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 | George Eliot - City and town life - 1871 - 432 pages
...or to Miss Brooke than the qualities of the woman who had attracted this young surgeon. But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human...lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells like a calculated irony on the indifference or the frozen stare with which... | |
 | 1873 - 610 pages
...words : ' The stealthy vengeance of human lots, — the slow ' preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells like ' a calculated irony on...frozen stare with ' which we look at our unintroduced neighbour. Destiny stands ' by sarcastic, with our dramatis persona: folded in her hand.' It is curious... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - Humanities - 1873 - 594 pages
...is forecast, not by them, but for them, and often in spite of them. Let us quote a passage: "Any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human...lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells like a calculated irony on the indifference or the frozen stare with which... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1873 - 308 pages
...or to Miss Brooke than the qualities of the woman who had attracted this young surgeon. But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human...lots sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells like a calculated irony on the indifference or the frozen stare with which... | |
 | George Eliot, Alexander Main - Aphorisms and apothegms in literature - 1873 - 444 pages
...they looked down with imperfect discrimination on the belts of thicker life below. — 0 — Any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human...lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells like a calculated irony on the indifference or the frozen stare with which... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1873 - 432 pages
...or to Miss Brooke than the qualities of the woman who had attracted this young surgeon. But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human...lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells like a calculated irony on the indifference or the frozen stare with which... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - Humanities - 1873 - 580 pages
...by them, but for them, and often in spite of them. Let us quote a passage: "Any one watching keen, y the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells like a calculated irony on the indifference or the frozen stare with which... | |
 | George Eliot - 1875 - 460 pages
...they looked down with imperfect discrimination on the belts of thicker life below. — o — Any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human...lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells like a calculated irony on the indifference or the frozen stare with which... | |
 | George Eliot - 1878 - 434 pages
...keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells like a calculated irony on the indifference or the frozen stare with v which we look at our unintroduced neighbour. Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personal... | |
 | 1881 - 592 pages
...George Eliot's ethics of life lies in such statements as this : — "But any one watching the steal thy convergence of human lots sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells like a calculated irony on the indifference or the frozen stare with which... | |
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