Middlemarch, by George Eliot, 2. kötet1873 |
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Aunt Julia Bambridge better Bretton's Brooke brother Brother Solomon Bulstrode Cadwallader Caleb Garth called Casau Casaubon Celia Chettam Cincinnatus consciousness Dagley dear delight dislike Dodo Doro Dorothea everything eyes face Farebrother father feeling fellow felt fond Fred Vincy Fred's girl give hand handsome happy hope horse husband imagine Jonah kind knew Ladislaw lady Letty light looked Lowick Lydgate Lydgate's mamma marriage married Mary Garth mean Middlemarch mind Miss Vincy morning mother ness never old Featherstone once opinion papa Peter Featherstone phatic pity Plymdale poor pounds Raffles Rector Rigg Rosamond rotten boroughs round seemed sense silent Sir James smile Solomon sort soul speak Stone Court sure Susan talk tell thing thought tion Tipton told tone Trumbull turned uncle usual Vicar Vincy's walk watch Waule wife wish words Wrench young
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48. oldal - Love seeketh not Itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair." So sung a little Clod of Clay Trodden with the cattle's feet, But a Pebble of the brook Warbled out these metres meet: "Love seeketh only Self to please, To bind another to Its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease, And builds a Hell in Heaven's despite.
70. oldal - ... pregnant little fact. Your pier - glass or extensive surface of polished steel made to be rubbed by a housemaid, will be minutely and multitudinously scratched in all directions ; but place now against it a lighted candle as a centre of illumination, and lo ! the scratches will seem to arrange themselves in a fine series of concentric circles round that little sun.
97. oldal - I found that no genius in another could please me. My unfortunate paradoxes had entirely dried up that source of comfort." — GOLDSMITH. ONE morning, spine weeks after her arrival at Lowick, Dorothea — but why always Dorothea? "Was her point of view the only possible one with regard to this marriage...
181. oldal - ... by this sign that a brother who disliked seeing them while he was living had been prospectively fond of their presence when he should have become a testator if the sign had not been made equivocal by being extended to Mrs. Vincy, whose expense in handsome crape seemed to imply the most presumptuous hopes, aggravated by a bloom of complexion which told pretty plainly that she was not a blood-relation but of that generally objectionable class called wife's kin. We are all of us imaginative in some...
244. oldal - Such self-assurance need not fear the spight Of grudging foes; ne favour seek of friends; But in the stay of her own stedfast might Neither to one herself nor other bends. Most happy she that most assured doth rest, But he most happy who such one loves best.
359. oldal - ... an irritating cautiousness in them ; and when she acquiesced it was a self-approved effort of forbearance. The tenacity with which he strove to hide this inward drama made it the more vivid for him ; as we hear with the more keenness what we wish others not to hear. Instead of wondering at this result of misery in Mr Casaubon, I think it quite ordinary. Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck...
308. oldal - That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is, and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil — widening the skirts of light, and making the struggle with darkness narrow.' ' That is a beautiful mysticism— it is a ' ' Please not to call it by any name,' said Dorothea, putting out her hands entreatingly.
319. oldal - Dagley; but nothing was easier in those times than for an hereditary farmer of his grade to be ignorant, in spite somehow of having a rector in the twin parish who was a gentleman to the backbone, a curate nearer at hand who preached more learnedly than the rector, a landlord who had gone into everything, especially fine art and social improvement, and all the lights of Middlemarch only three miles off.
309. oldal - To love what is good and beautiful when I see it," said Will. " But I am a rebel : I don't feel bound, as you do, to submit to what I don't like.
98. oldal - ... a man of good position should expect and carefully choose a blooming young lady — the younger the better, because more educable and sub48 ' missive — of a rank equal to his own, of religious principles, virtuous disposition, and good understanding.