Middlemarch, by George Eliot, Volumul 11873 |
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Pagina 2
... first item to be deducted from , when any margin was required for expenses more distinctive of rank . Such reasons would have been enough to account for plain dress , quite apart from religious feeling ; 2 MIDDLEMARCH .
... first item to be deducted from , when any margin was required for expenses more distinctive of rank . Such reasons would have been enough to account for plain dress , quite apart from religious feeling ; 2 MIDDLEMARCH .
Pagina 13
... like scent . I sup- pose that is the reason why gems are used as spiritual emblems in the Revelation of St John . They look like fragments of heaven . I think 1 that emerald is more beautiful than any of them BOOK I. - MISS BROOKE . 13.
... like scent . I sup- pose that is the reason why gems are used as spiritual emblems in the Revelation of St John . They look like fragments of heaven . I think 1 that emerald is more beautiful than any of them BOOK I. - MISS BROOKE . 13.
Pagina 20
... reason , and thinking of the book only . " I have little leisure for such literature just now . I have been using up my eyesight on old characters lately ; the fact is , I want a reader for my evenings ; but I am fastidious in voices ...
... reason , and thinking of the book only . " I have little leisure for such literature just now . I have been using up my eyesight on old characters lately ; the fact is , I want a reader for my evenings ; but I am fastidious in voices ...
Pagina 22
... reasons for choosing not to do what is very agreeable , " said Dorothea . Mr Brooke was speaking at the same time , but it was evident that Mr Casaubon was observing Dorothea , and she was aware of it . " Exactly , " said Sir James ...
... reasons for choosing not to do what is very agreeable , " said Dorothea . Mr Brooke was speaking at the same time , but it was evident that Mr Casaubon was observing Dorothea , and she was aware of it . " Exactly , " said Sir James ...
Pagina 24
... reason for deliver- ing this opinion , whereas the remark lay in his mind as lightly as the broken wing of an insect among all the other fragments there , and a chance current had sent it alighting on her . When the two girls were in ...
... reason for deliver- ing this opinion , whereas the remark lay in his mind as lightly as the broken wing of an insect among all the other fragments there , and a chance current had sent it alighting on her . When the two girls were in ...
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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.