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Victorian Quotes Set 2

Terms in this set (30)

"The habit of analysis has a tendency to wear away the feelings."
Mill, Autobiography
"The only good of grass is to make chaff."
Browning, Fra Lippo Lippi
"Sophocles long ago heard it on the Aegean."
Arnold, Dover Beach
"... and have our lips unchained..."
Arnold, The Buried Life
"Then all smiles stopped together."
Browning, My Last Duchess
"The mirror cracked from side to side..."
Tennyson, Lady of Shalott
"It is curious to reflect that this will be described in the papers as 'intimacy.'"
Waugh, A Handful of Dust
"She rubbed against his cheek in the way she had."
Waugh, A Handful of Dust
"She's a grand girl."
Waugh, A Handful of Dust
"Only one person in the world could be as he was, in love."
Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
"She felt like a nun who has left the world..."
Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
"Do you remember the lake?"
Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
"It was the stillness of an implacable force brooding over an inscrutable intention."
Conrad, Heart of Darkness
"There was nothing either above or below him, and I knew it. He had kicked himself loose of the earth."
Conrad, Heart of Darkness
"It was as though a veil had been rent."
Conrad, Heart of Darkness
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