... gate and fences against the depths of the bordering wood ; and the stray hovel, its old, old thatch full of mossy hills and valleys with wondrous modulations of light and shadow such as we travel far to see in later life, and see larger, but not more... Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life - Page 140by George Eliot - 1894Full view - About this book
| George Willis Cooke - Novelists, English - 1883 - 454 pages
...travel far to see in later life, and see larger, Lot not more beantiful. These are the things that made the gamut of joy in landscape to midland-bred souls...standing between their father's knees while he drove leisurely.1 It is nature as affecting man, and man as transformed into a creature of feeling and passion... | |
| John Scott Clark - English prose literature - 1905 - 924 pages
...as she herself says of those aspects of scenery, ' These are the things which make the gamut of joy to midland-bred souls — the things they toddled...between their father's knees while he drove leisurely.' . . . The art of depicting scenery is rarely found in a very eminent degree, and certainly seldom in... | |
| George Eliot - 1900 - 464 pages
...irrepressible, hopefulness. CHAPTER XII. " He had more low on ate dtetaffe Than Oervelt knew." CHACCZR. Tii F ride to Stone Court, which Fred and Rosamond took...we have seen, was not a parish of muddy lanes and pooi tenants ; and it was into Lowick parish that Fred and Rosamond entered after a couple of miles'... | |
| George Eliot - 1900 - 254 pages
...beautiful. These are the things that make the gamut of joy in landscape to midland-bred souls—the things they toddled among, or perhaps learned by heart...we have seen, was not a parish of muddy lanes and pooi tenants; and it was into Lowick parish that Fred and Rosa* mond entered after a couple of miles'... | |
| Henry Houston Bonnell - English fiction - 1902 - 486 pages
...bordering wood ; and the stray hovel, its old, old thatch full of mossy hills and valleys, with wuudrous modulations of light and shadow, such as we travel...between their father's knees while he drove leisurely. It is not too much to say that the possession of this faculty made George Eliot a fine critic. I use... | |
| George Eliot - 1908 - 426 pages
...burdock ; the huddled roofs and ricks of the homestead without a traceable way of approach ; the grey gate and fences against the depths of the bordering...But the road, even the byroad, was excellent; for [ 146 ] Lowick, as we have seen, was not a parish of muddy lanes and poor tenants; and it was into... | |
| George Eliot - 1908 - 420 pages
...burdock ; the huddled roofs and ricks of the homestead without a traceable way of approach ; the grey gate and fences against the depths of the bordering...But the road, even the byroad, was excellent; for [ 146 ] Lowick, as we have seen, was not a parish of muddy lanes and poor tenants ; and it was into... | |
| George Eliot - 1913 - 284 pages
...approach; the gray gate and fences against the depths of the bordering wood; and the stray hovel, and its old, old thatch full of mossy hills and valleys,...between their father's knees while he drove leisurely." Or perhaps it is Raveloe she wishes you to see: "Raveloe was a village where many of the old echoes... | |
| Electronic journals - 1913 - 746 pages
...approach; the gray gate and fences against the depths of the bordering wood; and the stray hovel, and its old, old thatch full of mossy hills and valleys,...between their father's knees while he drove leisurely. Or perhaps it is Raveloe she wishes you to see: Raveloe was a village where many of the old echoes... | |
| George Eliot, Amy Cruse - Literary Criticism - 1913 - 298 pages
...stands among those familiar " meadows and pastures " with their hedgerows, trees, and flowers which are " the things that make the gamut of joy in landscape to Midland-bred souls." " Middlemarch " also contains an excellent portrait of George Eliot's father in his later years in... | |
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