Middlemarch, by George Eliot, Volumul 11873 |
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... tion are really much wider than any one would imagine from the sameness of women's coiffure and the favourite love - stories in prose and verse . Here and there a cygnet is reared uneasily among the ducklings in the brown pond , and ...
... tion are really much wider than any one would imagine from the sameness of women's coiffure and the favourite love - stories in prose and verse . Here and there a cygnet is reared uneasily among the ducklings in the brown pond , and ...
Pagina 3
... tion . Dorothea 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 ...
... tion . Dorothea 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 ...
Pagina 12
... . We need discuss them no longer . There - take away your property . " Celia felt a little hurt . There was a strong assumption of superiority in this Puritanic tolera- tion , hardly less trying to the blond flesh of 12 MIDDLEMARCH .
... . We need discuss them no longer . There - take away your property . " Celia felt a little hurt . There was a strong assumption of superiority in this Puritanic tolera- tion , hardly less trying to the blond flesh of 12 MIDDLEMARCH .
Pagina 13
Mary Ann Evans. tion , hardly less trying to the blond flesh of an unenthusiastic sister than a Puritanic persecution . " But how can I wear ornaments if you , who are the elder sister , will never wear them ? " " Nay , Celia , that is ...
Mary Ann Evans. tion , hardly less trying to the blond flesh of an unenthusiastic sister than a Puritanic persecution . " But how can I wear ornaments if you , who are the elder sister , will never wear them ? " " Nay , Celia , that is ...
Pagina 28
Mary Ann Evans. " Let me hope that you will rescind that resolu tion about the horse , Miss Brooke , " said the per- severing admirer . " I assure you , riding is the most healthy of exercises . " " I am aware of it , " said Dorothea ...
Mary Ann Evans. " Let me hope that you will rescind that resolu tion about the horse , Miss Brooke , " said the per- severing admirer . " I assure you , riding is the most healthy of exercises . " " I am aware of it , " said Dorothea ...
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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.