The Works of George Eliot, Volume 20Little, Brown,, 1900 |
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... social conditions , may be considered as the natural history of the race . Let us , then , for a moment im- agine ourselves , as students of this natural history , " dredg- ing " the first half of the eighteenth century in search of ...
... social conditions , may be considered as the natural history of the race . Let us , then , for a moment im- agine ourselves , as students of this natural history , " dredg- ing " the first half of the eighteenth century in search of ...
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... social enjoyment . " His wit , " wrote August Lewald , " is a perpetual gushing fountain ; he throws off the most delicious descriptions with amazing facility , and sketches the most comic characters in conver- sation . " Such a man ...
... social enjoyment . " His wit , " wrote August Lewald , " is a perpetual gushing fountain ; he throws off the most delicious descriptions with amazing facility , and sketches the most comic characters in conver- sation . " Such a man ...
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George Eliot. as the enemy of true beauty in Art , and of social well - being . Now , however , it was said that Heine had recanted all his heresies ; but from the fact that visitors to his sick - room brought away very various ...
George Eliot. as the enemy of true beauty in Art , and of social well - being . Now , however , it was said that Heine had recanted all his heresies ; but from the fact that visitors to his sick - room brought away very various ...
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George Eliot. with the high complexity of the causes at work in social evo- lution ; but he frequently writes as if he had never yet distin- guished between the complexity of the conditions that produce prevalent states of mind , and the ...
George Eliot. with the high complexity of the causes at work in social evo- lution ; but he frequently writes as if he had never yet distin- guished between the complexity of the conditions that produce prevalent states of mind , and the ...
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... social theories . Where , in our picture exhibitions , shall we find a group of true peasantry ? What English artist even attempts to rival in truthfulness such studies of popular life as the pictures of Teniers or the ragged boys of ...
... social theories . Where , in our picture exhibitions , shall we find a group of true peasantry ? What English artist even attempts to rival in truthfulness such studies of popular life as the pictures of Teniers or the ragged boys of ...
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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...