Religious and Moral Ideas in the Novels of George EliotUniversity of Wisconsin--Madison, 1963 - 398 pages |
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Page 94
... evil are found mixed on such a scale can hardly be considered in a state of lifeless inertness . Its [ of England of the times } want cannot be of themes and interest , but rather of those able to seize what lies before them and turn it ...
... evil are found mixed on such a scale can hardly be considered in a state of lifeless inertness . Its [ of England of the times } want cannot be of themes and interest , but rather of those able to seize what lies before them and turn it ...
Page 144
... evil deed , recoiling on the doer , starts off that process of deterioration in which the distinctions of good and evil tend to be obliterated and all one's values are turned upside down : There is a terrible coercion in our deeds ...
... evil deed , recoiling on the doer , starts off that process of deterioration in which the distinctions of good and evil tend to be obliterated and all one's values are turned upside down : There is a terrible coercion in our deeds ...
Page 191
... evil widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with " 52 darkness narrower . - George Eliot thus made an attempt to find out the truths above the human struggles . Below the apparently untroubled surface of life she saw ...
... evil widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with " 52 darkness narrower . - George Eliot thus made an attempt to find out the truths above the human struggles . Below the apparently untroubled surface of life she saw ...
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