...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...certainly very na'ive, with all her alleged cleverness. Celia,.whose mind had never been thought too powerful, saw the emptiness of other people's pretensions...

...difficulties will be solved by the help of a little Latin and Greek. " Perhaps even Hebrew might be necessary — at least the alphabet and a few roots...judge soundly on the social duties of the Christian." She marries Mr. Casaubon, and of course is speedily undeceived. But, curiously enough, the process...

...her ardent aspirations for something better than a humdrum domestic life, with her intense longing " to- arrive at the core of things and judge soundly on the social duties of the Christian," is the central figure. How one pities her in her self-deception about that soulless old pedant, Casaubon,...

...lo CoTJCittaTe indifference to the cottages with zeal for the glory ? Perhaps even Hebrew might be necessary — at least the alphabet and a few roots...arrive at the core of things, and judge soundly on the'social duties of the Christian.! And she had not reached that point of renunciation at which she...

...difficulties will be solved by the help of a little Latin and Greek. ' Perhaps even Hebrew might be necessary — at least the alphabet and a few roots...judge soundly on the social duties of the Christian.' She marries Mr. Casaubon, and of course is speedily undeceived. But, curiously enough, the process...

...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...have been satisfied with having a wise husband : she wishedjjpoor child, to be wise herself. Miss Brooke was certainly very na'ive with all her alleged...

...thoughts — here, for example, where she is clearly the niece of Mr Brooke : Perhaps even Hebrew might be necessary — at least the alphabet and a few roots...judge soundly on the social duties of the Christian. (i, 52) But if we continue reading that paragraph, we find a complexity of ironies that are by no means...

...desire. The narrator sees what Dorothea is after, and what is going wrong with Dorothea's judgment: "She had not reached that point of renunciation at...certainly very naive with all her alleged cleverness" (42). The irony of this sympathetic judgment is in the fact that Dorothea should be wishing to be wise...

...but this time using a material process verb reach, followed by the very explicit poor child. . . . she had not reached that point of renunciation at...husband; she wished, poor child, to be wise herself. There is a further distancing of the narrator from the character in the use of her second name. Miss...

...Dorothea's fantasies of rescuing the lonely Milton and preserving his eyes, however, lies a deeper wish: "She had not reached that point of renunciation at...husband: she wished, poor child, to be wise herself" (Mm, 63). Dorothea marries for knowledge. Ironically, although she never attains scholarly knowledge,...