The Works of George Meredith, Volume 6C. Scribner's sons, 1896 |
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Page 61 - He has little character for the moment. Most youths are like Pope's women; they have no character at all. And indeed a character that does not wait for circumstances to shape it, is of small worth in the race that must be run.
Page 118 - Nevertheless, they to whom mortal life has ceased to be a long matter perceive that our appeals for conviction are answered — now and then very closely upon the call. When we have cast off the scales of hope and fancy, and, surrender our claims on mad chance, it is given us to see that some plan is working out : that the heavens, icy as they are to the pangs of our blood, have been throughout speaking to our souls ; and, according to the strength there existing, we learn to comprehend them.
Page 1 - LONG after the hours when tradesmen are in the habit of commencing business, the shutters of a certain shop in the town of Lymport-on-the-Sea remained significantly closed, and it became known that death had taken Mr. Melchisedec Harrington, and struck one off the list of living tailors.
Page 25 - But that's what he cannot possibly learn in England — not possibly ! As for your poor husband, Harriet ! one really has to remember his excellent qualities to forgive him, poor man ! And that stiff bandbox of a man of yours, Caroline ! " addressing the wife of the Marine, " he looks as if he were all angles and sections, and were taken to pieces every night and put together in the morning. He may be a good soldier — good anything you will — but, Dios ! to be married to that ! He is not civilised.