 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 - Page 1861879Full view - About this book
 | 1926 - 538 pages
...398).— The passage is from • Middle march ' and runs : — " If we had » keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing...that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity." HAHMATOFEBOS. /CHENEY (cli. 100,... | |
 | 1872 - 444 pages
...worth ;£20. The Bismuth mine in Utah is the only one in the world. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and 'he squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.... | |
 | 1872 - 796 pages
...mankind : and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the~squirrcl's heart beat, and we should die ¡,f that roar which lies on the other sidr of silence.... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1873 - 432 pages
...mankind ; and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing...that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity. However, Dorothea was crying, and... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1873 - 308 pages
...of mankind; and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing...that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity. However, Dorothea was crying, and... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1873 - 826 pages
...mankind : and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing...that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well-wadded with stupidity." — Vol. i., ' P- 35 «• " Character... | |
 | George Eliot, Alexander Main - 1873 - 444 pages
...mankind ; and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a. keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing...that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity. To have in general but little feeling,... | |
 | 1874 - 900 pages
...of mankind; and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing...that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity." Had George Eliot been gifted with... | |
 | George Eliot - 1875 - 460 pages
...mankind ; and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like . hearing...that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity. To have in general but little feeling,... | |
 | 1878 - 598 pages
...; 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...that roar which lies on the other side, of silence," and that " As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity. " Jin San FrancUeo Mlcroncoplcml... | |
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