 ... 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...  The Works of George Eliot - Page 216by George Eliot - 1900Full view - About this book
 | George Eliot - 1884 - 402 pages
...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....ovo are summer's-day stories for happy loungers; not 2 A the cup of self - forgetting excitement to the busy who can snatch an hour of entertainment. But... | |
 | George Eliot - 1884 - 404 pages
...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....the sense of proportion. Such narratives ab ovo are summer's -day stories for happy loungers; not 2 A the cup of self -forgetting excitement to the busy... | |
 | Sir Arthur Herbert Dyke Acland - 1891 - 168 pages
...demands upon the writers of ordinary fiction which require their books to be, in George Eliofs phrase, " The cup of self-forgetting excitement to the busy who can snatch an hour of entertainment.^ \st cent. Lytton, Last Days of Pompeii. Routledge 036 „ Whyte-Melville, The Gladiators. Longmans... | |
 | George Eliot - 1894 - 400 pages
...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....necessary account of places and people, passing on quietly towards the more rousing elements of narrative and dramatic presentation, without need of retrospect,... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 454 pages
...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....the sense of proportion. Such narratives ab ovo are summer's day stories for happy loungers; not the cup of selfforgetting excitement to the busy who can... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 462 pages
...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....overmaster the sense of proportion. Such narratives ab avo are summer's day stories for happy loungers; not the cup of selfforgetting excitement to the busy... | |
 | George Eliot - 1901 - 486 pages
...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....the sense of proportion. Such narratives ab ovo are summer's -day stories for happy loungers ; not the cup of self-forgetting excitement to the busy who... | |
 | George Eliot - 1901 - 542 pages
...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....overmaster the sense of proportion. Such narratives ab oi'o are summer's-day stories for happy loungers ; not the cup of self-forgetting excitement to the... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 448 pages
...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....the sense of proportion. Such narratives ab ovo are summer's day stories for happy loungers; not the cup of selfforgetting excitement to the busy who can... | |
 | 1884 - 428 pages
...of our own children. But it is a great art to make a connected, strictly relevant narrative of sucli careers as we can recount from the beginning. In these...sense of proportion. Such narratives, ab ovo, are summer' s-day stories for happy loungers, not the cup of self-forgetting excitement to the busy, who... | |
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