The Essays of "George Eliot."Funk & Wagnalls, 1883 - 288 pages |
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... society , she is surpassed by Bul- wer and Trollope ; if she be called a satirist of society , Thack- eray is her superior ; if she intends to illustrate the absurdity of behavior , she is eclipsed by Dickens ; but if the analysis of ...
... society , she is surpassed by Bul- wer and Trollope ; if she be called a satirist of society , Thack- eray is her superior ; if she intends to illustrate the absurdity of behavior , she is eclipsed by Dickens ; but if the analysis of ...
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... Society shudders with hypocritical horror , especially in the presence of poor Mrs. Bulstrode , who " should have some hint given her , that if she knew the truth she would have less complacency in her bon- net . " Society when it is ...
... Society shudders with hypocritical horror , especially in the presence of poor Mrs. Bulstrode , who " should have some hint given her , that if she knew the truth she would have less complacency in her bon- net . " Society when it is ...
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... society ? " 66 The lancet works impartially , because the hand that holds it is the hand of a conscientious artist . She will endure the severest test you can apply to an artist in fiction . She does not betray any religious bias in her ...
... society ? " 66 The lancet works impartially , because the hand that holds it is the hand of a conscientious artist . She will endure the severest test you can apply to an artist in fiction . She does not betray any religious bias in her ...
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... society of France in the seventeenth century , they are refined by the influence of Spanish chivalry , and controlled by the spirit of Italian causticity . The dreamy and fantastic girl was awakened to reality by the experience of ...
... society of France in the seventeenth century , they are refined by the influence of Spanish chivalry , and controlled by the spirit of Italian causticity . The dreamy and fantastic girl was awakened to reality by the experience of ...
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... society and the pursuits of ambition ; and in the first quarter of the seventeenth century there were already several hôtels in Paris , varying in social position from the closest proximity of the Court to the debatable ground of the ...
... society and the pursuits of ambition ; and in the first quarter of the seventeenth century there were already several hôtels in Paris , varying in social position from the closest proximity of the Court to the debatable ground of the ...
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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.