 ... armchair to the proscenium and chat with us in all the lusty ease of his fine English. But Fielding lived when the days were longer (for time, like money, is measured by our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly...  Middlemarch, by George Eliot - 251. oldalszerző: Mary Ann Evans - 1873Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1873 - 308 oldal
...our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings. We belated historians must not linger after his example;...a parrot-house. I, at least, have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I... | |
 | George Eliot, Alexander Main - 1873 - 444 oldal
...our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings. We belated historians must not linger after his example...if delivered from a camp-stool in a parrot-house. — 0 — There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1874 - 454 oldal
...our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings. We belated historians must not linger after his example";...a parrot-house. I, at least, have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing 356 how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light... | |
 | George Eliot - 1875 - 460 oldal
...our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings. We belated historians must not linger after his example;...if delivered from a camp-stool in a parrot-house. — o — There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1877 - 454 oldal
...our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings. We belated historians must not linger after his example...a parrot-house. I, at least, have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I... | |
 | Manchester Literary Club - 1880 - 772 oldal
...our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings. We belated historians must not linger after his example, and if we did so it is possible that our chat would be then as eager as if delivered from a camp stool in a parrot house.... | |
 | Robert Edward Myhill Peach - 1884 - 198 oldal
...our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings. We belated historians must not linger after his example...so it is probable that our chat would be thin and lager, as if delivered from a camp-stool or a parrot-house. I, at least, have so much to do in unravelling... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1892 - 572 oldal
...our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings. We belated historians must not linger after his example...a parrot-house. I, at least, have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I... | |
 | George Eliot - 1900 - 254 oldal
...our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings. We belated historians must not linger after his example...in a parrot-house. I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and inter-woven, that all the light I... | |
 | George Eliot - 1906 - 690 oldal
...our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings. We belated historians must not linger after his example;...and eager, as if delivered from a camp-stool in a parrot• house. I at least have so much to do in unravelling certain human lots, and seeing how they... | |
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