 ... the only ardent hope I have for my future life is to have given to me some woman's duty — some possibility of devoting myself where I may see a daily result of pure calm blessedness in the life of another.  Historical Essays & Studies - Seite 282von John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton - 1907 - 544 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | George Eliot - 1885 - 540 Seiten
...gloom, of ennui, of platitude ; but in the midst of all this it is the land of duty and affection, and the only ardent hope I have for my future life is...result of pure calm blessedness in the life of another. Letter to How do you look ? I hope that bandeau of silMiss Sara ii • • IITT Henneii, 4th very locks... | |
 | George Eliot - 1885 - 392 Seiten
...gloom, of ennui, of platitude ; but in the midst of all this it is the land of duty and affection, and the only ardent hope I have for my future life is...of pure, calm blessedness in the life of another. 174 Christmas Wishes. [GENEVA, Letter to How do you look ? I hope that bandeau of silvery Miss Sara... | |
 | George Eliot - 1885 - 384 Seiten
...gloom, of ennui, of platitude ; but in the midst of all this it is the land of duty and affection, and the only ardent hope I have for my future life is to have given to me some woman,s duty — some possibility of devoting myself where I may see a daily result of pure, calm blessedness... | |
 | 1885 - 658 Seiten
...loneliness to one needing sympathy as her daily food. She had written from Geneva to Mrs. Bray : ' The only ardent hope I have for my future life is to have given io me some woman's duty — some possibility of devoting myself where I may see a daily result of pure... | |
 | M. ABDY-WILLIAMS - 1885 - 780 Seiten
...lapses anywhere from the picture to the diagram — it becomes the most offensive of all teaching."! " The only ardent hope I have for my future life is to have given me some woman's duty — some possibility of devoting myself where I may see a daily result of pure... | |
 | 1885 - 788 Seiten
...lapses anywhere from the picture to the diagram — it becomes the most offensive of all teaching. "f " The only ardent hope I have for my future life is to have given me some woman's duty — some possibility of devoting myself where I may see a daily result of pure... | |
 | Margaret Lonsdale - 1886 - 70 Seiten
...time, like many another soul, she was filled with longings for work, for return to early friends, " for some possibility of devoting myself where I may see...of pure, calm blessedness in the life of another." With her plunge into literary life as subeditor of the Westminster Review begins anxiety and struggle,... | |
 | Oscar Browning - 1890 - 200 Seiten
...gloom, of ennui, of platitude. " But in the midst of all this it is the land of duty and affection, and the only ardent hope I have for my future life is to have given to . ' Her room, still shown, is on the second floor of what is now 18, Rue de la Pelisserie. It has a... | |
 | Catherine Jane Hamilton - 1893 - 352 Seiten
...full of strength and unselfishness, longing for some possibility of " devoting herself where she might see a daily result of pure calm blessedness in the life of another." In October, 1 8 5 3 , she left the Chapmans, and went into lodgings at 21, Cambridge Street, Hyde Park,... | |
 | Anna Robeson Brown Burr - 1895 - 214 Seiten
...the voice of George Eliot's own heart. In a letter written the year before going to London she says, "The- only ardent hope I have for my future life is...of pure, calm blessedness in the life of another." Impelled by this feeling as her whole being was, she could neither live without it nor withhold it... | |
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