The Works of George Eliot, Volume 20Little, Brown,, 1900 |
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... INFLUENCE OF RATIONALISM : LECKY'S HISTORY THE NATURAL HISTORY OF GERMAN LIFE : RIEHL 55 Westminster Review , 1856 . 92 Westminster Review , 1855 . 123 Fortnightly Review , 1865 . Westminster Review , 1856 . THREE MONTHS IN WEIMAR · 139 ...
... INFLUENCE OF RATIONALISM : LECKY'S HISTORY THE NATURAL HISTORY OF GERMAN LIFE : RIEHL 55 Westminster Review , 1856 . 92 Westminster Review , 1855 . 123 Fortnightly Review , 1865 . Westminster Review , 1856 . THREE MONTHS IN WEIMAR · 139 ...
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... influence of his grand and virtuous soul - for George , he says , rivals the angels : - " George , who in foes can soft affections raise , And charm envenomed satire into praise . Nor human rage alone his pow'r perceives , But the mad ...
... influence of his grand and virtuous soul - for George , he says , rivals the angels : - " George , who in foes can soft affections raise , And charm envenomed satire into praise . Nor human rage alone his pow'r perceives , But the mad ...
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... influence which else I may possibly have on some other occasions . Your fortune and your reputation set you above the need of advancement ; and your sentiments above that concern for it on your own account , which , on that of the ...
... influence which else I may possibly have on some other occasions . Your fortune and your reputation set you above the need of advancement ; and your sentiments above that concern for it on your own account , which , on that of the ...
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... influence on the welfare of communities and nations , there is the same unselfish warmth of feeling , the same scrupulous truthfulness . He is never vague in his remonstrance or his satire ; but puts his finger on some particular vice ...
... influence on the welfare of communities and nations , there is the same unselfish warmth of feeling , the same scrupulous truthfulness . He is never vague in his remonstrance or his satire ; but puts his finger on some particular vice ...
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... influence of wit . Indeed it may be said that there is no really fine writing in which wit has not an implicit , if not an ex- plicit action . The wit may never rise to the surface , it may never flame out into a witticism ; but it ...
... influence of wit . Indeed it may be said that there is no really fine writing in which wit has not an implicit , if not an ex- plicit action . The wit may never rise to the surface , it may never flame out into a witticism ; but it ...
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Page 86 - 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 122 - 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 85 - 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 18 - 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 53 - 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 53 - One song employs all nations; and all cry, * Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us !* The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks Shout to each other, and the mountain-tops From distant mountains catch the flying joy ; Till, nation after nation taught the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous Hosanna round.
Page 101 - 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 35 - O ye blest scenes of permanent delight! Full above measure! lasting beyond bound! A perpetuity of bliss is bliss. Could you, so rich in rapture, fear an end. That ghastly thought would drink up all your joy, And quite unparadise the realms of light.
Page 117 - Christian gives to the poor, not only because he has sensibilities like other men, but because, ' inasmuch as ye did it to the least of these my brethren, ye did it unto me.
Page 216 - ... philosopher, who wants to know how he got there. The only stories life presents to us in an orderly way are those of our autobiography, or the career of our companions from our childhood upwards, or perhaps of our own children. But it is a great art to make a connected strictly relevant narrative of such careers as we can recount from the beginning. In these cases the sequence of associations is almost sure to overmaster the sense of proportion. Such narratives ab...