 ... the world. All the more did the affairs of the great world interest her, when communicated in the letters of high-born relations : the way in which fascinating younger sons had gone to the dogs by marrying their mistresses; the fine old-blooded idiocy...  The Works of George Eliot: Middlemarch - Pagina 86de George Eliot - 1878Vizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | George Eliot - 1871 - 432 pagini
...which fascinating younger sons had gone to the dogs by marrying their mistresses; the fine old-blooded idiocy of young Lord Tapir, and the furious gouty...because she believed as unquestioningly in birth and no-birth as she did in game and vermin. She would never have disowned any one on the ground of poverty... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1873 - 432 pagini
...which fascinating younger sons had gone to the dogs by marrying their mistresses; the fine old-blooded idiocy of young Lord Tapir, and the furious gouty...because she believed as unquestioningly in birth and no-birth as she did in game and vermin. She would never have disowned any one on the ground of poverty... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1873 - 594 pagini
...told, " if the rector's wife had been less free-spoken and less of a skin-flint." On all social topics, she retained details with the utmost accuracy, "and...reproduced them in an excellent pickle of epigrams.'' To quote all the sparkling bits of humour uttered by this village diplomatist would be to reproduce... | |
 | George Eliot - 1885 - 788 pagini
...marrying their mistresses; the fine old-blooded idiocy of young Lord Tapir, and the furious gouty humors of old Lord Megatherium; the exact crossing of genealogies...enjoyed the more because she believed as unquestioningly iu birth and no-birth as she did in game and vermin. She would never have disowned any one on the ground... | |
 | George Eliot - 1906 - 690 pagini
...been at all busy about Miss Brooke's marriage ; and why, when one match that she liked to think she had a hand in was frustrated, should she have straightway...she herself enjoyed the more because she believed as unquestlonlngly in birth and no-birth as she did in game and vermin. She would never have disowned... | |
 | George Eliot - 1908 - 426 pagini
...which fascinating younger sons had gone to the dogs by marrying their mistresses; the fine old-blooded idiocy of young Lord Tapir, and the furious gouty...because she believed as unquestioningly in birth and no-birth as she did in game and vermin. She would never have disowned any one on the ground of poverty... | |
 | George Eliot - 1908 - 420 pagini
...which fascinating younger sons had gone to the dogs by marrying their mistresses; the fine old-blooded idiocy of young Lord Tapir, and the furious gouty...details with the utmost accuracy, and reproduced them ill an excellent pickle of epigrams, which she herself enjoyed the more because she believed as unquestioningly... | |
 | David Bevan - 1993 - 132 pagini
...which fascinating younger sons had gone to the dogs in marrying their mistresses; the fine old-blooded idiocy of young Lord Tapir; and the furious gouty...a new branch and widened the relations of scandal. 36 The affliction exists for Mrs. Cadwallader here as a kind of "counter-syphilis." As the latter was... | |
 | Meinhard Winkgens - 1997 - 452 pagini
...which fascmatmg younger sons had gone to the dogs by marrying their mistresses; the fine oldblooded idiocy of young Lord Tapir, and the furious gouty...them in an excellent pickle of epigrams, which she herseif enjoyed the more because she believed äs unquestioningly in birth and no-birth äs she did... | |
 | John McCormick - 1971 - 348 pagini
...which fascinating younger sons had gone to the dogs by marrying their mistresses; the fine old-blooded idiocy of young Lord Tapir, and the furious gouty...because she believed as unquestioningly in birth and no-birth as she did in game and vermin. George Eliot is prodigal, for Mrs. Cadwallader is a very minor... | |
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