Middlemarch, a study of provincial lifeClassic Books, 1909 |
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... lives . " Mr. Oscar Browning calls it " a great prose epic " and considers that it " gives George Eliot the chiefest claim to stand by the side of Shakespeare . " PRELUDE BOOK CONTENTS L - MISS BROOKE · II . INTRODUCTION.
... lives . " Mr. Oscar Browning calls it " a great prose epic " and considers that it " gives George Eliot the chiefest claim to stand by the side of Shakespeare . " PRELUDE BOOK CONTENTS L - MISS BROOKE · II . INTRODUCTION.
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... give lustre to his piety , and having views of his own which were to be more clearly ascer- tained on the publication of his book . His very name carried an impressiveness hardly to be measured with- out a precise chronology of ...
... give lustre to his piety , and having views of his own which were to be more clearly ascer- tained on the publication of his book . His very name carried an impressiveness hardly to be measured with- out a precise chronology of ...
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... give them draining - tiles , you know . But your fancy farming will not do the most expensive sort of whistle you can buy : you may as well keep a pack of hounds . " " Surely , " said Dorothea , " it is better to spend money in finding ...
... give them draining - tiles , you know . But your fancy farming will not do the most expensive sort of whistle you can buy : you may as well keep a pack of hounds . " " Surely , " said Dorothea , " it is better to spend money in finding ...
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... you , you are very good . I mean to give up riding . I shall not ride any more , " said Dorothea , urged to this brusque resolution by a little annoyance that Sir James would be soliciting her attention when she wanted to [ 21 ] MISS ...
... you , you are very good . I mean to give up riding . I shall not ride any more , " said Dorothea , urged to this brusque resolution by a little annoyance that Sir James would be soliciting her attention when she wanted to [ 21 ] MISS ...
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... give up from some high , generous motive . ” " No , indeed , not exactly . I did not say that of my- self , " answered Dorothea , reddening . Unlike Celia , she rarely blushed , and only from high delight or anger . At this moment she ...
... give up from some high , generous motive . ” " No , indeed , not exactly . I did not say that of my- self , " answered Dorothea , reddening . Unlike Celia , she rarely blushed , and only from high delight or anger . At this moment she ...
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admiration agreeable Bambridge beautiful believe better Brooke's brother brother Solomon Bulstrode Bulstrode's Cadwallader Caleb called Casau Casaubon Celia certainly clergyman clever consciousness cottages dear delight Dodo Doro Dorothea everything expect eyes Farebrother father Featherstone feeling fellow felt fond Frank Hawley Fred Fred's friends gentleman George Eliot girl give hand hear hope horse HUMPHRY DAVY husband imagine kind knew Ladislaw lady laugh less living looked Lowick Lydgate Lydgate's mamma marriage marry Mary Garth mean ment Middlemarch Minchin mind Miss Brooke morning mother Naumann never notion object once opinion perhaps physiognomy poor pounds question reason Rome Rosamond seemed sense sister smile sort speak Stone Court suppose sure talk Tamburlaine tell thea things thought tion Tipton tone turned Tyke uncle usual Vicar Vincy Vincy's vote Waule wife wish woman words Wrench young
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36. oldal - The intensity of her religious disposition, the coercion it exercised over her life, was but one aspect of a nature altogether ardent, theoretic, and intellectually consequent : and with such a nature, struggling in the bands of a narrow teaching, hemmed in by a social life which seemed nothing but a labyrinth of petty courses, a walledin maze of small paths that led no whither, the outcome was sure to strike others as at once exaggeration and inconsistency.
366. 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.
10. oldal - ... from that wretched mistake he made in matrimony; or John Milton when his blindness had come on; or any of the other great men whose odd habits it would have been glorious piety to endure; but an amiable handsome baronet, who said "Exactly" to her remarks even when she expressed uncertainty, - how could he affect her as a lover?
9. oldal - Most men thought her bewitching when she was on horseback. She loved the fresh air and the various aspects of the country, and when her eyes and cheeks glowed with mingled pleasure she looked very little like a devotee.
131. oldal - But deeds and language such as men do use, And persons such as comedy would choose, When she would show an image of the times, And sport with human follies, not with crimes.
219. oldal - Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.
19. oldal - She spoke with more energy than is expected of so young a lady, but Sir James had appealed to her. He was accustomed to do so, and she had often thought that she could urge him to many good actions when he was her brother-in-law. Mr. Casaubon turned his eyes very markedly on Dorothea while she was speaking, and seemed to observe her newly. " Young ladies don't understand political economy, you know,
389. oldal - ... is awkwardly driven by their impulses, instead of being steered by wary grace and propriety. Do you imagine that her rapid forecast and rumination concerning house-furniture and society were ever discernible in her conversation, even with her mamma? On the contrary, she would have expressed the prettiest surprise and disapprobation if she had heard that another young lady had been detected in that immodest prematureness — indeed, would probably have disbelieved in its possibility. For Rosamond...
26. oldal - ... cleverness he delighted. Why not? A man's mind — what there is of it — has always the advantage of being masculine, — as the smallest birch-tree is of a higher kind than the most soaring palm — and even his ignorance is of a sounder quality. Sir James might not have originated this estimate; but a kind Providence furnishes the limpest personality with a little gum or starch in the form of tradition.
322. oldal - Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.