George Eliot's Works: Adam Bede

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Estes and Lauriat, 1893
 

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עמוד 153 - Dark and cheerless is the morn, Unaccompanied by thee ; Joyless is the day's return Till thy mercy's beams I see, Till they inward light impart, Glad my eyes and warm my heart.
עמוד 313 - ... em by the tail. I can count a stocking-top while a man's getting's tongue ready ; an' when he outs wi' his speech at last, there's little broth to be made on't.
עמוד 153 - Christ, the true, the only light, Sun of righteousness, arise ! Triumph o'er the shades of night ; Day-spring from on high, be near ; Day-star, in my heart appear. 2 Dark and cheerless...
עמוד 321 - What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life — to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?
עמוד 287 - Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them: it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in. Even idleness is eager now - eager for amusement; prone to excursion-trains, art museums, periodical literature, and exciting novels; prone even to scientific theorizing and cursory peeps through microscopes.
עמוד 102 - Beauty has an expression beyond and far above the one woman's soul that it clothes, as the words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them : it is more than a woman's love that moves us in a woman's eyes — it seems to be a far-off mighty love that has come near to us, and made speech for itself there...
עמוד 248 - I've known what it is in my life to repent and feel it's too late. I felt I'd been too harsh to my father when he was gone from me— I feel it now, when I think of him. I've no right to be hard towards them as have done wrong and repent.
עמוד 98 - I make one quarter o' the rent, and save th' other quarter — I say, if Mr. Thurle's so ready to take farms under you, it's a pity but what he should take this, and see if he likes to live in a house wi...
עמוד 98 - ... em with their hands on their hips listening to all manner o' gossip when they should be down on their knees a-scouring. If we're to go to ruin, it shanna be wi' having our back kitchen turned into a public.
עמוד 312 - Come, now, you canna draw back ; you said once as women wouldna ha' been a bad invention if they'd all been like Dinah." " I meant her voice, man — I meant her voice, that was all,

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