 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 Vassar Miscellany - Seite 3551873Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1926 - 538 Seiten
...(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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1873 - 826 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1873 - 308 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1873 - 432 Seiten
...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... | |
 | George Eliot, Alexander Main - 1873 - 444 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1874 - 900 Seiten
...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... | |
 | George Eliot - 1875 - 460 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1878 - 598 Seiten
...; to think, perhaps, with George Eliot, that " If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary 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," and that " As it is, the quickest of us walk about... | |
 | 1881 - 892 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1881 - 430 Seiten
...years, which supplied the only needed condition for his being robbed now. A compensation for stupidity: "If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary...and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that ro;>r that lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded... | |
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