 Yet these commonplace people — many of them — bear a conscience, and have felt the sublime prompting to do the painful right ; they have their unspoken sorrows, and their sacred joys; their hearts have perhaps gone out towards their first-born, and...  The Nineteenth Century - Page 7601881Full view - About this book
 | Scotland - 1857 - 878 pages
...firet-born, and they have mourned over the irreclaimable dead. Nay, is VOL. LXXXL — NO. CCCCXCVL there not a pathos in their very insignificance, —...possibilities of that human nature which they share I Depend upon it, my dear lady, you would gain unspeakably if you would learn with me to see some of... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - Christian life - 1833 - 142 pages
...painful right ; they have their unspoken sorrows and their sacred joys ; their hearts have perhaps gone out towards their firstborn, and they have mourned...possibilities of that human nature which they share ? Depend upon it, we should gain unspeakably if we would learn some of the poetry and the pathos, the... | |
 | Scotland - 1857 - 804 pages
...towards their first born, and they have mourned over the irreclaimable dead. Nay, is VOL. LXXXL 11 there not a pathos in their very insignificance, —...possibilities of that human nature which they share ? Depend upon it, my dear lady, you would gain unspeakably if you would learn with me to see some of... | |
 | England - 1857 - 820 pages
...towards their first born, and they have mourned over the irreclaimable dead. Nay, is VOL. LXXXr. 11 their dim and narrow existence with the glorious possibilities of that human nature which they share ? Depend upon it, my dear lady, yon would gain unspeakably if yon would lenrn with me to see some of... | |
 | George Eliot - Clergy - 1858 - 382 pages
...painful right ; they have their unspoken sorrows, and their sacred joys; their hearts have perhaps gone out towards their first-born, and they have mourned...possibilities of that human nature which they share ? Depend upon it, you would gain unspeakably if you would learn with me to see some of the poetry and... | |
 | George Eliot - English fiction - 1858 - 196 pages
...painful right'; they have their unspoken sorrows, and their tacred joys ; their hearts have perhaps gone out towards their first-born, and they have mourned over the irreclaimable dead. Nay, it there not a pathos in their very insignificance, — in our comparison of their dim and narrow existence... | |
 | England - 1859 - 826 pages
...have perhaps gone out towards their first-born, and they have mourned over the irreclaimable deid. Nay, is there not a pathos in their very insignificance,...possibilities of that human nature which they share ? " Depend upon it, you would gain unspeakably if you would learn with me to see some of the poetry... | |
 | Scotland - 1859 - 1036 pages
...hearts have perhaps gone out towards their first-horn, and they have mourned over the irreclaimahle dead. Nay, is there not a pathos in their very insignificance,...of their dim and narrow existence with the glorious poss,hilities of that human nature which they share ? " Depend upon it, you would gain unspeakalily... | |
 | 1859 - 662 pages
...painful right ; they have thcir unspoken sorrows, and thcir sacred joys ; thcir hearts have perhaps gone out towards their first-born, and they have mourned over the irreclaimable dead. Kay, is there not a pathos in thcir very insignificance, — in our comparison of their dim and narrow... | |
 | 1867 - 584 pages
...painful right ; they have their unspoken sorrows and their sacred joys ; their hearts have, perhaps, gone out towards their first-born, and they have mourned...possibilities of that human nature which they share ?" No man, who truly appreciates Dutch art, can stand unmoved before the eternal works of Italy ; and... | |
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