... how could she be confident that one-roomed cottages were not for the glory of God, when men who knew the classics appeared to conciliate indifference to the cottages with zeal for the glory ? Perhaps even Hebrew might be necessary — at least the... Middlemarch, by George Eliot - 107. oldalszerző: Mary Ann Evans - 1873Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
| Mary Ann Evans - 1873 - 308 oldal
...for the glory ? Perhaps even Hebrew might be necessary—at least the alphabet and a few roots—in order to arrive at the core of things, and judge soundly...certainly very na'ive, with all her alleged cleverness. Celia,.whose mind had never been thought too powerful, saw the emptiness of other people's pretensions... | |
| George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1881 - 802 oldal
...difficulties will be solved by the help of a little Latin and Greek. " Perhaps even Hebrew might be necessary — at least the alphabet and a few roots...judge soundly on the social duties of the Christian." She marries Mr. Casaubon, and of course is speedily undeceived. But, curiously enough, the process... | |
| 1881 - 1180 oldal
...her ardent aspirations for something better than a humdrum domestic life, with her intense longing " to- arrive at the core of things and judge soundly on the social duties of the Christian," is the central figure. How one pities her in her self-deception about that soulless old pedant, Casaubon,... | |
| George Eliot - 1883 - 756 oldal
...lo CoTJCittaTe indifference to the cottages with zeal for the glory ? Perhaps even Hebrew might be necessary — at least the alphabet and a few roots...arrive at the core of things, and judge soundly on the'social duties of the Christian.! And she had not reached that point of renunciation at which she... | |
| Leslie Stephen - 1892 - 384 oldal
...difficulties will be solved by the help of a little Latin and Greek. ' Perhaps even Hebrew might be necessary — at least the alphabet and a few roots...judge soundly on the social duties of the Christian.' She marries Mr. Casaubon, and of course is speedily undeceived. But, curiously enough, the process... | |
| George Eliot - 1906 - 690 oldal
...for the glory? Perhaps even Hebrew might be necessary—at least the alphabet and a few roots—in order to arrive at the core of things, and judge soundly...have been satisfied with having a wise husband : she wishedjjpoor child, to be wise herself. Miss Brooke was certainly very na'ive with all her alleged... | |
| 134 oldal
...thoughts — here, for example, where she is clearly the niece of Mr Brooke : Perhaps even Hebrew might be necessary — at least the alphabet and a few roots...judge soundly on the social duties of the Christian. (i, 52) But if we continue reading that paragraph, we find a complexity of ironies that are by no means... | |
| JoAnna Stephens Mink, Janet Doubler Ward - 1991 - 186 oldal
...desire. The narrator sees what Dorothea is after, and what is going wrong with Dorothea's judgment: "She had not reached that point of renunciation at...certainly very naive with all her alleged cleverness" (42). The irony of this sympathetic judgment is in the fact that Dorothea should be wishing to be wise... | |
| Joanna Thornborrow, Shân Wareing - 1998 - 286 oldal
...but this time using a material process verb reach, followed by the very explicit poor child. . . . she had not reached that point of renunciation at...husband; she wished, poor child, to be wise herself. There is a further distancing of the narrator from the character in the use of her second name. Miss... | |
| Anna K. Nardo - 2003 - 292 oldal
...Dorothea's fantasies of rescuing the lonely Milton and preserving his eyes, however, lies a deeper wish: "She had not reached that point of renunciation at...husband: she wished, poor child, to be wise herself" (Mm, 63). Dorothea marries for knowledge. Ironically, although she never attains scholarly knowledge,... | |
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