If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. The Twentieth Century - Page 6121901Full view - About this book
| Electronic journals - 1926 - 538 pages
...(12 S. xii. 353: cxlvi. 398).— The passage is from • Middle march ' and runs : — " If we had » keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life,...and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded... | |
| Baptists - 1872 - 444 pages
...camel weighs ten pounds, and is worth ;£20. The Bismuth mine in Utah is the only one in the world. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary...life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and 'he squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.... | |
| England - 1872 - 796 pages
...wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind : and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary...life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the~squirrcl's heart beat, and we should die ¡,f that roar which lies on the other sidr of silence.... | |
| England - 1872 - 864 pages
...itself into the coarse emotion of mankind ; imd perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If wo had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would bei liko hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we ehould die of that ruar which... | |
| Universities and colleges - 1873 - 590 pages
...keen, and that a single step would bring her to the bound she feared to reach when she wrote, <• If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary...the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of the woe which lies the other side of silence/' HEH ENGLISH AND AMERICAN GENTLEWOMEN. Human nature is essentially... | |
| George Eliot, Alexander Main - Aphorisms and apothegms in literature - 1873 - 444 pages
...wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind ; and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a. keen vision and feeling of all ordinary...and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1873 - 826 pages
...wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind : and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary...and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well-wadded... | |
| Mary Ann Evans - 1873 - 432 pages
...wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind ; and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary...and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded... | |
| Mary Ann Evans - 1873 - 308 pages
...wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind; and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary...and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded... | |
| 1874 - 900 pages
...wrought itself into the coarse emotions of mankind; and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary...and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded... | |
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