“The world would have a new dreariness for her, as a wilderness that a magician’s spells had turned for a little while into a garden.”
Middlemarch (1871)
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English novelist, journalist and translator 1819–1880Related quotes

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846), To Cowper (1842)
Context: p>All for myself the sigh would swell,
The tear of anguish start;
I little knew what wilder woe
Had filled the Poet's heart.I did not know the nights of gloom,
The days of misery;
The long, long years of dark despair,
That crushed and tortured thee.</p

“A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.”
April 14, 1772, p. 201
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II

The Snow Queen in Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (eds.) Snow White, Blood Red (1993), p. 363
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