Middlemarch, by George Eliot, Volumul 11873 |
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... , and turned them back from their great resolve . That child - pilgrim- age was a fit beginning . Theresa's passionate , ideal nature demanded an epic life : what were many - volumed romances of chivalry and the social conquests.
... , and turned them back from their great resolve . That child - pilgrim- age was a fit beginning . Theresa's passionate , ideal nature demanded an epic life : what were many - volumed romances of chivalry and the social conquests.
Pagina 3
... nature after some lofty conception of the world which might frankly include the parish of Tipton and her own rule of conduct there ; she was enamoured of intensity and greatness , and rash in embracing whatever seemed to her to have ...
... nature after some lofty conception of the world which might frankly include the parish of Tipton and her own rule of conduct there ; she was enamoured of intensity and greatness , and rash in embracing whatever seemed to her to have ...
Pagina 34
... nature , every sign is apt to conjure up wonder , hope , belief , vast as a sky , and coloured by a diffused thimbleful of matter in the shape of knowledge . They are not always too grossly deceived ; for Sinbad himself may have fallen ...
... nature , every sign is apt to conjure up wonder , hope , belief , vast as a sky , and coloured by a diffused thimbleful of matter in the shape of knowledge . They are not always too grossly deceived ; for Sinbad himself may have fallen ...
Pagina 37
... nature to which every variety in experience is an epoch . It was three o'clock in the beautiful breezy autumn day when Mr Casaubon drove off to his Rectory at Lowick , only five miles from Tipton ; and Dorothea , who had on her bonnet ...
... nature to which every variety in experience is an epoch . It was three o'clock in the beautiful breezy autumn day when Mr Casaubon drove off to his Rectory at Lowick , only five miles from Tipton ; and Dorothea , who had on her bonnet ...
Pagina 38
Mary Ann Evans. public feeling required the meagreness of nature to be dissimulated by tall barricades of frizzed curls and bows , never surpassed by any great race except the Feejeean . This was a trait of Miss Brooke's asceticism . But ...
Mary Ann Evans. public feeling required the meagreness of nature to be dissimulated by tall barricades of frizzed curls and bows , never surpassed by any great race except the Feejeean . This was a trait of Miss Brooke's asceticism . But ...
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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.