 It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own narrow pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness, such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts, and much feeling for the rest of the...  The London Quarterly Review - Page 162edited by - 1882Full view - About this book
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1863 - 272 pages
...something that would not hinder me from having a good deal of pleasure." "That is not easy, my Lillo. It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever...goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts, and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves ; and this sort of happiness... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1863 - 806 pages
...—something that would not hinder me from having a good deal of pleasure." " That is not easy, my Lillo. It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever...goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts, and much feeling for the rest of the world, as well as ourselves ; and this sort of happiness... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1864 - 376 pages
...and very happy besides — something that will not hinder you from having a good deal of pleasure. It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring much about our own narrow pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness, such as goes along with... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1864 - 340 pages
...man, and very happy besides—something that will not hinder you from having a good deal of pleasure. It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring much about our own narrow pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness, such as goes along with... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1866 - 818 pages
...and we hear the voice of Herr Teufelsdrockh and the "Everlasting Yea" when Romola declares to Lillo, "We can only have the highest happiness, such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world, as well as for ourselves ; and this sort of happiness... | |
 | 1866 - 802 pages
...and the " Everlasting Yea" when Romola declares to Lillo, " We can only have the highest happi" ness, such as goes along with being a " great man, by having wide thoughts " and much feeling for the rest of the " world, as well as for ourselves ; and " this sort... | |
 | George Eliot - 1870 - 816 pages
...something that would not hinder me from having a good deal of pleasure. " That is not easy, my Lillo. It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever...by caring very much about our own narrow pleasures. Wu can only have the highest happiness, such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts,... | |
 | 1872 - 894 pages
...found them for the uses of life ; how patiently and persistently she luid acquired their lesson. " It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever...by caring very much about our own narrow pleasures. \Ve can only have the highest happiness, such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide... | |
 | 1873 - 778 pages
...threads of her history, and interpret its significance to the world, this is what she said to Lillo : " It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever...goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts, and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as for ourselves ; and this sort of happiness... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1873 - 766 pages
...threads of her history, and interpret its significance to the world, this is what she said to Lillo : " It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever...goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts, and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as for ourselves ; and this sort of happiness... | |
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