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" 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 612
1901
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Notes and Queries, Volume 151

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...
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The Christian Pioneer, Volumes 26-28

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....
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 112

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....
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 112

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...
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The Vassar Miscellany, Volumes 3-4

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...
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Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works ...

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...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 17; Volume 80

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...
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Middlemarch, by George Eliot, Volume 1

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...
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Middlemarch: a study of provincial life, by George Eliot

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...
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Catholic World, Volume 18

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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