 | Kevin Z. Moore - 1993 - 344 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... | |
 | Penelope D. Johnson - 2009 - 310 pagini
...been bom 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." 2. Barbara A. Hanawalt, ed., Women and Work in Preindustrial Europe (Bloomington: Indiana University... | |
 | Nehama Aschkenasy - 1994 - 292 pagini
...for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of far-resonant action; perhaps a life of mistakes, the offspring of a certain spiritual grandeur ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity."13 In contrast to the explicitness of the nineteenth-century woman writer, we have the... | |
 | Susan Cahill - 1996 - 448 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;... | |
 | R. L. Brett - 1997 - 280 pagini
...Theresas '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'. Dorothea Brooke is a high-minded young woman who seeks to serve a cause by marrying the dessicated... | |
 | Caroline J. Simon - 1997 - 228 pagini
...been born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was 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 cireumstance they tried to shape their thought and deed in noble agreement;... | |
 | George Eliot - 1909 - 430 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...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... | |
 | Kali Israel - 2002 - 380 pagini
...wherein there was a constant unfolding of far-resonant action; perhaps only a life of mistakes . . . perhaps a tragic failure which found no sacred poet and sank unwept into oblivion. 46 In Adam Bede, too, Eliot wrote of the necessity of stories to make desires: "Hetty had never read... | |
 | George Eliot - 2002 - 130 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...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 Stern - 2002 - 328 pagini
...Middlemarch by contrasting the "epic life" of Saint Theresa with that of the "many Theresas" who found only "a life of mistakes, the offspring of a certain...grandeur ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity." The contraction of epic yearning continued: Virginia Woolf's women yearn for little more than a room... | |
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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... 
