 We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it — if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass — the...  St. Nicholas - Page 50edited by - 1920Full view - About this book
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1860 - 606 pages
...spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass — the same hips and haws on the autumn hedgerows — the...harm to the precious crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where every thing is known, and loved because it is known ? " The wood I walk in... | |
 | 1860 - 656 pages
...spring that we used to guther with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass — the same hips and haws on the autumn hedgerows — the...harm to the precious crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known ? "The wood I walk in... | |
 | George Eliot - Fiction - 1860 - 382 pages
...spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass — the same hips and haws on the autumn 'hedgerows — the...harm to the precious crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known ? The wood I walk in on... | |
 | English literature - 1860 - 598 pages
...as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass—the same hips aud haws on the autumn hedgerows—the same redbreasts that we used to call ' God's birds,"...harm to the precious crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known ? " The wood I walk in... | |
 | George Eliot - Fiction - 1860 - 384 pages
...as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass—the same hips and haws on the autumn hedgerows—the same redbreasts that we used to call " God's birds,"...harm to the precious crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known ? The wood I walk in on... | |
 | George Eliot - Brothers and sisters - 1860 - 476 pages
...to call " God's birds," because they did no harm to the precious crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where every thing is known, and loved because it is known ? The wood I walk in on this mild May day, with the young yellow-brown foliage of the oaks between... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1867 - 628 pages
...spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass — the same hips and haws on the autumn hedgerows — the...harm to the precious crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known ? The wood I walk in on... | |
 | George Eliot - 1870 - 816 pages
...spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass, — the same hips and haws on the autumn hedgerows, — the...harm to the precious crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loced because it is known ? The wood I walk in on... | |
 | George Eliot, Alexander Main - Aphorisms and apothegms in literature - 1873 - 444 pages
...spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass — the same hips and haws on the autumn hedgerows — the...harm to the precious crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known ? grove of tropic palms,... | |
 | George Eliot - 1875 - 460 pages
...spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass — the same hips and haws on the autumn hedgerows — the same redbreasts that we used to call c God's birds,' because they did no harm to the precious crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony... | |
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