Middlemarch, by George Eliot, Volumul 11873 |
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Pagina 3
... knew many passages of Pascal's Pensées and of Jeremy Taylor by heart ; and to her the destinies of mankind , seen by the light of Christianity , made the solicitudes of feminine fashion appear an occupation for Bedlam . She could not ...
... knew many passages of Pascal's Pensées and of Jeremy Taylor by heart ; and to her the destinies of mankind , seen by the light of Christianity , made the solicitudes of feminine fashion appear an occupation for Bedlam . She could not ...
Pagina 23
... knew Wilberforce in his best days . Do you know Wilberforce ? " Mr Casaubon said , " No. " " Well , Wilberforce was perhaps not enough of a thinker ; but if I went into Parliament , as I have been asked to do , I should sit on the inde ...
... knew Wilberforce in his best days . Do you know Wilberforce ? " Mr Casaubon said , " No. " " Well , Wilberforce was perhaps not enough of a thinker ; but if I went into Parliament , as I have been asked to do , I should sit on the inde ...
Pagina 53
... knew from Mrs Cadwallader's maid that Sir James was marry the eldest Miss Brooke . " to " How can you let Tantripp talk such gossip to you , Celia ? " said Dorothea , indignantly , not the less angry because details asleep in her mem ...
... knew from Mrs Cadwallader's maid that Sir James was marry the eldest Miss Brooke . " to " How can you let Tantripp talk such gossip to you , Celia ? " said Dorothea , indignantly , not the less angry because details asleep in her mem ...
Pagina 59
... knew Romilly . Casaubon didn't know Romilly . He is a little buried in books , you know , Casaubon is . ” " When a man has great studies and is writing a great work , he must of course give up seeing much of the world . How can he go ...
... knew Romilly . Casaubon didn't know Romilly . He is a little buried in books , you know , Casaubon is . ” " When a man has great studies and is writing a great work , he must of course give up seeing much of the world . How can he go ...
Pagina 72
... knew nothing of what had happened . She attributed Dorothea's abstracted manner , and the evidence of further crying since they had got home , to the temper she had been in about Sir James Chettam and the buildings , and was careful not ...
... knew nothing of what had happened . She attributed Dorothea's abstracted manner , and the evidence of further crying since they had got home , to the temper she had been in about Sir James Chettam and the buildings , and was careful not ...
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admiration agreeable beauty believe better Brooke's brother brother Solomon Bulstrode Bulstrode's Cadwallader called Casau Casaubon Celia certainly choly clergyman clever colour cottages dear delight Dodo Doro Dorothea Dr Minchin Dr Sprague everything expect eyes Farebrother Featherstone feeling fellow felt fond Frank Hawley Fred Freshitt gentleman girl give hand happy hear hope husband interest kind knew knowledge Ladislaw laugh less light living looked Lowick Lydgate Lydgate's marriage marry Mary Garth mean melan ment Middlemarch mind Miss Brooke morning Naumann ness never notions object opinion perhaps poor pretty profession question reason Rector's wife Rome Rosamond seemed sense Sir James Chettam sister smile sort soul speak Stone Court suppose sure talk Tamburlaine tell things thought tion Tipton tone turned Tyke uncle usual Vicar Vincy vote walk Waule wish woman young ladies
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Pagina 107 - ... how could she be confident that one-roomed cottages were not for the glory of God, when men who knew the classics appeared to conciliate indifference to the cottages with zeal for the glory ? Perhaps even Hebrew might be necessary — at least the alphabet and a few roots — in order to arrive at the core of things, and judge soundly on the social duties of the Christian.
Pagina 1 - Miss BROOKE had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress. Her hand and wrist were so finely formed that she could wear sleeves not less bare of style than those in which the Blessed Virgin appeared to Italian painters...
Pagina 146 - ... we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.
Pagina 356 - was always Dorothea's question. "They are, I believe, highly esteemed. Some of them represent the fable of Cupid and Psyche, which is probably the romantic invention of a literary period, and cannot, I think, be reckoned as a genuine mythical product. But if you like these...
Pagina 7 - Riding was an indulgence which she allowed herself in spite of conscientious qualms; she felt that she enjoyed it in a pagan sensuous way, and always looked forward to renouncing it.
Pagina 351 - That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency, has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind; and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and We should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.
Pagina 251 - ... armchair to the proscenium and chat with us in all the lusty ease of his fine English. But Fielding lived when the days were longer (for time, like money, is measured by our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings. We belated historians must not linger after his example; and if we did so, it is probable that our chat would be thin and eager, as if delivered from a campstool in a parrot-house. I at least have so much to do in unraveling...
Pagina 33 - ... when he used a Greek or Latin phrase he always gave the English with scrupulous care, but he would probably have done this in any case. A learned provincial clergyman is accustomed to think of his acquaintances as of " lords, knyghtes, and other noble and worthi men, that conue Latyn but lytille.