Middlemarch, by George Eliot, Volumul 11873 |
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... thought and deed in noble agreement ; but after all , to common eyes their struggles seemed mere inconsistency and formlessness ; for these later - born Theresas were helped by no coherent social faith and order which could perform the ...
... thought and deed in noble agreement ; but after all , to common eyes their struggles seemed mere inconsistency and formlessness ; for these later - born Theresas were helped by no coherent social faith and order which could perform the ...
Pagina 5
... brick floor by the side of a sick labourer and prayed fervidly as if she thought herself living in the time of the Apostles - who had strange whims of fasting like a Papist , and of sitting up BOOK I .-- MISS BROOKE . 5.
... brick floor by the side of a sick labourer and prayed fervidly as if she thought herself living in the time of the Apostles - who had strange whims of fasting like a Papist , and of sitting up BOOK I .-- MISS BROOKE . 5.
Pagina 6
... , though prejudiced against her by this alarming hearsay , found that she had a charm unaccountably recon- cilable with it . Most men thought her bewitching when she was on horseback . She loved the fresh 6 MIDDLEMARCH .
... , though prejudiced against her by this alarming hearsay , found that she had a charm unaccountably recon- cilable with it . Most men thought her bewitching when she was on horseback . She loved the fresh 6 MIDDLEMARCH .
Pagina 10
... thought of them since you locked them up in the cabinet here . " " Well , dear , we should never wear them , you know . " Dorothea spoke in a full cordial tone , half caressing , half explanatory . She had her pencil in her hand , and ...
... thought of them since you locked them up in the cabinet here . " " Well , dear , we should never wear them , you know . " Dorothea spoke in a full cordial tone , half caressing , half explanatory . She had her pencil in her hand , and ...
Pagina 14
... thought was trying to justify her delight in the colours by merging them in her mystic religious joy . " You would like those , Dorothea , " said Celia , rather falteringly , beginning to think with wonder that her sister showed some ...
... thought was trying to justify her delight in the colours by merging them in her mystic religious joy . " You would like those , Dorothea , " said Celia , rather falteringly , beginning to think with wonder that her sister showed some ...
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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.