 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...  Middlemarch, by George Eliot - Pagina 351de Mary Ann Evans - 1873Vizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | 1926 - 538 pagini
...(12 S. xii. 353: cxlvi. 398).— The passage is from • Middle march ' and runs : — " If we had » keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life,...quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity." HAHMATOFEBOS. /CHENEY (cli. 100, 135. 142. 177).— The folio*\J ing references to this name appear... | |
 | 1872 - 444 pagini
...keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and 'he squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar...As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded intb. stupidity.— George Elliott. I think half the troubles for which men go slouching in prayer... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1873 - 826 pagini
...neighbor to expect the utmost there, however little he may have got from us." — Vol. i., p. 144. " We do not expect people to be deeply moved by what...of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well-wadded with stupidity." — Vol. i., ' P- 35 «• " Character is not cut in marble — it is... | |
 | George Eliot, Alexander Main - 1873 - 444 pagini
...whether that of a shrimp-pool or of deeper waters — which afterwards subsides into cheerful peace. That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact...quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity. To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any... | |
 | 1874 - 900 pagini
...tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotions of mankind; and perhaps our frames could hardly bear...quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity." Had George Eliot been gifted with faith as with reason, she could not have written that paragraph without... | |
 | George Eliot - 1875 - 460 pagini
...that of a shrimp-pool or of deeper waters — which afterwards subsides into cheerful peace. — o — That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact...quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity. To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any... | |
 | 1878 - 598 pagini
...squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side, of silence," and that " As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity. " Jin San FrancUeo Mlcroncoplcml Society. — A regular meeting of the San Francisco MicroscopiI cal... | |
 | 1881 - 902 pagini
...tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotions of mankind ; and perhaps our frames could hardly bear...quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity." — (xx.) " Lydgate was at present too ill acquainted with disaster to enter into the pathos of a lot... | |
 | Richard Acland Armstrong - 1881 - 902 pagini
...tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotions of mankind ; and perhaps our frames could hardly bear...quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity." — (xx.) " Lydgate was at present too ill acquainted with disaster to enter into the pathos of a lot... | |
 | 1881 - 430 pagini
...be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that ro;>r that lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity." Who does not at once recognize " that mixture of pushing forward and being 'pushed forward" as "the... | |
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