farther befell the Rev. Amos Barton, or of yonr thinking the homely details... | |
 | George Eliot - English fiction - 1858 - 196 pages
...trn^erly and the comedy, lvins; in the experience of the human soul that looks out through dull gray eyes, and that speaks in> a voice of quite ordinary tones. In thaicase, I should have no fear of your not carfarther befell the Rev. of your thinking the, ing to... | |
 | Scotland - 1859 - 1036 pages
...which they share ? " Depend upon it, you would gain unspeakalily if you would learn with me to see some of the poetry and the pathos, the tragedy and...and that speaks in a voice of quite ordinary tones." Bat the real secret of Miss Austen's success lies in her having the exquisite and rare gift of dramatic... | |
 | England - 1859 - 826 pages
...nature which they share ? " Depend upon it, you would gain unspeakably if you would learn with me to see some of the poetry and the pathos, the tragedy and...through dull grey eyes, and that speaks in a voice of qmte ordinary tones." But the real secret of Miss Austen's success lies in her having the exquisite... | |
 | Literature - 1920 - 922 pages
..."Amos Barton" who said: Depend upon it, you would gain unspeakably if you would learn with me to see some of the poetry and the pathos, the tragedy and...and that speaks in a voice of quite ordinary tones. Seldom has there been a stronger contrast in this question of material than that which existed between... | |
 | George Eliot, Alexander Main - Aphorisms and apothegms in literature - 1873 - 444 pages
...nature which they share ? Depend upon it, you would gain unspeakably if you would learn with me to see some of the poetry and the pathos, the tragedy and...and that speaks in a voice of quite ordinary tones. I have all my life had a sympathy for mongrel ungainly dogs, who are nobody's pets ; and I would rather... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1920 - 596 pages
...gain unspeakably if you would learn with me to see some of the poetry and the pathos, the tragedy and comedy, lying in the experience of a human soul that looks out through dull gray eyes and speaks in a voice of quite ordinary tones." Mary Ann Evans discovered the gold of fun... | |
 | George Eliot - 1875 - 460 pages
...nature which they share ? Depend upon it, you would gain unspeakably if you would learn with me to see some of the poetry and the pathos, the tragedy and...and that speaks in a voice of quite ordinary tones. I have all my life had a sympathy for mongrel ungainly dogs, who are nobody's pets ; and I would rather... | |
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