George Eliot and Thomas Hardy: A ContrastM. Kennerley, 1917 - 174 pages |
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... achievements , but without a rational foundation it degenerates into an aimless un- rest which is doomed to futility . Under the formative influence of the nineteenth century this idealism has abolished slavery and re- formed prisons ...
... achievements , but without a rational foundation it degenerates into an aimless un- rest which is doomed to futility . Under the formative influence of the nineteenth century this idealism has abolished slavery and re- formed prisons ...
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... sought - after " cross - section of life , " the modern critic must admit that George El- iot has fairly met him . Indeed , the accuracy and minuteness of her achievements are sur- prising . Sometimes RATIONAL IDEALISM 11.
... sought - after " cross - section of life , " the modern critic must admit that George El- iot has fairly met him . Indeed , the accuracy and minuteness of her achievements are sur- prising . Sometimes RATIONAL IDEALISM 11.
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... achievement to which no intrinsic merit entitles them . As a rule the most that litera- ture can do is to stimulate effort along spe- cial lines of its own choosing . George Eliot stands in a central position be- tween the two streams ...
... achievement to which no intrinsic merit entitles them . As a rule the most that litera- ture can do is to stimulate effort along spe- cial lines of its own choosing . George Eliot stands in a central position be- tween the two streams ...
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... achievement . The question may fairly be raised : What has the generation which has succeeded George Eliot's done to carry on the ideal ? The an- swer is not easy . We stand in the middle of a confused tangle of contradictory develop ...
... achievement . The question may fairly be raised : What has the generation which has succeeded George Eliot's done to carry on the ideal ? The an- swer is not easy . We stand in the middle of a confused tangle of contradictory develop ...
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... achievement in Becky Sharp , must bear the same criticism . In view of all this , it is small wonder that neither George Eliot nor Thomas Hardy should succeed especially notably in the repre- sentation of both men and women . Of her ...
... achievement in Becky Sharp , must bear the same criticism . In view of all this , it is small wonder that neither George Eliot nor Thomas Hardy should succeed especially notably in the repre- sentation of both men and women . Of her ...
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Page 162 - All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful Past. Let us alone. What pleasure can we have To war with evil? Is there any peace In ever climbing up the climbing wave? All things have rest, and ripen toward the grave In silence ; ripen, fall and cease : Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease.
Page 66 - She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.
Page 72 - Many Theresas have been born who found for themselves no epic life wherein there was a constant unfolding of far-resonant action ; perhaps only a life of mistakes, the offspring of a certain spiritual grandeur ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity ; perhaps a tragic failure which found no sacred poet and sank unwept into oblivion.
Page 103 - There was a man to whom I was very near, so that I could see a great deal of his life, who made almost every one fond of him, for he was young, and clever, and beautiful, and his manners to all were gentle and kind. I believe , when I first knew him , he never thought of doing anything cruel or base.
Page 145 - Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement.
Page 118 - Nothing in the world more subtle than the process of their gradual change! In the beginning they inhaled it unknowingly : you and I may have sent some of our breath toward infecting them, when we uttered our conforming falsities or drew our silly conclusions : or perhaps it came with the vibrations from a woman's glance.
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Page 73 - A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills : to know that high initiation, she must often tread where it is hard to tread, and feel the chill air, and watch through darkness. It is not true that love makes all things easy: it makes us choose what is difficult.