 | Richard Holt Hutton - 1900 - 333 pagini
...distracted life. She set herself to paint by no means a tragedy, but what she herself described as "a life of mistakes, the offspring of a certain spiritual...grandeur, ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity." And what she lost in beauty and in grandeur of effect by this deliberate aim she gained in ease, and... | |
 | Thomas Bird Mosher - 1905
...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;... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton - 1906 - 417 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...opportunity ; perhaps a tragic failure which found no poet, and sank unwept into oblivion." And she adds, " Some have felt that their blundering lives are... | |
 | George Eliot - 1908
...been born who found for themselves no «pic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of farresonant 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... | |
 | George Eliot - 1910
...a life of mistakes, the pffspring_of__a_certain spiritual grandeur ill-matched with the meanneSS-of opportunity; perhaps a tragic failure which 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 Reichert - 1912 - 131 pagini
...been born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was constant unfolding of farresonant 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;... | |
 | Lina Wright Berle - 1917 - 174 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...a certain spiritual grandeur ill-matched with the measures of opportunity, perhaps a tragic failure which found no sacred poet and sank unwept into oblivion.... | |
 | Elizabeth McCracken - 1918 - 127 pagini
...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... | |
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...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;... | |
 | Kevin Z. Moore - 1993 - 334 pagini
...been born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of farresonant action; perhaps only a life of mistakes, the offspring...ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity; perhaps tragic failure which found no sacred poet and sank unwept into oblivion" (M, 25). Eliot's "life of... | |
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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... 
