 | Thomas Best Woodward - 1874 - 294 oldal
...Middlemarch, where the Author, in a philosophical passage with regard to him, says : — "He [Lydgate] had two selves within him apparently, and they must...accommodate each other and bear reciprocal impediments." 2 The distinction pointed out in this paragraph is a subtle study in itself, and will only be followed... | |
 | 1884 - 742 oldal
...Longformacus. EDINBURGH: T. & T. CLARK, 38 GEORGE STREET. THE JOURNAL OF JURISPRUDENCE. LAW AND MORALITY. " He had two selves within him apparently, and they...plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us." — MIDDLEMABCH. I. We are taught by our daily experience that a man is more than his wants. He is,... | |
 | George Eliot - 1885 - 404 oldal
...falsities or drew our silly conclusions ; or perhaps it came with the vibrations from a woman's glance. Strange that some of us, with quick alternate vision,...plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us. In these matters ho was conscious that his life would bear the closest scrutiny ; and perhaps the consciousness... | |
 | George Eliot - 1900 - 254 oldal
...her, and on asking her to marry him. He knew that this was like the sudden impulse of a madman — incongruous even with his habitual foibles. No matter!...infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold j the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits J us. To have approached Laure with any... | |
 | Cynthia Propper Seton - 1970 - 194 oldal
...fit place for EM Forster's aristocracy of the sensitive, the considerate and the plucky. XI Autonomy Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision,...plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us. GEORGE ELIOT Jenny was three when our last child was due to be born, and it somehow came about in our... | |
 | Martin Price - 1983 - 400 oldal
...proposal to the French actress: He knew that this was like the sudden impulse of a madman—incongruous even with his habitual foibles. No matter! It was...plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us. {15] That "persistent self" is the kind of reality we are at last forced to acknowledge, a necessity... | |
 | Gillian Beer - 1989 - 224 oldal
...seemed to imply secure pathways, channels for the 'persistent self, of which she wrote in Middlemarch: 'Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision,...plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us."3 The persistence of the self is important to her, but the idea of persistence admits also that... | |
 | Michael Black - 1992 - 502 oldal
...adored her, and on asking her to marry him. He knew that this was like the sudden impulse of a madman - incongruous even with his habitual foibles. No matter!...impediments. Strange, that some of us, with quick alternative vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 oldal
...English divine and metaphysical poet. Last lines of Holy Sonnets, no. 1 4. 3 Strange, that some ot" e; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as...DRINKER BOWEN (1897-1973), US author. Adventures of a GEORGE ELIOT (1819-80), English novelist. Middlemerch, bk. 2,ch. 15(1871-72). 4 I understand by this... | |
 | George Eliot - 1994 - 740 oldal
...adored her, and on asking her to marry him. He knew that this was like the sudden impulse of a madman - incongruous even with his habitual foibles. No matter!...he was resolved to do. He had two selves within him apparendy, and they must learn to accommodate each other and bear reciprocal impediments. Strange,... | |
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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. 
