I had but one regret in seeing the sublime beauty of the Grande Chartreuse. It was that the Pater had not seen it. I would still give up my own life willingly if he could have the happiness instead of me. But marriage has seemed to restore me to my old... The British Quarterly Review - Page 332edited by - 1885Full view - About this book
| George Eliot - 1885 - 512 pages
...Chartreuse, is all fresh and tender, shone through by a sunlight which cherishes and does not burn us. I had but one regret in seeing the sublime beauty...differently, I think I should have become very selfish. To feel daily the loveliness of a nature close to me, and to feel grateful for it, is the fountain... | |
| Mary Ann Evans - 1885 - 506 pages
...Chartreuse, is all fresh and tender, shone through by a sunlight which cherishes and does not burn us. I had but one regret in seeing the sublime beauty...differently, I think I should have become very selfish. To feel daily the loveliness of a nature close to me, and to feel grateful for it, is the fountain... | |
| George Eliot - 1885 - 502 pages
...Chartreuse, is all fresh and tender, shone through by a sunlight which cherishes and does not burn us. I had but one regret in seeing the sublime beauty...differently, I think I should have become very selfish. To feel daily the loveliness of a nature close to me, and to feel grateful for it, is the fountain... | |
| George Eliot - 1885 - 398 pages
...Chartreuse is all fresh and tender, shone through by a sunlight which cherishes and does not burn us. I had but one regret in seeing the sublime beauty...seemed to restore me to my old self. I was getting i Mrs. Hall. 286 Enjoyment of Travel. [MILAN, Letter to hard, and if I had decided differently, I think... | |
| 1885 - 844 pages
...that some suffer for * A few months before her death she wrote (21 May. 1880): " t would stiil pive up my own life willingly, if he could have the happiness instead of me " (vol. iii., p. 396). the people. The moral law is infinitely more precious than the personal happiness... | |
| Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1886 - 412 pages
...to watch over me." She did not forget Mr. Lewes. In looking upon the Grande Chartreuse, she said, " I would still give up my own life willingly, if he could have the happiness instead of me." On their return to London, they made their winter home at 4 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, a plain brick house.... | |
| Charles Gordon Ames - 1886 - 36 pages
...I shall be a better, more loving creature than I could in solitude." To Charles Lewes she wrote, " I was getting hard ; and if I had decided differently, I think I should have become very selfish. To feel daily the loveliness of a nature close to me, and to feel grateful to it, is the fountain of... | |
| Frederic Harrison - 1886 - 488 pages
...of marriage or of any honourable union 1 A few months before her death she wrote (21st May 1880) : " I would still give up my own life willingly if he could have the happiness instead of me" (vol. iii. p. 396). but that of the inflexible law of the land. In this welter of opinion, we hesitate... | |
| George Eliot - 1895 - 418 pages
...Chartreuse, is all fresh and tender, shone through by a sunlight which cherishes and does not burn us. I had but one regret in seeing the sublime beauty...willingly if he could have the happiness instead of i Mrs. Hall. me. But marriage has seemed to restore me to my Letter to old self. I was getting hard,... | |
| George Eliot - 1895 - 408 pages
...Chartreuse, is all fresh and tender, shone through by a sunlight which cherishes and does not burn us. I had but one regret in seeing the sublime beauty...willingly if he could have the happiness instead of 1 Mn. Bali. Letter to Charles L. Lewea, 21st May, 1880, from Grenoble. me. But marriage has seemed... | |
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