 My brightest spot, next to my love of old friends, is the deliciously calm new friendship that Herbert Spencer gives me. We see each other every day, and have a delightful cameraderie in everything. But for him my life would be desolate enough.  Spencer and Spencerism - Page 55by Hector Macpherson - 1900 - 241 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1906 - 870 pages
...One wonders what he thought of ' See the Conquering Hero comes.' At this time she enjoyed with him ' a delightful camaraderie in everything. But for him my life would be desolate enough.' A letter of 1858 includes a terse, discriminating view of Ruskin : I don't know whether you look out... | |
 | George Eliot - 1885 - 396 pages
...new friendship that Herbert Spen- "™M'a ,cer gives me. We see each other every day, and have '8s2' a delightful camaraderie in everything. But for him my life would be desolate enough. What a wretched lot of old, shrivelled creatures we shall be by and by. Never mind, the uglier we get... | |
 | George Eliot - 1885 - 392 pages
...calm, new friendship that Herbert Spen- ^"M"^ cer gives me. We see each other every day, and have l8sia delightful camaraderie in everything. But for him my life would be desolate enough. What a wretched lot of old, shrivelled creatures we shall be by and by. Never mind, the uglier we get... | |
 | Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1886 - 412 pages
...society as we like. He is a good, delightful creature, and I always feel better for being with him. . . . My brightest spot, next to my love of old friends,...everything. But for him my life would be desolate enough." There is no telling what this happy friendship might have resulted in, if Mr. Spencer had not introduced... | |
 | George Eliot - 1895 - 434 pages
...in " Norma. " She is quite beautiful this season, thinner than she was, and really younger looking. My brightest spot, next to my love of old friends, is the deliriously calm new friendship that Herbert Spencer gives me. We see each other every day, and have... | |
 | 1900 - 742 pages
...sagacity of his judgment. To the same correspondent Miss Evans had written a year or so previous : " My brightest spot, next to my love of old friends,...everything. But for him my life would be desolate enough." And George Henry Lswes wrote in his Journal on January 28, 1859 : " Walked along the Thames towards... | |
 | Clara Elizabeth Laughlin - 1902 - 426 pages
...for being with him." A little later we find her writing to her old friends, the Brays of Coventry : " My brightest spot, next to my love of old friends,...everything. - But for him my life would be desolate enough." This is all very well, Miss Evans ! But when Herbert Spencer was merely a rising young author to you,... | |
 | Mathilde Blind - 1904 - 426 pages
...was Herbert Spencer, who was just making himself strongly felt in literary and philosophic circles. " My brightest spot, next to my love of old friends,...Herbert Spencer gives me. We see each other every day." Spencer says that their being seen together so frequently gave rise to the report that they were engaged... | |
 | Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.) - 1921 - 492 pages
...made her acquainted with Lewes, proved the bright, particular spot. "My brightest spot, next to the love of old friends, is the deliciously calm new friendship that Herbert Spencer gives me. . . But for him my life would be desolate enough." Spencer insists that he in no wise moulded her opinions,... | |
 | Elisabeth Zuber - 1919 - 98 pages
...Scenes of Clerical Life zu sein.1 Von Spencers Freundschaft sagt Eliot;2 „My brightest spot . . . is the deliciously calm new friendship that Herbert...Spencer gives me. We see each other every day, and have the delightful camaraderie in everything. But'for him my life would be desolate enough." Auch sie spricht... | |
| |
