 Hetty's face had a language that transcended her feelings. There are faces which nature charges with a meaning and pathos not belonging to the single human soul that flutters beneath them, but speaking the joys and sorrows of foregone generations...  Bentley's Quarterly Review - Page 4271859Full view - About this book
 | George Eliot - 1859 - 468 pages
...desire to others. But Hetty's face had a language that transcended her feelings. There are faces which nature charges with a meaning and pathos not belonging...doubtless has been and is somewhere, but not paired with these eyes—perhaps paired with pale eyes that can say nothing ; just as a national language may be... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1859 - 390 pages
...desire to others. But Hetty's face had a language that transcended her feelings. There are faces which nature charges with a meaning and pathos not belonging...doubtless has been and is some-where, but not paired with these eyes—perhaps paired with pale eyes that can say nothing; just as a national language may be... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1859 - 390 pages
...desire to others. But Hetty's face had a language that transcended her feelings. There are faces which nature charges with a meaning and pathos not belonging...them, but speaking the joys and sorrows of foregone generations — eyes that tell of deep love which doubtless has been and is somewhere, but not paired... | |
 | George Eliot - 1859 - 520 pages
...desire to others. But Hetty's face had a language that transcended her feeling*. There are faces which nature charges with a meaning and pathos not belonging...them, but speaking the joys and sorrows of foregone generations — eyes that tell of deep love which doubtless has been and is somewhere, but not paired... | |
 | 1859 - 558 pages
...language that transcended her feelings, ''says the novelist. '•There are faces which nature changes with a meaning and pathos not belonging to the single...them, but speaking the joys and sorrows of foregone generations; eyes that tell of deep love, which doubtless has been and is somewhere, but not paired... | |
 | 1859 - 676 pages
...sonl that flutters beneath them, but speaking tlie joys and sorrows of foregone generations — eyes that tell of deep love which doubtless has been, and...not paired with those eyes—- perhaps paired with pule eyes that can say nothing, just as a national language may be instinct with poetry, unfelt by... | |
 | George Eliot - 1859 - 524 pages
...soul that flutters beneath them, but speaking the joys and sorrows of foregone generations — eyes that tell of deep love which doubtless has been and is somewhere, but not paired with these eyes — perhaps paired with pale eyes that can say nothing ; just as a national language may... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1861 - 840 pages
...Hetty's face had a language that transcended her feelings," the novelist says. " There are faces which nature charges with a meaning and pathos not belonging...them, but speaking the joys and sorrows of foregone generations — eyes that tell of deep love which doubtless has been and is somewhere, but not paired... | |
 | George Eliot - 1867 - 486 pages
...desire to others. But Hetty's face had a language that transcended her feelings. There are faces which nature charges with a meaning and pathos not belonging...them, but speaking the joys and sorrows of foregone generations — eyes that tell of deep love which doubtless has been and is somewhere, but not paired... | |
 | 1867
...feelings." And then she goes on to say that " there are faces which Nature charges with a meaning and a pathos not belonging to the single human soul that...them, but speaking the joys and sorrows of foregone generations; eyes that tell of deep love which doubtless has been, and is somewhere, but not paired... | |
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