The Essays of "George Eliot."Funk & Wagnalls, 1883 - 288 pages |
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... to which we have just referred- " to ignore this stage in George Eliot's mental development would be to lose one of the connecting links in her history . " Fur- thermore , " nothing in her fictions excels the style PREFACE,
... to which we have just referred- " to ignore this stage in George Eliot's mental development would be to lose one of the connecting links in her history . " Fur- thermore , " nothing in her fictions excels the style PREFACE,
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... mental philosophers who are ready with the best re- ceipts for avoiding all mistakes of the kind . " 66 66 How simple the motive of the Rev. Edward Casaubon in popping the question to Dorothea Brooke , how complex her motives in ...
... mental philosophers who are ready with the best re- ceipts for avoiding all mistakes of the kind . " 66 66 How simple the motive of the Rev. Edward Casaubon in popping the question to Dorothea Brooke , how complex her motives in ...
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... mental processes by which he " explained the gratification of his desires into satisfactory agreement with his beliefs . " If there were no Dorothea in " Middlemarch " the character of Bulstrode would give that novel a place by itself ...
... mental processes by which he " explained the gratification of his desires into satisfactory agreement with his beliefs . " If there were no Dorothea in " Middlemarch " the character of Bulstrode would give that novel a place by itself ...
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... mental exercises calling him- self naught , laid hold on redemption and went on in his course of instrumentality . He was " carrying on two distinct lives " -a religious one and a wicked one . " His religious activity could not be ...
... mental exercises calling him- self naught , laid hold on redemption and went on in his course of instrumentality . He was " carrying on two distinct lives " -a religious one and a wicked one . " His religious activity could not be ...
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... mental habit creating a vocabulary . The method of thought produces the form of rhetoric . Some of the sentences are mental landscapes . The meaning seems to be in motion on the page . It is elusive from its very subtlety . It is more ...
... mental habit creating a vocabulary . The method of thought produces the form of rhetoric . Some of the sentences are mental landscapes . The meaning seems to be in motion on the page . It is elusive from its very subtlety . It is more ...
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Page 97 - Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.
Page 19 - If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
Page 256 - Is merely as the working of a sea Before a calm, that rocks itself to rest : For He, whose car the winds are, and the clouds The dust that waits upon His sultry march, When sin hath moved Him, and His wrath is hot, Shall visit earth in mercy ; shall descend Propitious in His chariot paved with love : And what His storms have blasted and defaced For man's revolt, shall with a smile repair.
Page 238 - Here is firm footing; here is solid rock ! This can support us ; all is sea besides ; Sinks under us; bestorms, and then devours. His hand the good man fastens on the skies, And bids earth roll, nor feels her idle whirl.
Page 133 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye ! — Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be ; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me...
Page 75 - Count o'er the joys thine hours have seen, Count o'er thy days from anguish free, And know, whatever thou hast been, 'Tis something better not to be.
Page 75 - Though gay companions o'er the bowl Dispel awhile the sense of ill: Though pleasure fires the maddening soul, The heart — the heart is lonely still!
Page 241 - Strong death, alone can heave the massy bar, This gross impediment of clay remove, And make us embryos of existence free From real life ; but little more remote Is he, not yet a candidate for light, The future embryo, slumbering in his sire. Embryos we must be till we burst the shell, • . Yon ambient azure shell, and spring to life, The life of gods, O transport ! and of man.
Page 22 - There is a terrible coercion in our deeds which may first turn the honest man into a deceiver, and then reconcile him to the change; for this reason —that the second wrong presents itself to him in the guise of the only practicable right.