The Works of George Eliot: Essays. Theophrastus SuchWheeler Publishing Company, 1900 |
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... ground worth striving after seemed to be some Delectable Mountain , whence I could see things in proportions as little as possible determined by that self - partiality which certainly plays a necessary part in our bodily sustenance ...
... ground worth striving after seemed to be some Delectable Mountain , whence I could see things in proportions as little as possible determined by that self - partiality which certainly plays a necessary part in our bodily sustenance ...
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... that the fault of my manuscripts , as of my one published work , is simply flatness , and not that surpassing subtilty which is the prefer- able ground of popular neglect this verdict , however instruct- 16 THEOPHRASTUS SUCH .
... that the fault of my manuscripts , as of my one published work , is simply flatness , and not that surpassing subtilty which is the prefer- able ground of popular neglect this verdict , however instruct- 16 THEOPHRASTUS SUCH .
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George Eliot. able ground of popular neglect this verdict , however instruct- ively expressed , is a portion of earthly discipline of which I will not beseech my friend to be the instrument . Other per- sons , I am aware , have not the ...
George Eliot. able ground of popular neglect this verdict , however instruct- ively expressed , is a portion of earthly discipline of which I will not beseech my friend to be the instrument . Other per- sons , I am aware , have not the ...
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... ground for con- fidence that I should have had a preferable career in such an epoch of society ? An age in which every department has its awkward - squad seems in my mind's eye to suit me better . I might have wandered by the Strymon ...
... ground for con- fidence that I should have had a preferable career in such an epoch of society ? An age in which every department has its awkward - squad seems in my mind's eye to suit me better . I might have wandered by the Strymon ...
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... grounds , as we may hope will be felt by those who will call us ancient ! Otherwise , the looking before and after ... ground of a primitive golden age and continuous degeneracy , I see no rational footing for scorn- ing the whole ...
... grounds , as we may hope will be felt by those who will call us ancient ! Otherwise , the looking before and after ... ground of a primitive golden age and continuous degeneracy , I see no rational footing for scorn- ing the whole ...
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Page 120 - 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 16 - Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ? Thy shaft flew thrice ; and thrice my peace was slain ; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had fill'd her horn.
Page 84 - 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 83 - Nor dare she trust a larger lay, But rather loosens from the lip Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away.
Page 38 - 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 100 - Ay, but to die, and go," alas ! Where all have gone, and all must go ! To be the nothing that I was Ere born to life and living woe ! Count o'er the joys thine hours have seen, Count o'er thy days from anguish free, And know, whatever thou hast been, 'T is something better not to be.
Page 51 - 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 163 - I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh : who are Israelites ; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises : whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, Who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
Page 141 - We have one great novelist who is gifted with the utmost power of rendering the external traits of our town population ; and if he could give us their psychological character — their conceptions of life, and their emotions — with the same truth as their idiom and manners, his books would be the greatest contribution Art has ever made to the awakening of social sympathies.
Page 68 - Lewald, to whom we owe these particulars of his Hamburg life, was left free from the persecution of teaparties. Not, however, from another persecution of genius, nervous headaches, — which some persons, we are told, regarded as an improbable fiction, intended as a pretext for raising a delicate white hand to his forehead.