Middlemarch, a study of provincial lifeClassic Books, 1909 |
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13. oldal
... took up the necklace and fastened it round her sister's neck , where it fitted almost as closely as a bracelet ; but the circle suited the Henrietta - Maria style of Celia's head and neck , and she could see that it did , in the pier ...
... took up the necklace and fastened it round her sister's neck , where it fitted almost as closely as a bracelet ; but the circle suited the Henrietta - Maria style of Celia's head and neck , and she could see that it did , in the pier ...
15. oldal
... took up her pencil without removing the jewels , and still looking at them . She thought of often having them by her , to feed her eye at these little fountains of pure colour . " Shall you wear them in company ? " said Celia , who was ...
... took up her pencil without removing the jewels , and still looking at them . She thought of often having them by her , to feed her eye at these little fountains of pure colour . " Shall you wear them in company ? " said Celia , who was ...
20. oldal
... took in all the new ideas at one time - human perfectibility , now . But some say , history moves in circles ; and that may be very well argued ; I have argued it myself . The fact is , human reason may carry you a little too far - over ...
... took in all the new ideas at one time - human perfectibility , now . But some say , history moves in circles ; and that may be very well argued ; I have argued it myself . The fact is , human reason may carry you a little too far - over ...
21. oldal
... took an opportunity of saying . " I should have thought you would enter a little into the pleasures of hunting . I wish you would let me send over a chestnut horse for you to try . It has been trained for a lady . I saw you on Saturday ...
... took an opportunity of saying . " I should have thought you would enter a little into the pleasures of hunting . I wish you would let me send over a chestnut horse for you to try . It has been trained for a lady . I saw you on Saturday ...
32. oldal
... took him on this severe mental scamper was not only an amiable host , but a landholder and custos rotulorum . Was his endur- ance aided also by the reflection that Mr. Brooke was the uncle of Dorothea ? Certainly he seemed more and more ...
... took him on this severe mental scamper was not only an amiable host , but a landholder and custos rotulorum . Was his endur- ance aided also by the reflection that Mr. Brooke was the uncle of Dorothea ? Certainly he seemed more and more ...
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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.