 ... a creature full of eager, passionate longings for all that was beautiful and glad ; thirsty for all knowledge ; with an ear straining after dreamy music that died away and would not come near to her ; with a blind, unconscious yearning for something...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 5951860Full view - About this book
 | George Eliot - 1877 - 494 pages
...bed where her father lay to the dull walls of this sad chamber which was the centre of her world, was a creature full of eager, passionate longings for...of this mysterious life, and give her soul a sense ot home in it. No wonder, when there is this contrast between the outward and the inward, that painful... | |
 | George Eliot - 1878 - 440 pages
...where her father lay, to the dull walls of this sad chamber which was the centre of her world, was a creature full of eager, passionate longings for...mysterious life, and give her soul a sense of home in it. No wonder, when there is this contrast between the outward and the inward, that painful collisions... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1881 - 742 pages
...and glad ; thirsty for all knowledge, with an ear strainVOL. vi. — NO. ii. [Third Series.] HH ing after dreamy music that died away and would not come...mysterious life, and give her soul a sense of home in it. Thrown back upon herself at first by the peculiarities that none could admire and only her father would... | |
 | 1881 - 596 pages
...father's sick chamber, which was the centre of her world, we are shown this rare creature full of longing for all that was beautiful and glad; thirsty for all knowledge, with an ear strainTOL. vi.—no. ii. [Third Series.'] HH ing after dreamy music that died away and would not come... | |
 | George Eliot - 1883 - 850 pages
...bed where her father lay to the dull walls of this sad chamber which was the centre of her world, was a creature full of eager, passionate longings for...mysterious life, and give her soul a sense of home in it. No wonder, when there is this contrast between the outward and the inward, that painful collisions... | |
 | 1883 - 436 pages
...the Floss :" " Maggie in her brown frock with her eyes reddened and her heavy hair pushed back was a creature full of eager passionate longings for all...dreamy music that died away and would not come near her ; with a blind unconscious yearning for something that would link together the wonderful impressions... | |
 | George Eliot - 1885 - 404 pages
...where her father lay, to the dull walls of this sad chamber which was the centre of her world, was a creature full of eager, passionate longings for...mysterious life, and give her soul a sense of home in it. No wonder, when there is this contrast between the outward and the inward, that painful collisions... | |
 | George Eliot - 1885 - 540 pages
...She was probably then very much what she has described her own Maggie at the age of thirteen : — " A creature full of eager, passionate longings for...mysterious life, and give her soul a sense of home in it. No wonder, when there is this contrast between the outward and the inward, that painful collisions... | |
 | 1885 - 612 pages
...very happily applied to her her own description of Maggie Tulliver at the same age (thirteen):—"A creature full of eager, passionate longings for all...mysterious life, and give her soul a sense of home in it. No wonder, when there is this contrast between the outward and the inward, that painful collisions... | |
 | George Eliot - 1885 - 396 pages
...year. She was probably then very much what she has described her own Maggie at the age of thirteen.: " A creature full of eager, passionate longings for...that would link together the wonderful impressions of Uiis myste- j rious life, and give her soul a sense of home in it. No j wonder, when there is this... | |
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