 Appeals founded on generalizations and statistics require a sympathy ready-made, a moral sentiment already in activity; but a picture of human life such as a great artist can give, surprises even the trivial and the selfish into that attention to what...  The Essays of "George Eliot." - Page 144by George Eliot - 1883 - 288 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Eliot - 1883 - 302 pages
...greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies. Appeals founded on generalizations and...gate which leads from the highway into the first wood he ever saw ; when Hornung paints a group of chimney-sweepers more is done toward linking the higher... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1883 - 300 pages
...greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies. Appeals founded on generalizations and...gate which leads from the highway into the first wood he ever saw ; when Hornung paints a group of chimney-sweepers more is done toward linking the higher... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - 1883 - 454 pages
...great artist can give, surprises even the trivial and the selfish into that attention to what is apart from themselves, which may be called the raw material...yearningly over the gate which leads from the highway into th" first wood he ever saw, when Harnung paints a group of chimney-sweepers, more is done towards... | |
 | George Eliot - 1884 - 404 pages
...great artist can give, surprises even the trivial and the selfish into that attention to what is apart from themselves, which may be called the raw material...gate which leads from the highway into the first wood he ever saw, when Hornung paints a group of chimneysweepers, more is done towards linking the... | |
 | George Eliot - 1884 - 402 pages
...great artist can give, surprises even the trivial and the selfish into that attention to what is apart from themselves, which may be called the raw material...Mucklebackit's cottage, or tells the story of " The Two Drovers,"when Wordsworth sings to us the reverie of " Poor Susan,"when Kingsley shows us Alton... | |
 | George Eliot - 1885 - 328 pages
...great artist can give, surprises even the trivial and the selfish into that attention to what is apart from themselves, which may be called the raw material...gate which leads from the highway into the first wood he ever saw, when Hornung paints a group of chimney-sweepers, more is done towards linking... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1888 - 538 pages
...or novelist is the extension of our sympathies. When Scott takes us into Luckie Mucklebacket's cottage, or tells the story of "The Two Drovers ;...gate which leads from the highway into the first wood he ever saw ; when Hornung paints a group of chimneysweepers, more is done towards linking the higher... | |
 | Joseph Jacobs - 1891 - 192 pages
...artist can give surprises ' even the trivial and the selfish into that ' attention to what is apart from themselves, ' which may be called the raw material...or tells the ' story of The Two Drovers, when Words' worth sings to us the reverie of Poor Susan, ' when Kingsley shows us Alton Locke gazing... | |
 | George Eliot - 1894 - 426 pages
...great artist can give, surprises even the trivial and the selfish into that attention to what is apart from themselves, which may be called the raw material...gate which leads from the highway into the first wood he ever saw ; when Hornung paints a group of chimney-sweepers, more is done towards linking the... | |
 | Alexander Nicolas De Menil - 1897 - 572 pages
...great artist can give, surprises even the trivial and selfish into that attention to what is apart from themselves, which may be called the raw material...gate which leads from the highway into the first wood he ever saw, when Hornung paints a group of chimney-sweepers, more is done towards linking... | |
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