Many Theresas have been born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of far-resonant action ; perhaps only a life of mistakes, the offspring of a certain spiritual grandeur ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity... The Disciplined Heart - Pagina 112de Caroline J. Simon - 1997 - 214 paginiPrevizualizare limitată - Despre această carte
| 1873 - 972 pagini
...Strauss. " Many Theresas have been born, who found for themselves no epic life wherein there wae a constant unfolding of farresonant action ; perhaps...found no sacred poet, and sank unwept into oblivion." Saint Theresa accordingly is now "foundress of nothing." Dorothea, whose history is thus preluded by... | |
| George Eliot - 1871 - 432 pagini
...born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of far -resonant action; perhaps only a life of mistakes, the offspring...unwept into oblivion. With dim lights and tangled circumstance they tried to shape their thought and deed in noble agreement; but after all, to common... | |
| Mary Ann Evans - 1873 - 432 pagini
...born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of far -resonant action; perhaps only a life of mistakes, the offspring...unwept into oblivion. With dim lights and tangled circumstance they tried to shape their thought and deed in noble agreement; but after all, to common... | |
| George Eliot, Alexander Main - 1873 - 444 pagini
...who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of far-resonant sction ; perhaps only a life of mistakes, the offspring of...unwept into oblivion. With dim lights and tangled circumstance they tried to shape their thought and deed in noble agreement ; but after all, to common... | |
| Henry Allon - 1873 - 712 pagini
...distracted life. She sets herself to paint by no means a tragedy, but what she herself describes as ' a life of mistakes, the offspring of a certain spiritual...grandeur, illmatched with the meanness of opportunity.* And what she loses in beauty and in grandeur of effect by this deliberate aim, she seems to gain in... | |
| Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1873 - 594 pagini
..."social morality" of the world, and made the sport of external circumstances. George Eliot replies, — "a life of mistakes, the offspring of a certain spiritual...grandeur, ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity." In other words, nobleness of nature, in the world of to-day, stands in imminent danger of shipwreck... | |
| George Eliot - 1875 - 460 pagini
...of her kind. Many Theresas have been born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of far-resonant action ; perhaps...unwept into oblivion. With dim lights and tangled circumstance they tried to shape their thought and deed in noble agreement ; but after all, to common... | |
| 1877 - 1212 pagini
...unorganized. " Many Theresas have been born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of far-resonant action ; perhaps...grandeur ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity. . . . With dim lights and tangled circumstances they tried to shape their thought and deed in noble... | |
| Edward Dowden - 1878 - 542 pagini
...unorganized. " Many Theresas have been born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of far-resonant action ; perhaps...grandeur ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity. '. . . With dim lights and tangled circumstances they tried to shape their thought and deed in noble... | |
| George Eliot - 1878 - 434 pagini
...selves no epic life wherein there was a constan• unfolding of far-resonant action ; perhaps only i life of mistakes, the offspring of a certain spiritual grandeur ill-matched with the meanness of oppor tunity ; perhaps a, tragic failure which found nc sacred poet and sank unwept into oblivion.... | |
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