...renounced nobly, and found that "renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly." She was "a creature full of eager, passionate longings for...after dreamy music that died away and would not come to her; with a blind, unconscious yearning for something that would link together the wonderful impressions...

...Maggie Tulliver. Her own youthful longings and aspirations were thus interwoven in her description of Maggie: "A creature full of eager, passionate longings...mysterious life, and give her soul a sense of home in it." Her only sister, Christiana ("Chrissy") is represented as Celia in Middlemarch. Tom Tulliver is a characterization...

...Floss," who reveals the nature of that tragic child, "a creature full of eager and passionate longing for all that was beautiful and glad ; thirsty for...mysterious life, and give her soul a sense of home in it." Chilvers Coton, like Nuneaton, has no memories of its famous woman of letters. The only time we saw...

...Floss," who reveals the nature of that tragic child, "a creature full of eager and passionate longing for all that was beautiful and glad; thirsty for all...mysterious life, and give her soul a sense of home in it." Chilvers Coton, like Nuneaton, has no memories of its famous woman of letters. The only time we saw...

...Floss," who reveals the nature of that tragic child, "a creature full of eager and passionate longing for all that was beautiful and glad; thirsty for all...mysterious life, and give her soul a sense of home in it." Chilvers Coton, like Nuneaton, has no memories of its famous woman of letters. The only time we saw...

...probably very much like the Maggie Tulliver of whom she afterwards wrote in "The Mill on the Floss," — a creature "full of eager, passionate longings for...mysterious life, and give her soul a sense of home in it." In later years, with the full development of her intellectual powers, her attainments were in the highest...

...probably very much like the Maggie Tulliver of whom she afterwards wrote in "The Mill on the Floss," — a creature "full of eager, passionate longings for...near to her ; with a blind, unconscious yearning for some» .11!-.. 3if ITTVt: -SCI 3d — .QKEOTV — n.*=_c*f ancf argrnre.: i-- 164; Idiss iTsns> naiauou...

...service, and then diverted by some vain, trifling desire. In " The Mill on the Floss " she says this of Maggie : " A creature full of eager, passionate longings...knowledge ; with an ear straining after dreamy music that dies away and would not come near to her." Can any one doubt that she is thinking of herself ? the...

...died away and would not come near to her ; with a blind, unconscious yearning for something that 5 would link together the wonderful impressions of this...mysterious life, and give her soul a sense of home in it. No wonder, when there is this contrast between the outward and the inward, that painful collisions...

...where her father lay, to the dull walls of this sad chamber which was the centre of her world, was a creature full of eager, passionate longings for...mysterious life, and give her soul a sense of home in it." Bk. 3, v. " When Maggie was not angry, she was as dependent on kind or cold words as a daisy on the...