 | George Eliot - 1883 - 302 pagini
...all her brains and " plans," a failure ; why " the many Theresas find for themselves no epic life, only a life of mistakes, the offspring of a certain...grandeur ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity." You must search these marvellous studies in motives for the key to the blunders of " the blundering... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1883 - 300 pagini
...all her brains and " plans," a failure ; why " the many Theresas find for themselves no epic life, only a life of mistakes, the offspring of a certain...grandeur ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity." You must search these marvellous studies in motives for the key to the blunders of " the blundering... | |
 | Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - 1884 - 536 pagini
...been born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of far-resonant action; perhaps only a life of mistakes, the offspring...found no sacred poet, and sank unwept into oblivion. With dim lights and tangled circumstances, they tried to shape their thought and deed in noble agreement;... | |
 | Mathilde Blind - 1885 - 332 pagini
...been born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of far-resonant action ; perhaps" only a life- of mistakes, the offspring...found no sacred poet, and sank unwept into oblivion. With dim lights and tangled circumstance they tried to shape their thought and deed in noble agreement... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1134 pagini
...been born who fonnd for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of far-resonant But was It such? It was. Where tlion art gone, Adieus...but meet ihec on that peaceful shore. The parting fonnd no sacred poet and sank unwept into oblivion. With dim lights and tangled circumstances they... | |
 | Lillian Rozell Messenger - 1885 - 144 pagini
...approval: for I would That thine should be the world's great voice to me." iii FRAGMENTS FROM AN OLD INN. " Only a life of mistakes, the offspring of a certain...ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity ; perhaps tragic failure, which found no sacred poet, and sank unwept into oblivion." In the year 18—, after... | |
 | 1885 - 612 pagini
...is unsurpassed that element of pathos which we have found to underlie these novels. She speaks of " a life of mistakes, the offspring of a certain spiritual...grandeur ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity ; " of those whose ardor has " alternated between a vague ideal and the common yearning of womanhood,... | |
 | 1890 - 612 pagini
...born, M-ho found for themselves no epic life, wherein there was a constant unfolding of far-resonant action ; perhaps only a life of mistakes, the offspring...; perhaps a tragic failure, which found no sacred port and sank unwept into oblivion. With dim lights and tangled circumstances, they tried to shape... | |
 | Julia Magruder - 1897 - 278 pagini
...there were certain expressions in it which she could not let go. Over and over she read those words : " Perhaps only a life of mistakes, the offspring of a certain spiritual grandeur ill matched with the meanness of opportunity; perhaps a tragic failure which found no sacred poet and... | |
 | Vida Dutton Scudder - 1898 - 346 pagini
...born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was al constant unfolding of far-resonant action : perhaps only a life of mistakes, the offspring...found no sacred poet, and sank unwept into oblivion. With dim lights and tangled circumstance, they tried to shape their thought and deed in noble agreement;... | |
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Many Theresas have been born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of far-resonant action ; perhaps only a life of mistakes, the offspring of a certain spiritual grandeur ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity... 
