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" Paint us an angel, if you can, with a floating violet robe, and a face paled by the celestial light; paint us yet oftener a Madonna, turning her mild face upward and opening her arms to welcome the divine glory... "
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by Harry Quilter - 1880 - 146 pages
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Calcutta Review, Volume 37

1862 - 394 pages
...lies in no secret of pro* portion, but in the secret of deep human sympathy. Paint us an angel if you can, with a floating violet robe, and a face paled...turning her mild face upward and opening her arms to welcome the divine glory ; but do not impose on us any aesthetic rules, which shall banish from the...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18

1866 - 808 pages
...will not be wanting. He finds in " Adam Bede " the following passage : — " Paint us an angel if you can, with a floating violet robe and a face paled...turning her mild face upward, and opening her arms to welcome the divine glory ; but do not impose on us any .esthetic rules which shall banish from the...
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Adam Bede, Volume 1

George Eliot - 1859 - 468 pages
...which lies in no secret of proportion, but in the secret of deep human sympathy.) Paint us an angel, if yon can, with a floating violet robe, and a face...turning her mild face upward, and opening her arms to welcome the divine glory; but do not impose on us any aesthetic rules which shall banish from the region...
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Adam Bede, by George Eliot, Volume 2

Mary Ann Evans - 1859 - 390 pages
...lies in no secret of proportion, but in the secret of deep human sympathy. Paint us an angel, if you can, with a floating violet robe, and a face paled...turning her mild face upward and opening her arms to welcome the divine glory ; but do not impose on us any aesthetic rules which shall banish from the...
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Adam Bede, by George Eliot, Volume 2

Mary Ann Evans - 1859 - 390 pages
...lies in no secret of proportion, but in the secret of deep human sympathy. Paint us an angel, if you can, with a floating violet robe, and a face paled...turning her mild face upward and opening her arms to welcome the divine glory ; but do not impose on us any aesthetic rules which shall banish from the...
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Adam Bede, Volume 3

George Eliot - 1859 - 524 pages
...proportion, but in the secret of deep human sympathy. Paint us an angel, if you can, with a tioating violet robe, and a face paled by the celestial light;...turning her mild face upward and opening her arms to weleome the divine glory : but do not impose on us any aesthetic rules which shall banish from the...
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Adam Bede, Volume 2

George Eliot - 1859 - 520 pages
...lies in no secret of proportion, but in the secret of deep human sympathy. Paint us an angel, if von can, with a floating violet robe, and a face paled by the celestial light; paint us yet oftencr a Madonna, turning her mild face upward and opening her arms to welcome the divine glory :...
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Adam Bede

George Eliot - 1860 - 452 pages
...but in the secret of d^ep hujaaii symrjathy. Paint us an angel, if you can, witTT^floating^oTetroBe, and a face paled by the celestial light ; paint us...turning her mild face upward, and opening, her arms to welcome the divine glory; but do not impose on us any aesthetic rules which shall banish from the region...
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Thackeray: Review of Vanity Fair, Newcomes. Cut from Calcutta Review, Dec ...

1861 - 100 pages
...lies in no secret of proportion, but in the secret of deep human sympathy. Paint us an angel if you can, with a floating violet robe, and a face paled...turning her mild face upward and opening her arms to welcome the divine glory ; but do not impose on us any aesthetic rules, which shall banish from the...
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Calcutta Review, Volume 37

1862 - 394 pages
...lies in no secret of proportion, but in the secret of deep human sympathy. Paint us an angel if you can, with a floating violet robe, and a face paled by the celestial • light ; paint us yet oftener.a Madonna, turning her mild face upward and opening her arms to welcome the divine glory ;...
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