 These familiar flowers, these well-remembered bird-notes, this sky with its fitful brightness, these furrowed and grassy fields, each with a sort of personality given to it by the capricious hedgerows — such things as these are the mother tongue of...  The North British Review - Seite 1691860Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | George Albemarle Bertie Dewar - 1899 - 356 Seiten
...and grassy fields, each with a sort of personality given to it by the capricious hedgerows — such things as these are the mother tongue of our imagination,...subtle inextricable associations the fleeting hours of childhood left behind them.' GEORGE ELIOT. CHAPTER I In Hampshire Highlands THE house stands in a small... | |
 | William Francis Barry - 1904 - 408 Seiten
...and grassy fields, each with a sort of personality given to it by the capricious hedgerows — such things as these are the mother tongue of our imagination,...fleeting hours of our childhood left behind them." And so Maggie Tulliver, when she read about Christiana passing "the river over which there is no bridge,"... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1906 - 844 Seiten
...by the capricious hedgerows — such things as these are the mother -tongue of our imagination, 640 the language that is laden with all the subtle inextricable...deep-bladed grass to-day, might be no more than the 645 faint perception of wearied souls, if it were not for the sunshine and the grass in the far-off... | |
 | Daniel Harvey Hill, Frank Lincoln Stevens, Charles William Burkett - 1906 - 424 Seiten
...grassy fields, each with a sort of personality given to it by the capri15 cious hedgerows, — such things as these are the mother tongue of our imagination, the language that is laden with all the subtle associations the fleeting hours of our childhood left behind them. Our delight in the sunshine on the... | |
 | 1910 - 82 Seiten
...and grassy fields, each with a sort of personality given to it by the capricious hedgerows,— such things as these are the mother tongue of our imagination,...it were not for the sunshine and the grass in the far off years which still live in us, and transform our perception into love.— The Mill on the Fiona.... | |
 | George Eliot - 1910 - 822 Seiten
...and grassy fields, each with a sort of personality given to it by the capricious hedgerows, — such things as these are the mother tongue of our imagination,...of our childhood left behind them. Our delight in the_ sunshine on thedeep-bladed grass to-day might be no more wearied souls, if it were not for the... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1910 - 330 Seiten
...personality given to it by the capricious hedgerows — such things as these are the mother-tongue of our imagination, the language that is laden with...left behind them. Our delight in the sunshine on the deep bladed grass to-day might be no more than the faint perception of wearied souls if it were not... | |
 | George Eliot - 1914 - 598 Seiten
...personality given to it by the capricious hedgerows, — such things as these are the mother-tongue of our imagination, the language that is laden with...our childhood left behind them. Our delight in the 5 sunshine on the deep-bladed grass to-day might be no more than the faint perception of wearied souls,... | |
 | Henry Arthur Treble, George Henry Vallins - 1927 - 132 Seiten
...fields, each with a sort of personality given to it by the — hedgerows such things as these are the — tongue of our imagination, the language that is laden with all the associations the — hours of our childhood left behind them. (c) I have three — schoolboys for my... | |
 | Albert Hofstadter, Richard Kuhns - 2009 - 730 Seiten
...furrowed and grassy fields, each with a sort of personality given to it by the capricious hedge, such things as these are the mother tongue of our imagination,...wearied souls, if it were not for the sunshine and grass of far-off years, which still live in us and transform our perception into love." George Eliot... | |
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