 | Bernard J. Paris - 2003 - 240 pagini
...in which the medium for heroic deeds no longer exists, especially for women. As a result, she leads "a life of mistakes, the offspring of a certain spiritual...grandeur ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity." This formula not only excuses Dorothea's mistakes but makes them the sign of her noble, ardent nature.... | |
 | Stanley Cavell - 2005 - 432 pagini
...with a new time, in which "many Theresas have been born who found for themselves no epic life; . . . perhaps only a life of mistakes, the offspring of...grandeur ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity." That is the opening page; the closing page, adducing in addition Antigone, announces that "the medium... | |
 | John Howard Reid - 2006 - 227 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 off-spring...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;... | |
 | George Eliot - 2006 - 470 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;... | |
 | Simon Dentith - 2006 - 10 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;... | |
 | Gary Saul Morson - 2007 - 300 pagini
...ourselves, lives in an everyday world remote from the faith that would underwrite such saintliness. "Many Theresas have been born who found for themselves no...found no sacred poet and sank unwept into oblivion" (Eliot, 7). Like Prince Andrei, Dorothea gradually learns that meaningful actions are small and prosaic.... | |
 | Gerald Ernest Paul Gillespie, Manfred Engel, Bernard Dieterle - 2008 - 772 pagini
...medium of reality. In Middlemarch, for example, Dorothea Brooks, Will Ladislaw, and Tertius Lydgate, »the offspring of a certain spiritual grandeur ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity« in George Eliot's provincial world in the 183o's, »struggle amidst the conditions of an imperfect... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1873 - 554 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;... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1873 - 478 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. With dim lights and tangled circumstance they tried to shape their thought and deed in noble argument... | |
 | 1973 - 424 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 of a certain spiritual grandeur" (p. 3). In the poem Armgart (1870), George Eliot describes the life of a woman who renounces her lover... | |
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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... 
